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Plaid Cymru Debate: Stalking
Indeed.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Stalking
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Can I start by thanking Plaid Cymru for tabling this important motion for debate today? It's very timely that you've brought this for debate in the run-up to National Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week, an annual event…
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Topical Questions
Thank you very much, Jenny Rathbone. You will know from the work that you're doing as Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee that the Minister for Climate Change, Julie James, and I wrote to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and…
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Topical Questions
Diolch yn fawr, Sioned Williams, and thank you for highlighting the pressures on your constituents, the cost-of-living pressures that are so real and are so vivid and coming through every day in terms of reports from the Resolution Foundation, the Bevan…
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Topical Questions
Well, thank you very much, Mark Isherwood. We are in the middle of, as the Resolution Foundation calls it, a cost-of-living catastrophe, and this winter fuel support scheme was launched as part of the household support fund to target families and those who…
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Topical Questions
Thank you very much, Mark Isherwood. The Welsh Government winter fuel support scheme payment is being doubled from £100 to £200 as the cost-of-living crisis intensifies. A written statement has been published to accompany my announcement.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
Thanks very much, Peter Fox, and thank you, also, for your very powerful contribution this afternoon, drawing, as many of us will do and have done this afternoon, from your own constituent, from a survivor, and for that survivor being able to share her story…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
Thank you very much, Delyth Jewell. I will simply say that every word you said is pertinent and important for us, not just today in responding to this statement, but in how we move forward as elective representatives, as Government Ministers and in…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
Diolch yn fawr, Samuel Kurtz, and can I say how moving it is to learn more about our new Senedd Members? Thank you very much for the statement today, Samuel, because I mentioned the Holocaust Educational Trust earlier on. I know—it was since 2008 when I was…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
Thank you very much indeed, Jenny Rathbone, and thank you for speaking up for your constituents, the Armenian community and the massacre, and also your Jewish people and community and families in your constituency, and all our constituencies in Wales. Thank…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
But, I think this is also about—and you mentioned the curriculum—the ways in which we are reaching out to our children and young people, because we funded the Holocaust Educational Trust to run the Lessons from Auschwitz programme in Wales. It's currently…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
Diolch yn fawr, Sioned Williams, and also can we thank you for those powerful accounts of those survivors and family members, and the importance of recognising that those stories must live and continue as they educate us—all of us—and so many have been…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you very much, Darren Millar, and thank you for your recognition, particularly not just of our support for Holocaust Memorial Day and the events that we take part in, but also support for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the funding…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
This Thursday will mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022, and, on this day, we remember those who lost their lives during the Holocaust and in the genocides that have followed. The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day this year is 'One Day'. The Holocaust Memorial Day…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Diolch yn fawr. Diolch.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much, Chair, and chair of the cross-party group as well on this crucial issue. Can I send it back to you in writing, how much the underspend was for this financial year? This is something—and we discussed it last week, didn't we, in…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much, Sarah. I'm responsible for all of this—oversight of all of the commissioners and their work and budgets. The well-being of future generations commissioner has an impact on every aspect of Welsh Government and Cabinet engagement, as well…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Do you, Claire or Sian, want to answer that question?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
This is again very much reflected across all portfolios, but particularly in terms of reducing health inequalities because it's not just about quality housing that we've mentioned, but it's also about the environment, access to employment, and decent…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Well, thank you very much, Sarah. Of course, as you say, this goes back to the ever-resounding theme of this budget scrutiny, which is that so many of the investments in the draft budget, not within our portfolio, are key to other ministerial objectives to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Diolch, Sioned. Well, the 'Deeds Not Words' report steered our investments in terms of gender equality. I mentioned earlier on, of course, the investment that's been made in a number of gender budgeting pilots, not just the personal accounts gender budget…
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Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you. I think I did partly answer that by saying that this is for other Ministers. For example, just in terms of the work that we've been doing over the past year, we've had disabled employment champions employed, and that funding doesn't come through my…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
I'll just say that I have, actually—. In terms of the sum of money, Altaf, we've got £1.2 million available in the first phase of responding to the disability rights taskforce in the coming financial year. So, we've got some means of being able to respond to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much. I've mentioned the disability rights taskforce. It's interesting, that came out of a report called 'Locked Out: Liberating disabled people's rights and lives in Wales beyond Covid-19'. And actually the disability taskforce has only just…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft Budget 2022-23: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much, Altaf, for that question, because this is where my responsibilities for equalities, which are very much about tackling inequalities, are crucial, particularly for people with protected characteristics. We've already mentioned the adverse…
