17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Sure. Just before you go on, it really does mean embedding the Act in people's everyday professional practice, would you agree?
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Very good. Just finally from me, I wondered if Wales is doing enough to address the harm that comes to many people from online harmful and sexualised content, which was certainly picked up by a recent Estyn report—the impact it was having on children and…
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Yasmin, thank you.
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
So, I hope we're okay to continue. Do you think that the governance and accountability arrangements are fit for purpose to ensure that stakeholders are being heard early enough, if they don't feel they're being heard? Obviously, one of the things that Yasmin…
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
All right?
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Now we can't hear you at all, I'm afraid. So, the microphone is on your headset, so you need to—. If you just ensure that you're not touching the wire when you're using your hands, quite rightly, to emphasise a point.
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Okay. Johanna, before we go on, I think there's some interference on your microphone. I don't know whether it's because, when you're emphasising a point, you're hitting the microphone in some way.
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Yes, please.
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Jo.
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Okay, Yasmin.
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee meeting. We are resuming our evidence sessions on gender-based violence and abuse. We're very pleased to welcome the two national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence…
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to exclude the public from items 4 and 6
I'd now like to ask the committee if we can agree under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public from items 4 and 6. That means that we will resume at 14:30 for our public scrutiny of the national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence…
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
We have two papers to note: correspondence with Detective Chief Constable Blakeman, which is relevant to the work that we're doing on migrant women and sexual violence, and the other is correspondence between the Permanent Secretary and the Auditor General…
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. Later on this afternoon, we're going to be taking evidence from the national advisers on domestic violence. For now, I'd just like to note the apologies from Jane Dodds, who's on other Senedd…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
True, whilst accepting our global responsibility. So, I just wondered—I'm sure we all agree with your concerns about international trade agreements—is there something missing from this Bill to ensure that that is crystal clear, that we can't simply be…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
I'm not aware of any proposals from Welsh Government to eliminate our animal welfare standards or our clean water standards. There may be noises off from other adjacent countries to eliminate lots of regulations, but are your members under the impression that…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
I just wanted to pick up on farmers who might be tempted not to go into the sustainable farming scheme. They would still be, obviously, having to adhere to the laws around water pollution and other laws. They wouldn't simply be allowed to make the money and…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay, but we're not examining the policy here, we're examining the principles. The principles in Part 2, are they sufficient to ensure that it will be an obligation of Welsh Government to ensure that the objectives are carried out, by working with you to…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
All right, thank you. Shall we bring in Hazel, because it’s more difficult for Hazel to—? Did you want to comment on this aspect of the Bill?
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Although I have to say, I don't agree with your response to Sam Kurtz's question about productivity and sustainability being one and the same thing. Productivity may actually harm sustainability.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay. But in terms of improving the food security problem that we already have, do you think that the powers are sufficient to enable Government to intervene, to strengthen our food security?
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
You accept that we can't tie the hands of future Governments into what they have to do, and, you know, in light of the money we do or don't have from the UK Government that obviously constrains what we can do, and so that's why we obviously have to talk to…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Excellent. Okay. So, moving on now to Part 2 of the Bill: do you think that the objectives and the duties of the Welsh Government, as set out in the Bill, are sufficient to support the changes that we need to make to develop sustainable agriculture? I mean…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Oh, Hazel, would you like to just—
