27 September 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Community assets
—purpose-built student accommodation. So, we have to ensure that the local authorities have the powers in their local development plans to defend communities from overdevelopment and unwanted developments.
27 September 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Community assets
Okay. All right. I would concede that there's much work to do on that. I agree that local services have to be responsible to people's needs. My personal mantra is we constantly need to be reshaping services to better meet people's needs; that's something I've…
27 September 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Community assets
There's much in this motion that's motherhood and apple pie, we'll all agree with it, but I want to share some of the concerns I have around how we go forward on this. Mark Isherwood, you've said that the Welsh Government doesn't want to share power with the…
27 September 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
Thank you. As somebody who used to chair the European programme monitoring committee, I'm fully aware of the importance of this issue. Following the UK Government's raid on the regeneration fund and putting it into this shared prosperity fund, which forces…
27 September 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I represent an urban constituency, so I wonder if you could tell us what proportion of the education budget is being spent on school transport, because I have heard as high as 25 per cent. As we’re about to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Active Travel…
26 September 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Health and Social Care System Resilience
I too spoke to a couple of community pharmacists who are doing excellent work, working in GP practices, but also going into people's homes to ensure that polypharmacy wasn't resulting from the stock of old medicines in the larder that then get mixed up with…
26 September 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Net-zero Commitments
Thank you, Minister, for your incisive deconstruction of Rishi Sunak's statement and the harm that he's going to do. Clearly, we have lost any claim, as the United Kingdom, to be a leader on the transition to a carbon-neutral future—totally depressing in the…
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and for the duration of the committee's meeting on 2 October 2023
I'd just like to invite Members to agree to a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and for the duration of the committee's meeting on 2 October, i.e. next Monday.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Thank you very much indeed. Thank you both for your contributions. I apologise for the technical issues that we experienced earlier. You will of course be sent a transcript of what you have said, and please use the opportunity to make sure we've accurately…
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Okay. Rhian, is there anything, finally, that you wish to add on these issues about how we can see effective monitoring of some tangible targets?
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Thank you. Jayne Bryant.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Okay. Briefly, Rhian.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Brevity at this point, please. Rocio.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Thank you. Altaf.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Rhian, did you want to come in?
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Who's going to go first? Rocio, and then we'll come back to Rhian.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
You're reiterating a really strong point, a really important point, but I think we've captured that. Altaf Hussain.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Okay. Can I interrupt, because we just need to move on?
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Sorry, you're on mute at the moment, Rhian.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Yes, go ahead.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Who's going to go first?
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
I'd like to pass over to Sioned Williams. I'm tempted to say, 'There is no more money and, for a big-ticket item like the child payment, £35 a week, a lot of other stuff would have to be dropped', so we'd need to think what that would be. Anyway, Sioned…
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Okay.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Okay.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3
Okay.
