, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
General Scrutiny
I've got supplementaries from John, Jenny and Jack.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
General Scrutiny
Thank you for that. Can I also give my appreciation and recognition of the work you did as the economy Minister prior to becoming First Minister in the area of steel and Tata? I know you worked well with the unions and various communities in that aspect, and…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
General Scrutiny
Thank you for that. I'll start off with the questions, if that's okay. Clearly, yesterday's announcement by Tata in relation to the end of the consultation period and its intention to continue with its proposals to close both blast furnaces in Port Talbot…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
General Scrutiny
And transition. We might well be talking a bit more about things outside the co-operation agreement, as well.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
General Scrutiny
And is she the director of co-operation agreement?
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
General Scrutiny
Could I welcome Members and the public back to this evidence session on the scrutiny of the First Minister? The second session is focused on more topical themes, and we'll be talking to and asking questions of the First Minister in relation to those…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
I'm sure there will be. Okay, I'm going to draw the session to a close, because we've exceeded our time. Can I thank you for your time in this session, and can I thank your officials? For your officials' information, of course, you will receive copies of the…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
So, the delivery unit, which I think is under Rebecca Evans at the moment, is something that will be looking very carefully at how it delivers the strategy.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
We've gone beyond our time, but, from that last point, First Minister, can I therefore assume that your new Cabinet Secretary will be reviewing the strategy to see how it can be strengthened, based upon some of the comments you've heard?
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
The Chair of the committee will, I'm sure, ask those questions.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
I'm going to move on. Sorry, James, but we've got very little time left in this session, and we haven't touched child poverty yet and I want Llyr and Jenny to come in with questions, and I will go an extra five minutes beyond our time for this purpose. So…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
Well, you'll need to be very quick, because we haven't got a lot of time.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
One of the questions that will help answer that is resourcing, clearly, because how we help and support families is a resourcing matter, much of it. We'll go on to workforce now. Then we'll go on to child poverty, because I'm very conscious of the time, when…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
I just want to go on to one final point on that. The Welsh Government's own guidance says that local authorities, when they are acting as a corporate parent, should be asking, 'Is this good enough for my own child?' CYPE went on to expand upon that, and said…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
I want to move on because we have a short amount of time and there's a lot of areas we haven't yet touched. So, Jack, do you want to talk about corporate parenting?
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
James, you have a supplementary question.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
I want to go back now to John Griffiths.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
It's not quite a supplementary, but we'll take them.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
I want to bring Mark in now. Mark.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
I've got Jenny and Mark who want to ask supplementaries. We'll come back to you, John.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
John Griffiths.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
Llyr.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
Yes, Mark.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
Mark.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Care-experienced children
And when do you think we can expect some form of—I don't know; not a decision—a proposal based upon that evaluation—a quick, short evaluation?
