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Environment - Approved Panel Minutes - 25 January 2007

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Environment Scrutiny Panel Meeting No. 39

25thJanuary 2007 Le Capelain Room

Present Deputy R.C. Duhamel (Chairman) (RD)

Deputy G.C.L. Baudains (Vice Chairman) (GB) Connétable K. A. Le Brun of St Mary (KB) Deputy S. Power (SP)

Apologies Deputy R. Le Hérissier (RLH)

In attendance M. Robbins, Scrutiny Officer (MR)

Time Started 09.05 am

 

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Minutes

The minutes of the 11th January 2007 were confirmed and signed. RD. GB. KB.

 

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Item 8 11.01.07

Integrated Travel and Transport Plan -

The  Chairman  reported  that  the  Panel  had  met  informally  and discussed the Integrated Travel and Transport Plan. This was work in progress for continuation at a date to be determined.

RD.GB.KB.

 

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Item 9 11.01.07

Business Plans 2007

The Panel noted that there was some confusion from the Ministers about the involvement the Panel in the production of the business plans.  A  request  had  initially  been  received  for  the  Panel  to  be involved but then a letter had been received by Deputy Duhamel from the Chief Minister F. H. Walker stating that Scrutiny could not be involved  in  the  early  stages  of  the  production  as  the  Council  of Ministers needed to work behind closed doors. There was concern amongst  the  Panel  that  documents  from  B  Agenda  items  of  the Council of Ministers meetings were being withheld from Scrutiny. The Panel agreed that it should be more robust in requiring these documents in the future.

It was agreed that the meeting on 22nd January 2007 with Senator Cohen, Minister for Planning and Environment, had been successful and that the Minister and the Panel worked well together having similar thoughts on many issues.

The meeting at 10 am on 2nd February 2007 with the Minister for Transport  and  Technical  Services,   Deputy  G.W.J.  de  Faye,  was

noted.

The Panel noted that issues such as transport and regeneration were very  connected  across  the  two  departments  but  there  were  no interdepartmental connections within the plans. The Panel agreed to work up a prioritised list of issues to look at and to return to the Ministers when this had been done

RD.GB.KB. SP(Part of item)

MR

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Design of Homes

 

Item 3 07.12.06

The Panel debated the request for finance to cover an electronic survey  and  confirmed  its  decision  of  7th  December  2006  not  to authorise the funds for this.

It was noted that due to the drafting of the report on the waste review and the agreed temporary transfer of an officer to the Health, Social Security and Housing Panel's telephone mast review, there was no officer support available to work on the Design of Homes Review at present.

RD.GB.KB. SP

 

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Item 6 11.01.06

Waste.

The first section of the Waste report was being drafted. Invitations for companies to attend an exhibition to launch the review report were to be sent shortly. Dates for this were to be arranged to give sufficient notice for States Members to place the event in their diaries.

The Panel expressed some concern about an article in the Jersey Evening Post on 24th January 2007 stating that the Panel did not want an Energy from Waste Plant. This was not a true representation of the views of the Panel which accepted that there was a need for a plant of some type to deal with the residual waste stream. The Panel accepted that the article was unrepresentative of what was actually said.

The Zero Waste report was in final draft and could be expected imminently.

RD.GB.KB. SP

MR

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Date of Next Meeting.

The Panel noted that there was a meeting at 10 am on Friday 2nd February 2007 in the Blampied Room with the Minister for Transport

and  Technical  Services,   Deputy  G.W.J.  de  Faye  to  discuss  that Department's business plan for 2007. The next Panel meeting would

be at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday 8th February 2007 in the Le Capelain Room.

RD.GB.KB. SP

 

Signed Date

.. Chairman, Environment Panel