2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:17 pm on 18 June 2019.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 3:17, 18 June 2019

Trefnydd, can I first concur with the earlier comments made by my colleague Suzy Davies as regards the document amending the Government of Wales Act 2006 not being available on the Welsh Government website? As a Member of the Finance Committee, I have access to it, but I think it is helpful if it's available to a wider audience.

Secondly, last week, we had the important debate on plastics and how we might seek to minimise our reliance on plastics. I know that the Welsh Government did respond to that debate, but I wonder if we could have, well, a strategy and maybe regular or semi-regular updates on what Welsh Government is doing to try and tackle this problem. I think if we all do try to take the issue head on then perhaps we can get somewhere over the medium term. Could we have a statement on how any strategy would incorporate the local dimension? I think that there's a lot of good work and a lot of good practice going on out there on a local level that we don't always hear about. I heard last week about an initiative from Raglan Dairy in my constituency, which is a local milk supplier that is seeking to get—or has actually got—the contract with a lot of primary schools in Monmouthshire to replace plastic bottles with conventional bottles. They've made a huge difference over just a year. I think that there are probably other examples, other companies, doing similar out there, and we could have a bottom-up approach, whereby we really do take that good practice and extend it across Wales.

Finally, Llywydd, I'm sure you want to join me in congratulating Usk school ski team, managed by local councillor Sara Jones, who have won silver and bronze medals in a recent competition—that's for girls and boys, respectively—and are very pleased and let me know about their success. I'm sure the Assembly would also like to congratulate them too.