Mick Bates has been elected chair
of the National Assembly′s new Sustainability committee. The
Montgomeryshire AM, who is also a farmer in Llanfair Caereinon,
was elected unopposed.
Commenting Mick said: “It is a great honour to be
elected chair of the committee. Sustainability has been a life long
passion of mine and one of the main reasons I got involved in
politics.
“It is a particular honour to chair this
committee with the Assemblies new powers. Under new rules there are
only four subject committees. They are designed to scrutinise
government activity and make sure the people of Wales get the best
possible deal out of the Ministers that run the country. The
sustainability committee will be doing just this. As chair I will be
ambitious to scrutinise all who have power over events in Wales.
“The committee will also scrutinise and make
recommendations on a broad range of areas, from energy production
and waste management to farming and countryside. It will set up a
sub-on rural development to address challenges to rural Wales.
“It’s a pretty exciting committee to sit on, and
an even more exciting committee to chair. I look forward to working
with AM’s from all parties, as well as representatives from
organisations outside the Assembly and the general public to really
get stuck in to the issues. We are the first scrutiny committee to
meet and next week will announce our first lines of enquiry.
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