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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
—financial support for you? Thank you very much.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
—that there won't be any—
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
—are you concerned—
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you very much. I look forward to that statement about whether you intend to raise fees in the same way, and I’d like to hear some kind of timetable about when that’s likely to happen, because there is great uncertainty in the sector at present. Another…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. On Monday, the education Secretary of the UK Government announced that students will pay more for going to university in England next year, with tuition fees rising to £9,535. Setting aside the fact that Keir Starmer has…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you. As four leaders in councils led by Plaid Cymru in rural areas noted recently, in a letter to the Chancellor before the budget, they noted many of our local authorities are finding it difficult to provide services in rural areas, particularly in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
7. What is the Welsh Government doing to ensure that local authorities are able to effectively deliver services in rural areas? OQ61781
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales
What we have today is yet another statement of the obvious. Labour in Wales have failed pupils, parents and teachers for far too long, and now an admission that significant improvements are needed. Did this come as a shock to the Welsh Government when you did…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales
I thank the Minister for the statement.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
If I could just come in on that, what concerns me are the scenarios where we're losing pupils who have received Welsh-medium education and then, perhaps, haven't continued in Welsh-medium secondary schools, more in west Wales than in the area that you and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay. That's clear enough. The final question: in the current Welsh-medium education strategy, there's a trajectory of reaching 40 per cent receiving education through the medium of Welsh by 2050. We have moved back a little bit in terms of reaching that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Perhaps I'll come back to that when we talk about categorisation later, because it might be more relevant if we don't change the categories in terms of Welsh-medium education. Moving on, therefore, currently, you've decided on a three-year timespan for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you very much. There is a requirement in the Bill currently for primarily Welsh language schools to provide Welsh language education delivery plans. We know that Welsh-medium schools do provide Welsh language education anyway, and have done so for over…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay. I want to move on to questions about allowing exemptions by schools. The Bill as it stands offers two exemption periods, and you referred to this, I think, in response to the first question, and I understand why you have said that two exemption periods…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay, thank you very much. Can you confirm whether it's the Welsh Government's intention to use the power in section 11 to make regulations to upgrade the Welsh language learning goals of primarily English language partly Welsh and dual-language schools? You…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
I agree with that, but personally I would want to stick to the 10 per cent curriculum, which is important, and at the heart of the Bill. But there’s another question I’d like to ask, on the back of a number of similar questions from Tom Giffard. I think it’s…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you very much. There was one additional question I did intend to ask, but the answer you provided to the previous question—or the one before last, rather—has inspired another question. So, if I could just go after that, first of all: you referred to a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Diolch yn fawr iawn ichi am yr ateb yna. Dwi'n falch o glywed bod gennych chi feddwl agored ynglŷn â gosod dyletswydd ar wyneb y Bil ynglŷn â datblygu gweithlu dwyieithog a thargedau ar gyfer hynny. Oes yna, yn eich barn chi, ddadl yn erbyn gwneud hynny?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Yes. From me, my usual declaration that, when I was a designated Member, I was involved with the development of the draft Bill that is before us, but I wasn't there at its completion, so that's important to note.
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Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Very briefly, both reports have raised serious concerns about the disconnect between Farming Connect and the policy objectives in agriculture from Government, so this is something that needs to be considered. Sustainable land management objectives—this is…
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Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Yes, okay. I'll just quickly turn, to finish off, to Farming Connect.
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Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Thank you for the clarity, because the lack of clarity is what has caused many of the problems that we have seen and the anger shown by farmers in recent protests that we have seen outside here a few months ago. For many farmers, they can meet those…
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Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Yes, of course I will.
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Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Plaid Cymru welcomes the committees’ recommendation that the Welsh Government should review the tree cover requirement and explore alternative ways to meet environmental goals. Farmers are not opposed to contributing to climate change action, but mandating a…
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Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Thank you to both committees for these reports on the sustainable farming scheme and Farming Connect. They are very important reports that will steer our response, hopefully, for the future of agriculture in Wales, particularly as we tackle the challenges of…
