31 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Yes—I understand the structure. I'm talking about how they work together.
31 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
My experience as a constituency Member is that there is a gap between the two. The Government says one thing about supporting a business or businesses in Blaenau Gwent, and then the bank says something different. And I see a clash there from an individual…
31 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
But the relationship between the two is the question.
31 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Yes, thank you, Chair. I was interested in what you were saying, Dylan, about the relationship between finance and the business support work by Welsh Government. I take it that the relationship between the Government and the bank is an extremely important…
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
When I spoke of compromise, my compromise wasn't about achieving a supermajority; it was about recognising that good comrades and friends and colleagues, both in this party and other parties, felt powerfully but differently. And it wasn't about 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
Will you take an intervention?
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
Okay. What we're doing is entrenching and deepening democracy, and that is important. What is happening in London is a democracy that is being undermined by the creation of unelected peers on the basis of donations to the Conservative Party. That is a…
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
Our report also drew attention to other issues with these sections. For example, on section 7, we noted that there is no guarantee the policy development work undertaken by a committee—work that, in the main, is a matter for Government—will be implemented by…
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'm grateful to you, Presiding Officer. Like other Members, I'd like to start by thanking the staff and the secretariat of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee for the work they did in bringing forward this report. For the record, and for those…
30 January 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Holocaust Memorial Day
The 'fragility of freedom' is a remarkably powerful statement. The fragility of humanity was something that I reflected upon a few weeks ago in Dachau concentration camp, where you look around the normality of an industrial estate on the edge of Munich and…
30 January 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
I'm grateful to the First Minister for the statement this afternoon. It's a fascinating and a challenging document. It's a serious document that challenges all of us, including, dare I say, the Conservatives, to think seriously about these matters. And it…
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you.
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Okay. Would it be possible, Minister, for you to write to us—not in any detail, because I accept that some of these things are quite difficult—to outline the resources that the Government has expended in dealing with this application for legislation?
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you. I very much agree with the analysis you've given us this afternoon in terms of this piece of legislation. So, you have been in discussion with the Member in charge of the legislation. You outlined that in answer to one of our first questions. Do…
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Okay. Thank you. That's all.
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
May I ask a further question? You've touched on this already in response to James's questions. You will remember from your period as Counsel General that this committee doesn't deal with policy, but tries to deal in detail with the legislation itself, and the…
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Well, that was the next question I was going to ask you, Minister. I do believe that a new section 71A is being inserted into the current legislation, and that then requires that Welsh Ministers—I'm looking at the notes here—propose some things that would…
22 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you. I find myself in quite a difficult position here, because I agree with the Minister's analysis when it comes to this Bill. When looking at the code that the Bill insists that the Government introduces, you've analysed the implications of that very…
18 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Content. Thank you very much.
18 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
No, carry on. Everybody's very happy.
18 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
But how will you take that decision?
18 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
And I think all of us who have travelled to Germany, and met German politicians in recent years, have experienced that anxiety to maintain relationships and to build those relationships. And I'm grateful to you for that explanation, Minister; it's very…
18 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Of course there is.
18 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
So, it would be useful, therefore, Minister, if we were able to understand the actions that the Welsh Government are taking to help and support and to sustain the economic relationship, in its wider sense, between the two countries.
18 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Yes, yes. So, let's use Germany as an example to understand the approach the Government is taking, because it is a good example to use, and I think there's a year of Wales in Germany.
