, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
We don't have time to go into the Welsh language education Act just mentioned by the Minister, but I'd like to know what he has in mind. So, I'd like to ask the Minister to write to the committee with details of any proposed Bill, and I'd like to know…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Okay. In launching the programme publicly, we were clear that the target of 'Cymraeg 2050' was a target to change things, and to change things within Government too. What I didn't say publicly at the time—I didn't feel that as Minister I could say this—was…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I'm pleased to hear that. The second thing I wanted to return to—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I don't want to spend the whole morning on this, but I don't think that the kind of commission you've described in answering this question is one that will contribute what we need in terms of language planning at the moment, but perhaps we could return to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
How will you do that?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
So, you don't see any broader role for Government in promoting the use of the Welsh language.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Well, yes, that's semantics—a group of people doing language planning.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you for that. That's a great help. So, you see this commission as a language planning body.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you for that. You haven't answered the question in full, but I won't pursue it any further. But what struck me in the work programme is that you have areas of action—I'm reading this in English. The first area of action here is establishing and…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I agree with that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Chair and thank you, Minister. I welcomed your appointment. It's difficult, as a former Minister, when you see those succeeding you, but I have been impressed with the way in which you've been speaking following your appointment and prior to your…
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Shared Prosperity Fund and Levelling-up Fund
And I'll finish with this, if you'll be kind. What I can see is that they are repeating the mistakes of the past, and not learning the lessons of the past.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Shared Prosperity Fund and Levelling-up Fund
I'm grateful to you, Minister, for the statement. I've found the process of the last few years deeply and profoundly disappointing. When I was first elected to this place, and when I joined the Welsh Government for the first time, we had a good and cordial…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'm sure it wasn't. Not this time, no. [Laughter.] Minister, I asked, last week, for a statement on civil contingencies. Since last week's business statement, of course, we've seen further chaos across Wales, and constituents have been telling me that people…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much, First Minister. It was good to see you visiting Ciner in Ebbw Vale and looking at the potential of that £350 million investment taking place in the constituency, and good, then, the following day, to see Vaughan Gething continuing a close…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. Will the First Minister make a statement on the Welsh Government's economic development initiatives in the south Wales valleys? OQ56899
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Minister, can we make time for Government to bring forward a debate on civil contingencies and emergency preparedness? Over the last few months, the catastrophe of Brexit has hit home to many people. The farming community have been telling us about the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Access to defibrillators
—us not just to save life, but to actually invest in the future of life as well. I hope that Members across the Chamber will come together and vote for this this afternoon, and will support the private legislation that I hope to put forward in this Senedd, to…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Access to defibrillators
I'm grateful to you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm grateful to the Welsh Conservatives as well for bringing this debate to the Senedd at the beginning of this new term, and I'm grateful for the kind words we've just heard. In terms of where we are, the speech…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I'm grateful to you for that response, Minister. I think on this side of the Chamber we certainly don't think that Wales gets anything like its fair share of resources and funding from the current United Kingdom Government. But in terms of how we spend our…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
4. Will the Minister make a statement on the budget allocated to delivering strategic and economic development planning in south-east Wales? OQ56829
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Economy and Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport and Chief Whip
Thank you. You were answering, Mr Thomas, in the previous question, about financial penalties. I would hope that the Welsh Government would impose financial penalties, quite frankly. The Welsh Government is the elected Government of this country, and these…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Economy and Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport and Chief Whip
I'm trying to tie you down, sorry, on the timescale for this. I accept what the contents are. But, the timescale will be prior to the new financial year, so we can anticipate those remit letters being sent out in February or March of next year, and I presume…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Economy and Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport and Chief Whip
Okay. So, for clarity, there will be measurable objectives and measurable targets for each one of the sponsored bodies. That will be contained in their remit letters, which I presume will be sent on a financial year basis—so, will be sent in March next year.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Economy and Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport and Chief Whip
Is that 'yes'?
