1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Are you therefore trying, to the best of your ability, to align both of those things?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
I'm going to turn to two different subjects, which are performance monitoring and risk management. So, to start with the first one, you produced a draft of the national performance framework earlier last year. The final plan was supposed to be published last…
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Experience, as they are working in the field. Because they're experts, is that perhaps more than just anecdotal evidence?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Just on that final point, I'm trying to remember, and perhaps fellow Members or the clerks can confirm, but the LABC confirmed that their impression was that surpluses were being used for broader purposes, didn't they?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes, if that is possible as well, in terms of this information, and the evaluation report that we will receive in due course.
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes, there is a lot of detailed information here, Chair, but what I want to suggest is that we do return to this subject, and accepting advice on this new information, but also in the wake of receiving the full evaluation report from the development bank…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Women in politics suffer this abuse disproportionately, and, 12 years ago, Bolivia became the first country in the world to create a specific offence of abuse against women in politics, and that's been copied in four Latin American countries. We couldn't…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you, Llywydd. Has the Counsel General seen the results of the survey of MSs and MPs by ITV Wales, which shows that, amongst those who responded, 76 per cent said they had felt unsafe as a result of the abuse that they have received, and 31 per cent have…
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
—we'll pause.
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
Okay. I think that, at that point—
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
One of the other exercises, Exercise Taliesin—I don't know if you're familiar with that—you two talked about a whole-societal approach. That does actually talk, doesn't it, about school closures and managing that, so, certainly, at that exercise level, there…
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
Yes, the national stockpiles. There was a Welsh national stockpile, wasn't there, managed by the UK Government, but they were separate, as I understand.
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
One of the recommendations from the 2016 debrief related to the national stock in terms of personal protective equipment, I think, and the need to maintain that. There were, subsequently—. The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group had…
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
And, again, for that excercise that did focus on a coronavirus, was there a Wales-specific debrief? And, the recommendations, did they flow into changes in terms of the policy framework too?
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
There were other relevant exercises, weren't there? You mentioned that one of the key themes has been the emphasis on influenza to the exclusion of other possibilities. There was one exercise on a coronavirus, wasn't there?
30 January 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
I'd like to turn the clock back now to the period running up to the pandemic. I don't know how familiar you are with the actual Welsh plans and documents and the evidence that has been presented so far. You mentioned the exercises and the various exercises…
30 January 2024 , Plenary
The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
I'll think better next time, Darren, before accepting a second intervention. Look, when you have to have a two-thirds majority in this place, to get that level of change, that can only happen at a political level, where you have parties working together…
30 January 2024 , Plenary
The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
I've taken one, Darren. Oh, go on, then.
30 January 2024 , Plenary
The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
So, does that mean—breaking news—that there's actually going to be a referendum on the changes to the electoral system for the mayor of London, or for the police and crime commissioners happening in May? Where was the—? There's no consistency, Darren, in the…
30 January 2024 , Plenary
The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
I'll happily give way to Tom Giffard, if he wants to come back. Well, okay, I'll be generous, Darren, seeing as it's you.
30 January 2024 , Plenary
The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
Since you didn't take an intervention, I'll say what everyone else wanted to say. You basically decided to give us these powers. You had the opportunity—your party in Government—to decide to make it conditional on a referendum; you chose not to do that. And…
30 January 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Wales is a land of commissions, as the commission says. But it does suggest, doesn't it, the need for something more durable, more permanent than simply a series of commissions over the years if we are to continuously improve our democratic health. In its…
30 January 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
May I think the First Minister for his statement this afternoon, and also for his leadership in ensuring that the commission came into existence and has contributed in the important way that it has already, but also for the inclusive and open spirit that both…
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
If so, is one of the alternative ways of meeting that same objective—. I'm not saying that you agree with this, but rather than doing it through this piece of legislation, one could use this mandatory or compulsory route. That is, you make it compulsory, and…
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Just to come back to that, what would you say to those who would argue that this is akin to the requirements in the curriculum for some of those mandatory elements—for example, physical education, and there are other examples too, aren't there—namely, that…
