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The Animal By-Products, Pet Passport and Animal Health (Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
I'm grateful to you, Deputy Presiding Officer. The committee considered these regulations on 26 June. Our report and the Welsh Government’s subsequent response are available on today’s order paper. Our report contains nine reporting points—five technical and…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Minister. 'Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised'. Bevan‘s words resonate down the decades. His vision is a rebuke to all those people who devalue the work of the national…
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Questions to the First Minister
7. Will the First Minister make a statement on the future of health services in Blaenau Gwent? OQ59781
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
That brings us to item 6, which is a motion under 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Do Members agree? If Members do agree, and Members are in agreement, then we will move into private session.
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Papers to note
I'll move on to item 5, papers to note. The first item is correspondence from the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee to the Minister for Economy on ministerial scrutiny. This correspondence follows the committee's scrutiny session with the Minister on…
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Inter-institutional relations agreement
Item 4, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement, and the first item here is item 4.1, correspondence from the Minister for Climate Change on the Transport and Works (Applications, Objections and Inquiries Procedure)…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
On that basis, are Members content? Members seem to be content. I'm grateful to you for that.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Item 3, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that have been previously considered. The first item here is SL(6)364, the Animal By-Products, Pet Passport and Animal Health (Fees) (Wales) (Amendment)…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
It's pretty disappointing. The committee's reported on these matters a number of times over the last few months. Is this something that we could bear in mind when the Counsel General is in front of the committee next week, to perhaps ask him about some of the…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you for that. And there are still five technical and merits reporting points.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
I'm grateful to you for that. Do Members have any observations to make? They don't. So, we confirm that we agree those reporting points. I'm grateful to you for that, Kate. Item 2.2 is the affirmative resolution instruments, and the item here is SL(6)363, the…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Item 2 is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. The first item we have today is SL(6)365, the Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2023. Kate, I can see you…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. Apologies have been received today from Huw Irranca-Davies, who is attending the EU-UK parliamentary assembly. We agreed at the committee meeting on 26 June that I would Chair…
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Topical Questions
People up and down Wales will have different views on the decisions of the Welsh Government, but one thing that unites people, from Anglesey through to Monmouthshire, is that we have the world's worst opposition. And if you want an example of poor opposition…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I very much welcome that. I welcome the statement that you made on diabetes treatment in Wales. There are 5,400 people in Blaenau Gwent who are living with diabetes, and that's not much less than 10 per cent of the population. It's an epidemic in the borough…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
2. What is the Welsh Government doing to improve support for people with diabetes in Blaenau Gwent? OQ59762
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
It is, and we're very grateful to you and the Government, Minister, for that, and grateful also for the work that the Government continues to do to alleviate the impact of the loss of businesses like Tillery Valley Foods. But we're aware also in Blaenau Gwent…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
5. What is the Welsh Government doing to support economic development in Blaenau Gwent? OQ59738
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Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Welsh Linguistic Infrastructure
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I welcome the statement and I'm pleased to hear the Minister making a clear statement, although I do have to admit I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I saw that there was to be a statement on Welsh linguistic…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Tribunal reform and Wales’s evolving justice landscape
—will be addressed.
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Tribunal reform and Wales’s evolving justice landscape
I'm grateful to you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I say how much I welcome the statement that's been made this afternoon and welcome the approach that the Counsel General is taking in these matters? I think there's going to be broad agreement across the…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
Thank you, First Minister. It was, in many ways, an inspiring statement, an inspiring statement that speaks not simply of a legislative agenda, but of our values and our ambitions and our visions for Wales. I think taking the profit out of children's care is…
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Questions to the First Minister
Of course, Lisa Nandy, you, First Minister, and I and everybody in this Chamber knows that this isn't an interest rate crisis; it's a Tory interest rate crisis, created as a consequence of a hard Brexit and economic mismanagement. We all saw—[Interruption.]…
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Papers to note
The only recommendation she unequivocally says she supports was a recommendation on the Welsh Government not the UK Government.
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Common frameworks
That's good to hear.