, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Absolutely. Thank you. We'll move on to questions from Ken Skates.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Does somebody want to go for that one? Who'd like to come in on that? Ian.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you. I'll just bring Laura Jones in. Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you. Claire, did you want to add anything?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you. So, we have lots of experience here this morning, in different ways. In the WLGA and ADEW's written response to the Bill—to the general consultation, sorry—you said that you strongly agreed with the need for legislation and that outdoor education…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Absolutely. We'll be coming on to lots of those questions that you've—the topics that you've said there. Thank you very much. Claire.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
We'll move on to the first item on our agenda this morning, which is the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill. It's our sixth evidence session, and we're pleased to welcome our witnesses this morning, Councillor Ian Roberts, education spokesperson for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I'd like to welcome everybody 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. The meeting is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee today.
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Charitable hospice funding
I'm grateful to Mabon for bringing this debate forward today and to share his concerns about some of the issues that hospices are going through, because it's really important that we have this debate today. Last week, I was really glad to accompany the…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Last week I attended the launch of the Be Heart Happy charity in Newport. The charity was previously known as the Royal Gwent and St Woolos Cardiology Fund, which supported patients in Newport and the surrounding area for over 40 years. This fund is renowned…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
Thank you, Minister, for bringing forward this child poverty strategy for Wales today. I'm speaking today in my capacity as the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee, and, as you mentioned, in this capacity I was involved in the recent…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Tata Steel
This announcement has been absolutely heartbreaking for the workers and their families and the wider communities in Port Talbot. Minister, the impact of the devastating announcement is going to be felt far beyond Port Talbot as well, because this is a very…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister. How will the challenging budget affect the way in which the land division manages land within its portfolio? Will there be sales of land and will this affect the availability of land for affordable housing in the longer term?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister. You've already touched on the transitional accommodation capital programme, but perhaps you can say a little bit more specifically about that. Obviously, you mentioned the allocation in the budget for 2024-25, but perhaps you can talk a…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Cadeirydd, and good afternoon, Minister. I want to go on to talk about another three-word grant, which is the housing finance grant. Perhaps you can explain the rationale behind that £9 million revenue cut and, perhaps, outline some of the impact that…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Minister. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
And on the issue of decarbonisation, we know that the Welsh Government allocated an additional £20 million in capital funding in 2023-24, and similarly in 2024-25, for decarbonisation. Perhaps you can expand on the settlement in terms of local government—how…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
Absolutely. I think that's really helpful, Chair, isn't it, in getting a picture of that, especially from this morning, so thank you for that. I'm just going to move on to some questions now around capital funding and borrowing. Perhaps you can just expand on…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
Brilliant, thank you. Many authorities rightly assumed that the additional grants for the teachers' pay deal in 2022-23 and 2023-24 will be funded on a recurrent basis with the grants transferred into a funding baseline, and the WLGA paper said that a similar…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Good morning, Minister. I just wanted to perhaps touch upon a couple of questions around education and the impact of the budget for local authorities on education. We know that local authorities are receiving an average 3.1 per cent…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Diolch, Gadeirydd.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Just around what Jane mentioned around children's care services, really, and those children who are in care really are at the sharp end, and some of that is expensive. It's a smaller number of people, so people don't realise and aren't affected by it…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Can I just ask one more, final question?
