, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you for that answer. Research done by University College London of clinics in London found that nine out of 10 are flouting the regulations that are intended to protect public health, which ban the advertising of this drug and other products of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
5. What action is Welsh Government planning to take to tackle the misuse of Botox for profit? OQ59407
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Historical Adoption Practices
Thank you very much for your leadership on this matter. [Interruption.] Thank you very much for your leadership on this really painful matter. Reflecting on when I was a young woman in the 1960s and 1970s, I can genuinely say that I did not know about this. I…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The National Diagnostic Strategy
Thank you very much for your statement, Minister. I strongly welcome this good use of scarce resources. These are very expensive bits of kit, and therefore making them available on a regional basis seems to me an entirely rational way of doing things. I…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. The evidence provided by Citizens Advice Cymru does not make for encouraging reading. We learn of households being threatened with prepayment meters, even during the so-called moratorium on forced installation; customers threatened…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. What is the Welsh Government's assessment of Ofgem's latest proposal to allow energy companies to resume forcing households onto prepayment meters? OQ59415
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix) to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
I'll now ask Members whether you're content for us to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting under Standing Order 17.42. I see no objection, therefore we'll go into private session.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
Okay. All those are extremely valid points. Bear in mind that there will be a public debate in the Senedd on this, and the date has been confirmed as 24 May. So, we'll endeavour to get some clarification on the issues you have raised. Does anybody else wish…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
There are 10 papers to note. I just wonder if Members are content to agree all these papers to note, including the one on my reply to the finance Chair on the budget. Sarah Murphy.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. All Members are present. I've received no apologies.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Primary care clusters are obviously a very important part of your vision for the future, and they have small budgets to enable them to commission X or Y to address a gap in very localised services. Clearly, transparency is really important—that Freda isn't…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay. All right, thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay. Thank you. I think my last question is really around the opportunities for the Bill to promote and advance equality and inclusion through health service procurement. I'm thinking around social prescribing, I'm thinking around the recovery college work…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. I think that covers that. I suppose my next question is really on how this aligns with the social partnership and public procurement Bill, where we've established, or we hope we're going to establish, in law, things like fair work, the living wage…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay. Which is all the more reason why you, Minister, want to ensure that the regulations that we want will be made in Wales.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Given that it's such a muddle, it doesn't look like there's been a lot of scrutiny. Is that the case? What scrutiny has the Houses of Parliament done on the potential implications of all this?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
So, that, potentially, could give comfort to the health boards to be able to pursue some of our aspirations and vision.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Yes, well, that what was I wanted to ask you about, which is this disapplication clause that has been put in at the Committee Stage. So, Nick, would you be able to give us a sort of layperson's explanation of what is the importance of this insertion of the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Once it's completed the Report Stage.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
You could also be thinking of social prescribing, for example, which is high on the agenda. Okay. Very good. So, obviously, the Bill has gone through the Committee Stage in the House of Commons, but it still hasn't gone through the Report Stage in the House…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
No.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. Moving on—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
If I could, Chair—. So, things like endometriosis services in north Wales are currently procured from NHS in the Wirral and Liverpool. So, were that to continue—which it's not going to, but—then that would have to come under the regime of this new procurement.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay. Thank you, that's really—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
Okay, not goods. Okay.
