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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

1,618 speeches and questions

16 September 2026Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Grooming gangs
I formally move.
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Thank you for raising that. Look, I'm really glad that you had that positive experience. It should, like you say, be a precious experience for every family or every individual, and, too often, it isn't, of course, and I feel that we need to keep repeating…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Diolch, Zaynub, and thank you for your advocacy with this issue as well. This has come up already and I'll say again that I know that there are concerns about how reported staffing levels don't always reflect the pressures that are being experienced on the…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Diolch, Gareth. I know the expertise that you bring to this area as well, so thank you for sharing that. Certainly we need to be learning from MBRRACE-UK on this. My understanding is that acute psychiatric problems, like what you've set out, would be covered…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
—that women feel that they are truly empowered to be able to use their voice, and to feel more certain that their voice is going to be listened to. I am concerned—. Okay, I will take that away, the point that you said about the lack of awareness among some…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
that they are being empowered—
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
[Inaudible.]—vitally important. Because of where the microphone is, I'm sorry that I'm having to have my back to you. It's very awkward about the Chamber. No family, no parent should ever be made to feel that they are being difficult when they are worried…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Diolch, Peter. I think that there is an awful lot where there will be, I would hope, agreement across the Chamber on this, and that's come out in the fact that I think that it does no harm to be reinforcing those same questions, because it is something so…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Diolch, Jayne. I agree with the point that you made in opening there, about the first few weeks of a baby's life being of essential importance in terms of not just their welfare, but the welfare of everyone around that baby, about the entire family. I know…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Diolch, Claire. Firstly, I am so sorry for the experience that you have had. Thank you for sharing that, and I'm so sorry. There will be so many women who will have had similar experiences, too many women, and I am very sorry for that. On what you said about…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Importantly, the all-Wales maternity, neonatal and paediatric early warning systems already provide mechanisms to address patient and family concerns. This means the infrastructure for listening to women, parents and families is increasingly becoming part of…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Call for Concern reflects that commitment. It supports our wider programme of maternity and neonatal safety improvement, and it reinforces the principle that women and their families should be active partners in care. This is not simply about introducing a…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
Call for Concern is a patient and family escalation system that gives people a clear way to raise urgent concerns if they believe their own health, or the health of a loved one, is deteriorating and they feel those concerns have not been fully addressed. We…
15 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Putting Women, Babies and Families at the Heart of Safety: The implementation of Call for Concern in Maternity and Neonatal Services
I want to begin by setting out clearly the Welsh Government’s ambition, and my ambition as Minister. We want every woman, baby and family in Wales to receive care that is safe, that is timely, that is compassionate and that is responsive to their needs. We…
8 July 2026Plenary
Member’s Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): A Bill on corporate parenting
These are some of the examples of the creativity, the innovation that I would not want to lose. And we need to find a way, I think, of making sure that where we move to still encourages that innovation and that it is being nurtured from the ground up, as…
8 July 2026Plenary
Member’s Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): A Bill on corporate parenting
Our corporate parenting charter enshrines corporate parenting on a far broader footing than the legislation in England. We're not simply focusing on public sector bodies, we're also establishing partnerships with the private and third sectors to reflect the…
8 July 2026Plenary
Member’s Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): A Bill on corporate parenting
Absolutely. In terms of some of these—. In terms of local authorities, they are statutory obligations, of course. This is about—. I don't disagree at all with what you're saying. I don't. Again, I'm not seeing this as an either/or. I want to make sure that…
8 July 2026Plenary
Member’s Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): A Bill on corporate parenting
Yes.
8 July 2026Plenary
Member’s Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): A Bill on corporate parenting
Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. I'd like to begin as well by thanking Sarah for bringing this prominence to corporate parenting. I think that your work in this area has been a credit to the Senedd. So, diolch, Sarah, for that. I want to work with you to make things…
7 July 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Diolch. A really important question. Obviously, it's quite cyclical that we are in some ways ending where we began, where we were talking about the fundamentals of the social care system that we have, and whether we go back to privatisation, whether we go…
7 July 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Thank you, Jane. Thank you for sharing that good news. It is really important to celebrate that, and I will write to you in terms of what that means for us in Wales. But, where there are things to celebrate, where things are going well, we need to do that as…
7 July 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Diolch. Again, so vitally important as a question. In terms of the delays of diagnosis, as you say, women can sometimes wait years. They are being failed. And yes, as you say, the gender pain gap indeed. I am concerned—. I'm aware of the concern about the…
7 July 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Diolch, Gareth. That's a really, really important question. In terms of waiting times, we have to tackle this. We have to make this better. In terms of psychological therapies, I know in particular that we are not where we need to be, to say the least. And in…
7 July 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Thanks, Safa. That's a really important question. As I've said, we will be evaluating the hubs model. I don't think that most people would, when they hear 'a women's health hub', I don't think that they would think that a website would—. I know that there are…
7 July 2026Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Diolch, Natasha, for those questions. In terms of the women's health strategy and supporting or strengthening women's voices, that is precisely why I want, when we are reviewing the women's health plan—we're commissioning survey work—to make sure that we're…