, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Illegal Migration Bill
Thank you. Thank you for taking an intervention. We talk about unaccompanied minors and we talk about keeping them safe and the removal of the right for us to do that. Do you share the same concerns that I have that the UK Government, charged with keeping…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I thank you for that answer, First Minister. This Friday is International Women in Engineering Day, and I'll be marking that with a visit to Dragon LNG. There are good initiatives out there, as you say, like the Engineering Education Scheme Wales programme…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. What is the Welsh Government doing to encourage girls into science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and careers? OQ59722
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
—so, we're going to have to have something back in writing—about those areas that are reserved, where we haven’t got any powers. So, that relies on the inter-ministerial, inter-official working. How, in your opinion, effective is that? How is it operating? Is…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, we've also got another partner, and time is going to defeat us—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
One of the other suggestions, of course, is, when we're moving to a net-zero skills action plan, encouraging cross-departmental work in this area—and one of the suggestions is the Minister for Economy—on developing a plan, but there are lots of issues we've…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Cross-cutting issues and governance: so, there was a suggestion by the Climate Change Committee that you should establish a Welsh climate assembly to address the cross-cutting issues. What are your thoughts on that?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
I absolutely agree with what you're saying—there's remarkable budgeting going on; I wish my sofa was as full of money as theirs. But there's a real issue here about small towns and accessibility for people that was in place isn't in place any longer, post…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Good. Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Because that is about behaviour change and the messages that can go with that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
A very quick question. When you look at waste, of course, we're not just talking about the waste that we've so far talked about, but the re-use, which seems to be lost in this conversation so far this morning—lots of really good projects that we invest in to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
And I've got quite a lot. But, anyway, coming on to farmers and what we can do, particularly tenant farmers, there are holdings within local government, and some of them have sold them off and some of them have other restrictions. So, I'd be interested to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
I can think of a number of rivers, and you know what I would put forward, but anyway—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
—and if there are, are we prepared to access those innovations with our partners? And is Welsh Government taking action in that space?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
Are there new developments of medicines and treatments on the horizon for detecting and treating gynaecological cancers—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
Okay. And is there anything that needs to be done, in your opinion, in terms of access to medicine and treatment to make it more effective in Wales—because we're looking here at Wales—to ensure that women in Wales don't get left behind with specific…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
I might have said it completely wrong.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
Okay.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
'KEYTRUDA' has been approved by NICE. If you don't know about it, I certainly don't. [Laughter.]
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
Okay. Thank you. And you did talk about the difference between our system and the NICE system. So, we understand that now. But are there NICE-approved drugs that, say, the Scottish Medicines Consortium have approved, and—I can't even pronounce…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
Moving on, is the lack of capacity in NHS Wales impacting on access to any drugs or treatments, in your opinion?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
Okay.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
That'd be useful. That's great, thank you. Going on to my area, which is access to new drugs and treatments, and the provision of some of those new treatments taking longer to introduce in Wales than the rest of the UK, and one of those is the therapy drug…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Gynaecological cancers: Panel 6
Yes. It's just a brief question. You talk about lack of funding to take—. It's this cycle, isn't it, that universities aren't funded then things don't happen. But what I'm trying to understand is why, what's affected the funding now that might have been there…
