Welsh Conservatives

Speeches and questions

Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

1,012 speeches and questions

7 March 2023Plenary
Group 4: Nominations to the SPC by Wales TUC Cymru (Amendments 2, 27)
Yes.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 4: Nominations to the SPC by Wales TUC Cymru (Amendments 2, 27)
Yes.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 4: Nominations to the SPC by Wales TUC Cymru (Amendments 2, 27)
Yes.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes, moved.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Yes.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Thank you, Llywydd. And again, I really do not understand the rationale behind this Government's thinking. You want a Bill that improves the well-being of people across Wales, for the purpose of improving economic, environmental, social and cultural…
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 3: SPC: worker and employer representatives (Amendments 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 39, 40, 42)
Thank you, Llywydd, and I will speak to my amendments. The majority of active enterprises in Wales are small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for around 99 per cent of all total enterprises and for 62 per cent of all employment and 38 per cent of…
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 2: SPC: meetings and chair (Amendments 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
Thank you, Llywydd, and I must confess I still have no idea why there's so much resistance to an independent chair for this advisory council. I really do think that the Government is missing an opportunity, because an independent chair would not only be able…
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 2: SPC: meetings and chair (Amendments 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
The SPC aims are to provide advice and information to Government Ministers. If you look at the tripartite social partnership councils in Europe—and I cannot account for all of them, but—large proportions of them have independent chairs who, in turn, have…
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 2: SPC: meetings and chair (Amendments 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
Yes. I'm sorry; I've got a cold.
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 2: SPC: meetings and chair (Amendments 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
No. —the Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham, threatening Sir Keir Starmer with a reduction in funding last July after he sacked Sam Tarry from the front bench for joining a picket line. The council, in its current form, means that the integrity of the…
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 2: SPC: meetings and chair (Amendments 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
Trade unions are more than willing to use this mechanism, as we have seen with the Unite general secretary—
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 2: SPC: meetings and chair (Amendments 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
Thank you, Llywydd. Having them represented on an advisory council consequently creates two significant problems. Firstly, it either produces an echo chamber for the First Minister and Government Ministers, to only hear the things that they want to hear, or…
7 March 2023Plenary
Group 2: SPC: meetings and chair (Amendments 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
Thank you, Llywydd, for this opportunity to contribute, and I would like to, first of all, speak to my own amendments. The reality is that the bulk of membership on the social partnership council will made up of trade union council members, who will represent…
7 March 2023Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, according to Stats Wales, in December 2022, Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which covers the Cynon valley, along with Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and the rest of Rhondda Cynon Taf, had a staggering 13,732 patients waiting more than 14 weeks for…