9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Cydraddoldeb a hawliau dynol
I thank Laura Anne Jones for those two questions, Chair. I probably should have said in answering an earlier question about the human rights advisory group and the way they're taking forward the research report is that it also offers us an opportunity to…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, Chair, making advances in the current climate has been very difficult. The Thomas commission has a whole series of recommendations that are for the Welsh Government and Welsh authorities to take forward, and we are making progress on those, and we…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Chair, I just lost the very end of Jack Sargeant's question, but I think I'd heard the full gist of it. Of course, we have invested considerably more money in the single advice fund, and there is always more we know that we could do if we had more money…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, Chair, first of all let me say that the Welsh Government does do whatever we can in these areas. I spoke earlier about the millions of pounds we invested in making sure that EU citizens had access to properly qualified advice to help them with the…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Chair, the first thing I would say is that a more equal response doesn't mean treating everybody the same, because groups of people who arrive in the United Kingdom come here from very different contexts, and you need to be able to calibrate a response to…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, we have made an assessment, Chair, and, unsurprisingly, given the discussions that we've had on the floor of the Senedd on this matter, we believe that the Nationality and Borders Act will have a detrimental impact upon on our ambitions to be, as John…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Wel, Cadeirydd, diolch yn fawr i Llyr Gruffydd am y cwestiynau. Ar yr un cyntaf, wrth gwrs, rŷn ni eisiau gwneud mwy i dynnu sylw at y ffaith y bydd rhaid i bobl gyda pre-settled status wneud cais arall i aros yma yng Nghymru. Mae'r sefyllfa ddim cweit yr un…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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I've had two conversations with the new Prime Minister, and Ukraine was certainly touched upon in the second of those meetings and in the council of Ministers that the new Prime Minister chaired as part of the new inter-governmental relations machinery. We…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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First of all, Chair, just to be as accurate as I can, it isn't really in the capacity of the Welsh Government to ensure that outcome, and it's not actually our responsibility to do it at all; this remains a responsibility of the UK Government and the Home…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, first of all, Chair, to recognise that there is always work that we need to do to improve the impact assessments that go alongside major policy developments and legislation, and the recently published report of the Auditor General for Wales is very…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, no. I just want to be clear: the only way we would have that capacity is by making choices. There's no spare capacity sitting around waiting to do this. There is a capacity there already and, as I said, it has demonstrated its capability, but if the…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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The capacity comes in two main ways, Chair. I probably will ask Claire to set out for you some of the new arrangements regarding the way the civil service that works with the Welsh Government on this has been structured to support it. The two basic strands…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Amongst the additional strands that the group that is helping us are looking at will be older persons' rights. I met with the Older People's Commissioner for Wales in the last couple of weeks, alongside the publication of her annual report. She has a strong…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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I understand the basic point that is being made, but I probably don't see the argument in quite the same way. If the argument is that by helping some people, where other people aren't getting helped, that somehow that's a denial of rights to people not being…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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I thank Peter Fox for that. There is a bit of history here that I'll very briefly rehearse for colleagues. In the final part of the last Senedd term we established a group to give us some advice on all of this, to review the different conventions and how they…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Oh, I wish I did. As I think you indicated, Chair, in an earlier question, the UK Government doesn't always speak with a single voice on lots of these things. There are messages that come out of Whitehall that what is planned is a transposition into domestic…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, Chair, here I think it probably does depend upon—. Sorry to sound as though I'm back in an academic seminar, but it depends what we mean by human rights. So, if what Jenny Rathbone means is the broad swathe of consumer rights, environmental rights…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, on one level, Chair, I think you could argue that it shouldn't have much of an impact. The Human Rights Act 1998 is not contingent upon membership of the European Union; it comes from the 1951 convention that the United Kingdom was a founding signatory…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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We continue to work with the Scottish Government, Chair, on potential amendments to any Bill. I don't think I could say that we got an indication from Lord Bellamy on that issue, because, as I say, I don't think he was in a strong position to explain to us…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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Well, Chair, thank you. We've had a succession of contacts with the UK Government on this subject. I myself took the very first phone call on it, which was a call from the Deputy Prime Minister at the time, Dominic Raab, who was responsible for the…
9 Rhagfyr 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
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So, Chair, I'm joined for this session by Stuart Evans and by Claire Bennett, who are the deputy director and the director in the part of the Welsh Government that covers the material we will be talking about this morning.
6 Rhagfyr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Llywydd, dim ond i fod yn glir, er mwyn cywirdeb, £18 miliwn oedd benthyciad Llywodraeth Cymru, ac roedd gyda Undeb Rygbi Cymru, nid gyda'r rhanbarthau. Mae'r ffordd y mae'r arian yn cael ei ddefnyddio yn benderfyniad i Undeb Rygbi Cymru, a nhw sy'n gyfrifol…
6 Rhagfyr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Llywydd, caiff gwerth iechyd, cymdeithasol ac economaidd chwaraeon ei gydnabod yn eang, a dyna pam yr ydym ni'n buddsoddi mwy na £75 miliwn yn ystod y tair blynedd nesaf, drwy Chwaraeon Cymru, i gyflawni ein nodau a'n hamcanion cyffredin.
6 Rhagfyr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Wel, Llywydd, a gaf i gyntaf oll gytuno â'r hyn y dywedodd Luke Fletcher am y cyhoeddiad siomedig iawn yr wythnos diwethaf? Rwyf i wedi dadlau fy hun ers tro bod angen rhywbeth tebyg i Ddeddf Ail-fuddsoddi Cymunedol 1977 yr Unol Daleithiau, a fyddai'n gorfodi…
6 Rhagfyr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Llywydd, fel yr eglurais i ar lawr y Senedd yr wythnos diwethaf, nid yw'r cyfrifoldeb dros wasanaethau ariannol, gan gynnwys bancio, wedi'i ddatganoli i'r Senedd. Er na all Llywodraeth Cymru, felly, sicrhau bod banciau ar gael, rydym ni'n gweithio gyda'r rhai…
