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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy Priorities
I welcome the opposition spokesperson, the Labour spokesperson, to her post as well, and I look forward to engaging in detail on all of the issues that she raised. I think that it's important to bring us back, isn't it, to the focus of today, which is the…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy Priorities
Well, could I first of all congratulate the Member on his appointment to this important opposition position? I look forward to engaging with him, both in the course of scrutiny in this Chamber, but also more widely as well. There is no monopoly on good ideas…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy Priorities
Partnership will be critical at every level. We will work closely with businesses, who understand the barriers to growth in real time. We will identify the barriers firms face, assign clear responsibility for resolving them, and ensure that they are addressed…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy Priorities
This is not about lowering standards, it's about improving how the Government and its partners work, being clearer about priorities and faster in decision making to join up the systems on which businesses depend. A key challenge we must address is business…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy Priorities
That's why this Government is placing productivity at the heart of its approach. Productivity is the foundation of long-term prosperity. It underpins wages, living standards and competitiveness. Today, Wales continues to lag behind, with productivity around…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy Priorities
Thank you very much, Llywydd. Wales is open for business. We are a nation with considerable economic strengths. Across our country, we see thriving enterprises, globally competitive industries, strong universities, a highly skilled workforce, and real…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
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, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
I have no further questions, so thank you very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Could I turn very briefly to the theme of community cohesion? How did the Welsh Government work with the Vale of Glamorgan Council, because this had been brought up specifically in the Senedd, to develop housing for Ukrainians on the former primary school…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Rent Smart Wales landlords, some of them—. The training for those landlords under Rent Smart Wales had been rated red in the progress update regarding the nation of sanctuary policy. What was the impact of the delivery delay in terms of providing this…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
What is the latest position regarding the travel scheme and why was there a hiatus between the scheme being brought to an end and a new scheme being put in its place?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Because of a lack of time, maybe could we have some brief answers. I know that this is a broad-ranging area. In the context of this review of the nation of sanctuary policy, how have lessons from the response to the situation in Ukraine informed that review?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to turn now to the broader policy of the nation of sanctuary, which you've referred to already. I just would like to ask how the Welsh Government has built on the progress update that was published in early 2024. That is, given that…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
I’d like to just put on public record, in the wake of the response from David Richards, that it’s obvious to me that the ministerial code, in its current form, is not fit for purpose, and it is necessary to have a new framework. Even compared with the code in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Thank you for that. If I could come back, just to ask would—looking forward, of course, to reading the work that the auditor was referring to. I wonder if there was a way of looking at the work that the National Audit Office had undertaken about 15 years ago…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Thank you, Chair. I agree basically with the point that Mike Hedges made about the need for transparency. I think that that would be a great help to us as Members of the Senedd and as committees in terms of scrutiny, but also help with the broader public…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
As you're aware, Chair, I won't be taking part in the part of the meeting and our deliberations on the Commission. So, I just wanted to put that on the record, and that that will be reflected in the Record of Proceedings.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I'm grateful to the Cabinet Secretary for her response. There is a dire need in terms of homelessness and social housing in the Ammanford and the Amman Valley area. For example, there are around 400 people on the council’s housing waiting list in Ammanford…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
3. What support does the Welsh Government offer to organisations that convert empty commercial property into residential houses? OQ61799
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales
I welcome the tacit admission in your statement of a situation where increasingly teachers are fearful for their physical safety and indeed their mental health, facing a torrent of abuse and violence in many situations. But what you're suggesting so far I…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Plaid Cymru welcomes the principles behind the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, which seeks to transition franchised passenger railway services, as we've heard, from private to public ownership, which is a long-standing policy goal for us…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
The question is, of course: whatever the process, consultation or not, have they been relieved of the responsibility to pay Welsh taxes in relation to their holdings and properties in Wales? If you don't know the answer now, perhaps you could write to me and…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
The Welsh Government currently is paying rent to the Crown Estate, so I would urge you to take the same moral stance that Gwynedd and hopefully Carmarthenshire will do. In terms of The Sunday Times and Dispatches report, it did demonstrate that the duchies of…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. Counsel General, you will be aware of the reports of the past few days that show the significant money being made by the royal family through the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster from the public sector, and also, of course, the…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 11
Thank you very much.
