Llyr Gruffydd MS Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability
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Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability
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Responsibilities
- Cross-cutting measures of mitigation and adaptation in relation to climate change, including water; land drainage; flood and coastal risk; and control of marine and air pollution
- Net Zero, climate change, emission reduction targets and carbon budgets
- Natural Resources Management, including oversight and implementation of the Environment (Wales) Act and Natural Resources Wales
- Water
- Forestry policy and legislation, including re-stocking, tree health and forest reproductive material and the National Forest
- Marine and freshwater planning, biodiversity, conservation and licencing
- Biodiversity policy, including the implementation of the Nature Recovery Plan
- Sustainable resource and waste management
- Local environment quality, including Noise policy, litter, fly-tipping, Deposit Return Scheme and Extended Producer Responsibility
- The protection and management of wildlife, including control of pests, injurious weeds and vermin and the regulation of plant health, seeds and pesticides
- Reservoir Safety
- Strategic lead on allotments and urban green infrastructure
- Community Green Spaces and common land
- Access to the countryside, coast, rights of way and waterways/bodies of water
- National Parks & Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- REACH and Chemical policy
- Coal tip safety
- Opencast mine restoration
- Sustainability of rural communities
- Rural proofing
- Supporting Agriculture – food security, economic, social
- Sustainable Farming Scheme
- Agriculture sector development, including wages and skills
- Rural Development Programme
- Best and most versatile land policy, advice on mineral site restoration to an agricultural after-use, Agricultural Land Classification and implementation of the EIA (Agriculture) Regulations
- Young Entrants
- Animal health and welfare
- Bovine TB Eradication Plan
- Livestock identification and movement policy
- Holding registration policy
- Genetically modified crops
- Power to require provision of information about crop prices
- Inland, coastal and sea fisheries: policy regulation and enforcement, and the management of fishery harbours
- Circular economy
- Developing agri-food sector, associated supply chains, promotion and marketing of food and drink from Wales