, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
UK-EU governance inquiry: Evidence session
'Better than nothing' sounds like a euphemism for a lot around Brexit. In terms of that legislature-to-legislature role, as parliamentarians you expect to have a grip on certain things. Sitting in the legislature you understand you're not in the executive and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
UK-EU governance inquiry: Evidence session
Thank you. I think we're all agreed on the importance of boredom and moving away from the circus that we've seen for too many years. I certainly agree with both of you on that. But there seems to be, sometimes, a vacuum, and that's less boring, if you like…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
UK-EU governance inquiry: Evidence session
Thank you, and thank you for your time today. We've debated the overall institutional architecture on a number of occasions during the painful process of Brexit, and the trade and co-operation agreement and the structure that it's created have probably not…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Additional learning needs
The IDP, of course, should be a portable document, and should be able to follow the individual through different schools and different opportunities and different places. And so, that was certainly one of the objectives of the legislation. If it isn't being…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Additional learning needs
The purpose of the legislation, of course, was to move away from the situation that James Evans has just described. Every child needs and deserves the same opportunity to reach their full potential, whatever their particular needs are in terms of their…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
I’m grateful to Hefin David for bringing this forward and to the work of Climate Cymru in bringing this to national attention. It's an absolute tragedy. It's a real tragedy that, on the warmest days of the year through the summer, there are many people who we…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I have to say I've rarely heard such nonsense from Conservatives in this Chamber, but Paul Davies has clearly not been watching or listening in the last 12 months where we've had a masterclass in economic incompetence and mismanagement from Elizabeth Truss…
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
I'm grateful to the First Minister for the statement. I very much welcome the fact he rooted his statement in the age of the saints. We visited Ireland as a committee some months ago, and we heard there first hand about the work that's going on through the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Yes, creating that structure of conversation, I think, would be very useful.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Look, I'm very content with what we've heard in the conversation we've had this afternoon, but what strikes me as quite fascinating is how this process is developing, because you said in a number of different answers that we're still very early in the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Well, it's not reassuring, clearly. Reassurance would be that the competence of this place, as the people of Wales have demanded through referenda, is protected by the UK state in its wider sense.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Sorry, I was going to—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Okay, I'll leave it at that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
But my question was the relationship with the powers of this place.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
In terms of where you think the market access principles sit, you've already noted the Welsh Government's position, where it doesn't recognise the effect of the market access principles on legislative competence here. Do you have any understanding of how…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
It is, yes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
I agree.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
I met the board of the Competition and Markets Authority some months ago, and one of the impressions I was left with, walking away from the meeting, was what a fantastic bank of knowledge and information is there, and any Government would want to be able to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
That's just it, isn't it, and that's what interests me, because what you're doing is establishing a baseline. It's a narrative, it's a description of where things are. James is absolutely right about the optimism involved in Governments agreeing, but one area…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Thank you very much. I'm grateful to you for your time today. It feels like business is having a bit of a crash course in the political geography of the UK with COVID and with these new regulations and structures coming into place. So, it seems to me to be a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
It's official.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Is that a ministerial-level meeting or an official-level meeting?
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Minister, we will all have seen the report published yesterday that demonstrated the growth in child poverty. In my constituency in Blaenau Gwent, child poverty is reaching over 30 per cent. It is an ongoing tragedy and emergency for children growing up…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'm grateful to the First Minister for that response. I'm also grateful to the First Minister and to the Minister for Economy for the energy and the urgency with which you have responded to the closure of Tillery Valley Foods Ltd in Abertillery, but also…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
6. How is the Welsh Government supporting businesses in Blaenau Gwent? OQ59627
