Welsh Labour

Speeches and questions

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

233 speeches and questions

10 January 2024Plenary
Topical Questions
It is clear that this scandal has had a significant and devastating impact on the lives of all affected, which is why the Welsh Government has raised profound matters of concern relating to access to and miscarriage of justice issues in meetings with a…
9 January 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Thank you, Joyce Watson. You make the point about how such reports and reviews make such difficult and distressing reading that it does then cast a shadow over the service as a whole. I hear your disappointment in the work that you've done, which I know…
9 January 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Diolch, Delyth Jewell, for your contribution. I think I caught most of it, but my audio was going in and out, but hopefully I caught most of it. With respect to how we found out about that, and it is with great sadness, and again I absolutely pay tribute and…
9 January 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Can I thank Vikki Howells for her question? I know that your commitment in this area is one that you are very—for want of a better word—committed to. Just on the point of diversity as well, I think that's a really important point. It's something that was…
9 January 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Diolch, Sioned Williams, for your contribution and for the very many important points that you made during that contribution, which I wholeheartedly agree with, as you would anticipate. You raise a number of key concerns and key issues that this review has…
9 January 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Can I thank Joel James for his contribution today? You shine a spotlight on many of the concerns raised through the report and the review, and also the recommendations for wider cultural and procedure and systematic change that Fenella Morris KC and the team…
9 January 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Immediately following the ITV report, I met the chair of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Authority and made clear to him the need for a thorough independent review of the service. He agreed to do so, and Fenella Morris KC was subsequently appointed to lead…
9 January 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Diolch, Llywydd. In December 2022, ITV News ran a story exposing serious misconduct by staff of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. It included a case of gross and prolonged sexual harassment by a firefighter towards a colleague at a fire station in…