, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
We’ve dealt with rail; you’ve answered all the questions on rail. If legislation isn’t the biggest barrier, it’s this planning—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Okay, so you’re between a rock and a hard place in how effectively you can use the bus network support grant because of what you’ve just described. So, when are we going to be able—? What is the timetable for legislation to enable us to take control of the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
I want to talk about transport poverty, because, obviously, it's entirely relevant to the earlier conversation you were having with Huw. Sustrans says that young people and those in rural areas are the ones who are suffering most from transport poverty. TfW…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
I was trying to find the right words, and I apologise if I gave that impression at all. I completely agree on that; I'll desist from all that. But I know, from having talked to people in England, some of the really difficult decisions, particularly around…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Yes.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Welsh local authorities face really difficult decisions this year, but it's nothing compared with what English local government is having to face. There have been huge numbers—significant local authorities in England—having to issue 114 notices, which means…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Yes, just on this unfair funding formula. The only way to change it is if you can get all of the local authorities to agree to a different one, because it's something that they do together. So, if you think that it's unfair—and it may be—then what would you…
, Plenary
Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
I think what's happening, though, is that Tata is modernising. It's simply modernising elsewhere—in Holland or India—rather than in Port Talbot. As it's such a strategically important industry, it is vital that the UK asserts the need to have a strategic…
, Plenary
Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
Many people have spoken eloquently about the devastation that happens when you chuck thousands of people on the dole, not least David Rees in defence of his own community in Port Talbot. But I remember covering the steel devastation that took place in the…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Tackling the impact of poverty on attainment
What evaluation is planned of the success of the 'Claim what's yours' publicity campaign, to drive up the uptake of benefits?
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Tackling the impact of poverty on attainment
I'm fascinated that we got 175 school holiday enrichment schemes last summer, and I'm very pleased that we have protected that sum of money in this year's draft budget, but, inevitably, the same amount of money doesn't buy as many bangs for the bucks because…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Implementation of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023
You say in your statement that the other procurement rules, apart from construction, will need a great deal more work before you're ready to implement them. I'm particularly interested in the issue of getting our public sector food cleaned up, because…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
Thank you, I'm going to. But I welcome discussing all this with Rod Hick so that we can ensure that we have clear milestones.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
There is much to celebrate in the new strategy, and, particularly, I welcome the reinforcement of children's rights. Children don't choose to be born into poverty and it is absolutely right that they have legal recourse to ensuring that their rights are…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Three things. One is: there is a Holocaust memorial book of commitment upstairs in the Neuadd, which we can all sign in advance of Saturday's Holocaust Memorial Day, which of course is when the Russians liberated Auschwitz. We had a wonderful, wonderful…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. Of course, most people throughout Wales and across the United Kingdom support women's right to choose to take on that very difficult lifelong commitment to having a child. Women who attend these clinics are at their most vulnerable…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. What representations will the Welsh Government make to the UK Government regarding the Home Office draft guidance that would allow anti-abortion protestors to approach women attending abortion clinics? OQ60584
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix) to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting
I now suggest that we exclude the public for the remainder of today's meeting under Standing Order 17.42. Is that agreeable? Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much indeed, Minister, for your attendance, along with Hannah Blythyn, your Deputy Minister, and all the officials. Thank you very much, all of you. Obviously, we're going to send you a transcript, and you should make sure that we haven't…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Excellent. Sarah.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Okay. Very good. An evaluation of the impact of that service would be useful, but we haven't got time to go into that.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you. Did you want to come in? We have four minutes left.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Okay.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
I absolutely wasn't wanting to suggest that these were units of evidence just for your department. It's absolutely crucial that the Government is making decisions based on accurate information. And, I suppose, what you're not telling us, really, is how many…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Okay. That's something we may want to come back to, because, obviously, surprises like that shouldn't be happening, really. Several reports that we've done in the last year or two have emphasised the importance of accurate data in order to inform decision…
