Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 3. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 3:17 pm on 11 December 2018.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 3:17, 11 December 2018

Well, that is a bitterly disappointing answer, given that I could understand that type of answer coming to me maybe a month, two months, perhaps three months after you initially stated your position, but some eight months on you are still trotting out that answer. Now, I did have a written reply from the Minister yesterday indicating that there were legal considerations that the Government are working through at the moment. Can you at least give us an indication—and I'm not looking for the legal advice that you were given, because I appreciate that you can't give us that, but could you at least give us some of the areas that that legal advice is referring to? And is it specific to Natural Resources Wales, who are your advisers on this matter, or is it wider planning issues that that legal advice has been taken on?

I do believe—and I hope you agree with me—that the residents of Barry require some greater clarity than the answers that I've received from you on two occasions now out of three, and I do hope that, as we break for Christmas now in the coming days, you can give me and other Members some confidence that we are within touching distance of a decision.