8. Supplementary Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:23 pm on 2 November 2021.

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Photo of Rhys ab Owen Rhys ab Owen Plaid Cymru 6:23, 2 November 2021

At the end of her letter, the Minister expresses her commitment to the Sewel convention and giving the Senedd the opportunity to scrutinise and vote on any new provisions in a UK Bill. Minister, a take-it-or-leave-it vote without hardly any notice or scrutiny is not good enough. A quarter-of-an-hour debate in a graveyard shift on a Tuesday evening is simply not good enough. As the constitution committee said in a report earlier this year, Members of the Senedd should have the ability to hear expert evidence, listen to the views of stakeholders in Wales, and through that, ourselves, table amendments to test, challenge and scrutinise the Welsh Ministers. This has not happened. That is what scrutiny is about, and that has not happened with this Bill here. Plaid Cymru will be voting against this supplementary LCM.