Improving the Environment around the Assembly

Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:14 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Julie Morgan Julie Morgan Labour 3:14, 14 November 2018

I thank the Llywydd for that response. Last month I attended the event to launch the Commission's annual environment report and I was thrilled to be taken to the roof of the Pierhead building to see the two beehives the Commission has installed there in partnership with Cardiff University, whose aim is to make Cardiff the UK's first bee-friendly city. So, that's fantastic that we're contributing to that from here.

But one of the issues raised with me was the lack of bee-friendly plants around the Assembly estate, and I wondered if the Commission could consider some of the land that is not used and may not belong to us, but is actually surrounding this building—whether some sort of bee-friendly flowers or plants could be planted there. There was a scheme a couple of years ago to plant in the car park. There was an area of the car park, and staff took part in that and did it in their lunch hours and tended the flowers. So, I just wondered if that was something we could look at, particularly in view of the fact of this wonderful progress—this wonderful project of having the bees.