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Speeches by Rhodes.

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27 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 667)

You mentioned about working with other Departments. On achieving the ambitious targets of the NDC, a lot of policy areas will have devolved areas with the devolved nations and Administrations of the UK. How are you working with them to ensure that we put together the plan to deliver on this ambitious set of targets?

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27 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 667)

How do you plan to ensure that those plans align with the UK’s domestic and international goals on biodiversity and nature?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

I mean primarily financially in terms of if we are not putting enough money in at the moment where would you say the priorities are for extra money?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

My next question is moving on from the finances to the governance. One of the things that was mentioned in the discussion with the previous panel was the idea of bringing together agencies in terms of having an agency that was dealing with a whole range of issues around flooding resilience in terms of monitoring, forec

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Before I move on, so you would see more merit in the idea of greater co-ordination maybe at a regional level in terms of co-ordinating the different bodies rather than creating a super body, as you put it?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

A question around resources is: do we have enough resources at the moment in terms of resilience measures, and if the answer is no, where are the pinch points, where are the problems in terms of funding? If there was one thing you would pick out that needs extra resources what would it be? I will put that to all of you

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thank you, Chair. I will try to be quite quick in terms of the question and if you can keep your answers fairly short as well, so I do not fall out with the Chair for dragging the meeting on any longer than need be.

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22 Jan 2025“Make Work Pay” Initiative

In 2023, the Low Pay Commission estimated that approximately 13,500 employees who lived in Glasgow were paid at or below the relevant minimum wage—4.8% of all employees living in the city. What assessment has the Minister made of the impact of the Government’s “Make Work Pay” initiative for those workers and others in

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22 Jan 2025“Make Work Pay” Initiative

4. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the “Make Work Pay” initiative on workers in Scotland.

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thank you. Professor Hall?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thank you. Professor Naylor?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Professor McDonagh?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thank you. Dr Sayers?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thanks. Professor Naylor?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Before I move on, so you would see more merit in the idea of greater co-ordination maybe at a regional level in terms of co-ordinating the different bodies rather than creating a super body, as you put it?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

My next question is moving on from the finances to the governance. One of the things that was mentioned in the discussion with the previous panel was the idea of bringing together agencies in terms of having an agency that was dealing with a whole range of issues around flooding resilience in terms of monitoring, forec

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thanks. Professor Naylor?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thank you. Dr Sayers?

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

Thank you, Chair. I will try to be quite quick in terms of the question and if you can keep your answers fairly short as well, so I do not fall out with the Chair for dragging the meeting on any longer than need be.

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22 Jan 2025Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 550)

A question around resources is: do we have enough resources at the moment in terms of resilience measures, and if the answer is no, where are the pinch points, where are the problems in terms of funding? If there was one thing you would pick out that needs extra resources what would it be? I will put that to all of you

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