, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
So, we really do need to address this and teach children, but, I've got to be honest, I'm shocked when I see adults' behaviour in the way that they just discard litter.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
Yes. This is for Keep Wales Tidy now. What has been your involvement in the development of a Welsh Government litter prevention plan for Wales? What do you hope to see in the plan? Do you have any insight as to when this might be published? And again, I have…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
And a final point, if I can—and I'm sure you'd support me on this, Chair—is a shout-out to Crest recycling, which is based here in Llandudno Junction. They do phenomenal work in terms of repairing, reusing, and they help people into employment. Their model…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
I suppose, for me, I'm quite interested in the repair side of things, because too often, if a vacuum or an iron breaks, people just throw them away, and in the olden days—I'm giving my age away—you would just simply repair it, if it needed a fuse or…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
Thank you, Chair. To what extent is reuse and repair being prioritised? What more needs to be done to promote and support reuse and repair, including community and national initiatives, and, of course, the infrastructure investment?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
And then to WRAP, how are you developing a methodology to analyse and estimate food waste levels, and when might this be available?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
Thank you, Chair. When I was growing up, there wasn't food waste—you ate everything on your plate, and that was it. What is your understanding of the progress made against the 2025 food waste target of a 50 per cent reduction in avoidable food waste? What…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Economic policy
—is using its levers, its powers and its funding to unleash economic growth. We've seen the Wrexham and Flintshire investment zone, Anglesey free port, Wylfa Newydd, prosperity fund, levelling-up funding. I'm afraid, anybody watching this, vote Labour on 4…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Economic policy
Thank you. Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm not sure myself what happened there. Well, I've heard some interesting comments and contributions here today, but I have to praise Sam Kurtz and Mark Isherwood for very factually and correctly pointing out just how bad…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you, Minister. The reason I raise this is, at the start of the twenty-first century schools model, it's fair to say, under Kirsty Williams, that we managed to get a brand-new school. And it's fantastic to have one in your own constituency—a brand-new…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
2. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on funding for school refurbishment in Aberconwy? OQ61227
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: D-day and Armed Forces Week
I would just like to say how lovely the tributes have been here for the D-day commemoration. I took part in three events. I went to Conwy, the Mulberry stone, and then I went to Llandudno cenotaph, and I also went to the bandstand in the evening of Thursday…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: A sustainable Welsh marine environment
Yes. So, I would just ask the Minister: he has promised to visit the School of Ocean Sciences in Bangor, and I’d be able to tell him so much more and show him so much more when we have that visit. But thank you, Minister. I think so early on in your brief…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: A sustainable Welsh marine environment
First of all, I would like to thank the Minister for the statement—it has been a long time coming. It is something that I've raised in climate change committee and I've raised in the Senedd. Welsh territorial seas cover some 32,000 square kilometers. That's…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Yes, okay. So, what will you do, working with the health Minister, First Minister, to ensure that you look exactly at how the insourcing of external programmes is working? Because to actually stop it for a year and it not be picked up is disgraceful. I want…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Yes. So, basically, those patients were then just left in abeyance for months and months and months at a time. Now, they've written to me saying—
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you. Well, interestingly, in Betsi terms, they call it insourcing of external, you know, procedures. Now, 8,568 patient pathways are waiting over 105 weeks, two years, to start treatment, and that's 3,600 per cent more than the whole of England. Now, in…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
8. What is the First Minister doing to reduce the need for the outsourcing of patients to private clinics for MRI scans in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board? OQ61214
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
Do you not realise how insular that sounds? At the end of the day, you should be welcoming tourists and visitors to Wales. We’ve got so much to shout about, the beauty of this wonderful country. You should be wanting to sell that, not just across the UK but…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
Would you take an intervention?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
I am thrilled this co-operation agreement is confined to the history and legacy that you will be remembered for.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
At a time when all the sector needed was support and attention, the ideologues seem to think that the whole system needs a shake-up. Let's reduce the 182-day occupancy threshold, scrap the tourism tax and allow the sector to breathe and recover.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
—do not understand. It is its lifeblood. And I am proud of every one of those privately owned hospitality businesses and retailers who work hard—they work a lot harder than some of these Ministers here.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
Let us start by looking at the scope and scale of tourism in Wales so that we can understand just how important it is to our culture, our economy and industry. Around one in every nine people in Wales work in this sector, with over 75 per cent of those…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Do you know it's not that long ago that the leader of Plaid Cymru was actually saying how much against nuclear power they were? The doom and gloom coming from those benches is just—. On a more cheery note, what a fantastic announcement there has been today…
