Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the total cost of managing Wales’s coal tips following the initial estimate figure of £600 million being based on limited information available at the time?
Answered by Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs | Answered on 24/04/2025
Welsh Government has already committed to taking forward this work, in response to Recommendation 7 of the Senedd Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee’s Report on the Restoration of Opencast Sites. We will publicise the updated figure in due course, once it has been calculated.