Air Pollution

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 15 June 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:38, 15 June 2021

Llywydd, I will make a statement on the legislative programme before the summer break. It will set out our plans for legislation. It will inevitably have to attend to the continuing constraints that coronavirus places on us and the demands that it makes on our legislative services. We have not finished yet with Brexit legislation, which the Senedd will have to find a way of dealing with. But, nevertheless, I will set out the legislative programme. It will include our ambition to bring forward a clean air Bill for debate in the Senedd. And Delyth Jewell is right, Llywydd, that monitoring is an essential part of the way in which we can identify clean air difficulties, and then marshall a response to them, as my colleague Lesley Griffiths did in relation to Hafodyrynys, confirming the plans that Caerphilly County Borough Council put forward to us and funding them in full. So, the record of this Government in dealing with those clean air hotspots, where monitoring has identified them, I think stands up very clearly to examination.