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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much for your important question.
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you, Natasha Asghar. That's a very important question as well. Interestingly, we do know through our national survey for Wales that rural and urban aren't necessarily the underlying cause for digital exclusion—93 per cent of people in both rural and…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much, Carolyn Thomas, for your important question as North Wales regional Member. The Welsh Government website www.gov.wales/broadband-in-Wales does contain useful information to help guide people through the process of improving digital…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Our digital inclusion and health programme, Digital Communities Wales, supports organisations across all communities and sectors to help people maximise the opportunities digital can offer. And over 91,000 people have received support for basic digital…
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Debate: Human Rights
We need to make that absolutely clear, as you say, Huw Irranca-Davies. And we have made this clear in this Chamber. I have to say that we had a moment of consensus earlier on, in response to the opening speech, when Darren Millar said that he did welcome the…
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Debate: Human Rights
Llywydd, if adopted, the Nationality and Borders Act 'would seriously undermine the protection of the human rights of trafficked persons, including children, increase risks of exploitation faced by all migrants and asylum seekers, and lead to serious human…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Diolch yn fawr, Heledd Fychan, and I thank you for raising that important issue as well. The horrors—it's night after night we've seen it, the horrors of the crimes, the war crimes and the rape of women. This is something that is crucially important, that…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Thank you very much, Huw Irranca-Davies. And I think that's another important reason why I need to come with my statements here, as regularly as the Llywydd and the Senedd allow me to, because we need to have that feedback. I need to have that feedback, as…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Diolch yn fawr, Sioned. This is one of the points about meeting together, which we have done regularly over the last few weeks, myself and the Minister for Refugees, Lord Harrington, and Neil Gray, MSP, the Minister in the Scottish Government, because both…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Thank you very much, Mark. I think it's important that the weekly figures that are given on a Thursday—in fact, I quoted 27 April—are figures that are shared on a four-nation basis. So, as I said in my statement, I can again confirm that 2,300 visas have been…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you for the opportunity, once again, to provide an update to Members on our ongoing work to support people from Ukraine who continue to flee this most cruel war in the hope of finding sanctuary. With each day that…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the British Sign Language Bill
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. This is a small but important piece of legislation, and it's been really helpful to have this debate in moving this LCM—an opportunity to discuss the importance of BSL. Thank you to Jenny Rathbone on behalf of the Equality and Social…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the British Sign Language Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motion and I'm happy to propose this motion and explain why I believe the Senedd should agree it. For many people in Wales, British Sign Language is the language they use in everyday life, but we know that for many they have been…
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Motion to Suspend Standing Orders
I move the motion.
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Delivery of the Programme for Government commitment to fund additional PCSOs
Thank you very much indeed, Jack Sargeant, and thank you for your long-standing commitment to PCSOs and for representing your constituents, who often are at the sharp end, for many of the reasons that Peredur also commented on in terms of inadequate support…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Delivery of the Programme for Government commitment to fund additional PCSOs
Diolch yn fawr, Peredur, and also, as you say, there are so many new skills that our police forces have got to encompass in terms of traditional and new crime, particular cyber crime, which you have highlighted, but also the response, as we've talked about…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Delivery of the Programme for Government commitment to fund additional PCSOs
Thank you very much, Mark Isherwood, and good to have your support for what was our pioneering commitment, I have to say, which takes us way back before your commitments, I have to say. It's good to have your support, Mark—I say that with all goodwill…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Delivery of the Programme for Government commitment to fund additional PCSOs
I would like to extend my thanks to policing partners for supporting this rapid and welcome bolstering of PCSO numbers. I would also like to thank every PCSO working in Wales for the work that they're doing and the impact that they're having on their…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Delivery of the Programme for Government commitment to fund additional PCSOs
We do this, of course, despite not having responsibility for policing. That means we have to find the funds for this from within budgets not designed for these purposes. It is, though, a sign of our priorities and how things would be different if policing…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Delivery of the Programme for Government commitment to fund additional PCSOs
On 24 August 2021, I announced an additional £3.7 million of funding for the extra 100 PCSOs across Wales, and this brought the 2021-22 Welsh Government commitment to over £22 million and met our programme for government commitment. In a launch event for…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Delivery of the Programme for Government commitment to fund additional PCSOs
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm pleased to be able to update the Senedd on the delivery of the programme for government commitment to fund 600 police community support officers throughout Wales.
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Diolch yn fawr, Heledd Fychan. And, again, I'm grateful for the examples that you're giving in terms of constituents and sponsor families, and the ones who they want to sponsor—the refugees—having these barriers and difficulties; that's more evidence that is…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Diolch, Jane, and thank you also for introducing me to Sarah, who is yet another—like Amy—amazing Welsh citizen playing that crucial part in making those links, not just in Wales, with all the volunteers and sponsor families, but in Ukraine and in Europe…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Diolch yn fawr, Sarah Murphy, and can we also thank Amy for the work that she's done and what she's shared? Hopefully, people will have a look at that video and congratulate her. So, please give our congratulationsto her for her commitment, her support and…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Diolch, Sioned. Diolch. It's great to hear of that welcome that was given today that you witnessed, and the fact that the community and the school yard, that parents, the community, want to engage and have engaged in such a positive way. Approximately 10,000…
