, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
And just finally, on improving our food security, how is the green jobs growth going to make us better able to rely on food produced in Wales, rather than food that may or may not arrive from the continent?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
All right, but how do you ensure that you have the skills that are going to be needed—whether we're decarbonising buildings or building new zero-carbon buildings, that we have the skills that industry needs to ensure that we're bringing Welsh workers in to do…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
All right. Sticking with energy for the time being, RenewableUK Cymru are saying that, because we are blessed with so much wind, there's a £47 billion private investment opportunity within the next 10 years. I wondered if you could tell us how the allocations…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Obviously, the public sector is supposed to have decarbonised all its buildings by 2030, but I don’t detect an awful lot of urgency from local authorities or health boards on this.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
So, this is greening existing buildings, making them more energy efficient—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
On this £23 million, how is that going to make a difference? Because Ynni Cymru and Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru are very welcome, but they’re small beer compared with the extent of the shift to renewable energy that needs to take place.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thanks. We don’t need many more reminders that we are not gripping the climate emergency as fast as we need to, because we have already reached 1.6 degrees C warming, over and above the target that was set in Paris. Looking at how we’re going to adapt our…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
I haven't seen the video yet, but how much evidence does it provide that the people of Port Talbot are empowered to make the decisions about their future, rather than being done to, with, 'Here's some money and these are the conditions'?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Under Standing Order 17.42, could we now move into private session, please?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
So, we now have nine papers to note. They include a response from Stephen Timms, the Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions, regarding our inquiry into the disability employment gap, and eight other bits of correspondence. Are we content to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you very much indeed for your time and that of your officials. We'll obviously send you a transcript of the proceedings, and you're obviously able to amend it if there's anything that's been incorrectly recorded.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you. Sioned, just briefly.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Okay. Altaf Hussain.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you. We did have one final area of discussion. Are you able to give us a further five minutes, Cabinet Secretary?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
No, that's okay. Go ahead.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
So, now you've got—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Okay. We look forward to the detail. Mick Antoniw.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you. We'll need to move on, then. Altaf Hussain.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Primary school children, I meant.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
So, what you're saying is that at the moment there are still local authorities who are not giving free school meals to every single child in primary school.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Okay. Thank you. So, we obviously hope to see real progress on this amongst all 22 local authorities. Sioned Williams.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Julie Morgan.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Okay, thank you. A breakdown of how they are being funded would be useful, but outside this meeting.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Fine. I'll come back to you in a minute, then. Jane, can you move on to equality, inclusion and human rights, please?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Okay. This is a really important subject, but I think we're going to have to foreshorten this discussion and focus on the specifics of the budget at the time. So, was there anything further you, Julie Morgan, wanted to say about young people leaving care?
