, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 1
Brilliant. And you mentioned in your opening statement just about how difficult financial times are at the moment and how difficult it's been setting the budget. Are there any programme for government or co-operation agreement commitments that you've not been…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 1
Thank you, Minister. Can you briefly summarise how sustainability and the interests of future generations have been reflected in the budget?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 1
Welcome. Before we go into questions, I'd just like to put on record our thanks for the really comprehensive paper that we received from you, and the time that went in from officials to put that together as well. We're really grateful for that piece of work…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 1
So, I'll move swiftly on this morning to our first item on the agenda, which is the scrutiny of the Welsh Government's draft budget 2023-24. It's our first evidence session, and we are very pleased that the Minister for Education and Welsh Language is here…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I'd like to welcome Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee this morning. The public items of this meeting are being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, and a Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Aside from the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to the meeting of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee this morning.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Brif Weinidog. Palliative care can represent a huge spectrum of different emotions. It's an incredibly sensitive time for all involved, individuals, families and friends. For many, the decision to move to palliative care comes far, far too soon. For…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. Will the First Minister make a statement on end-of-life care in Wales? OQ58890
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Annual scrutiny of the work of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Annual scrutiny of the work of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Thank you for that, and it's helpful to have those examples as well. Just finally from me: what impact will extending the well-being duty to those eight additional public bodies have on your office?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Annual scrutiny of the work of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Diolch, Cadeirydd, and good afternoon, commissioner. You mentioned in your answer to the first question, I think, how you provide support to public bodies and how that's changed recently. Perhaps you could talk a little bit more about the changes made and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
So, the next item is to move into private session, so I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42 that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? I see that Members are content, so we will now…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
We'll now move on to our next item, which is papers to note. Full details are set out in the papers to note on the agenda and in the paper pack. Are Members content to note them together? There are 11 papers there to note. I see that all Members are content.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
You will receive a transcript as well in the coming days and weeks.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Thank you very much. Thanks, Sioned. And obviously, thank you, again, for coming in this morning—we really appreciate it. If we do have any further questions—I was very conscious of time—we might write to you and look forward to your responses on those. But…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Okay. Thank you very much, and I'm sure that we'll be keeping a close eye on all of that as well. Just to say, finally, thank you very much for coming in today. Oh, sorry, Sioned. Sioned would like to come in briefly.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Okay, thank you for that reassurance. And just finally, have you had any discussions with the Welsh Government about your required budget for 2023-24? And how confident are you that you'll have sufficient resources to deliver on your objectives?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Thank you, Sioned. Just a couple of questions from me, just to take us back a little bit to the grading policy again, in terms of the reason for needing generous grading in 2023, because of the link with the AS-levels, won't that be the same in 2024?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Thanks, Ken. Questions from Sioned Williams. Sioned.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Thanks.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Ken.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Sorry. David wanted to come in. Sorry, Ken.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
We've got some questions now from Ken Skates. Ken.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
No, that's fine.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2021-2022
Yes. Quick, Laura.
