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Business Statement and Announcement
Given the ongoing disinvestment of the banking industry in our high streets, and, in some circumstances, that we don't even have the lender of last resort in our post offices—certainly some of my communities don't any longer have a post office—I just wondered…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much, First Minister. Last week, I took advantage of the Open Doors programme to visit some of the building sites in my constituency and observe the fantastic construction work going on. Given the urgency of creating the green skills jobs we…
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Questions to the First Minister
7. How many socially rented homes does the Welsh Government expect to have been retrofitted by the end of 2022 as part of the programme to reduce carbon emissions from all Welsh housing? OQ57028
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
I just want you to clarify: what is this capital investment that people would need to make? All they might need is an extra person on the door. I don't regard that as capital investment.
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
Well, I'm really surprised that Plaid's not taking the precautionary approach, because there's nothing stopping us passing the procedures today and then amending them if we think there's going to be widespread abuse of the regulations. I think we just have to…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
Thank you, Russell. I don't buy that argument, because they're going to have to screen these young people to make sure that they're above the age for drinking alcohol in any case; otherwise, they're going to be non-compliant with the law in other respects…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
Okay.
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
I think we have plenty of evidence of the need to take this measure. Public Health Wales has all the evidence you might need from people who went to music festivals over the summer and the numbers who returned with COVID. We know that, when young people…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Well-being of Future Generations National Implementation
They clearly have to use their funds collectively to do whatever they think are the priorities for their area, but I do think that there is something that the Government can do to make it easier for them. So, that is certainly one, and I have plenty more to…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Well-being of Future Generations National Implementation
—you accept them. So, the question really is—I don't understand why you've not accepted fully recommendation 2, that you look at the way the public services boards are funded, simply because—. This is not about giving them loads of money so they get into the…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Well-being of Future Generations National Implementation
I agree with Mark Isherwood, particularly that we do actually need a full debate in Government time on these important issues, because we simply can't afford not to use the Act to ensure that all public bodies are working together to collectively deliver the…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Okay, we're now going to move into private session, and if our technicians could let us know once we're in private session. It's as easy as that.
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Okay. Thank you very much. There are many challenges ahead, I think we can generally agree, and it's about can we accelerate the changes fast enough to deal with the problems as they hit us. Anyway, thank you very much indeed for your evidence, and your…
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Okay. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much for your interesting evidence. You're obviously very knowledgeable on all this. We'll send you a transcript of what you have said, and if you could check it to make sure that we have accurately recorded…
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Okay. I'm struggling with this point, really, because clearly the Welsh Government can't afford to be giving money to people who then have the money clawed back in reductions to their universal credit. That's obviously a pointless exercise. Is there a danger…
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Thank you. Altaf.
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Okay. Thank you. Jane Dodds.
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
But that's not something you've heard about yourselves?
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Shelter, in its evidence, was telling us that not only were bad landlords evicting people who they weren't entitled to evict under the moratorium, but, in some cases, the police were even present to enable that illegal eviction to take place. Is that…
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Okay, thank you. And just looking more widely at the potential threat of evictions, if the moratorium on evictions were to come to an end before the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 was to actually kick in, how significant is that, in light of the fact that the…
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Thank you. Just going back to housing debt, clearly, the other organisations we've heard from—social housing organisations and, to some extent, the Welsh Local Government Association—are flagging quite significant increases in the numbers of people who are up…
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Thank you. Sioned Williams.
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Sarah. Sarah Murphy.
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Debt and the pandemic—think tanks
Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We're now going to have evidence from the Bevan Foundation in the fourth hearing in relation to debt and the pandemic. We're very pleased to welcome Steffan Evans from the Bevan Foundation. We've all…
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Debt and the pandemic—affordable credit
Well, thank you very much indeed, all of you. You've had really interesting things to contribute to this inquiry. So, I'd be very grateful if you could look very carefully at the transcript of your evidence to ensure that we've captured it accurately and…
