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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for that. As I understand it—. I know you've been involved in this all the way through, and I'm grateful for your involvement, and, indeed, your obvious passion for it. You’ll, I’m sure, recall that the Commission on Justice in Wales included a…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much for the question. I have not yet had any of those discussions, but I do intend to do so. Following an independent evaluation of the pilot, we are working with partners to progress next steps based on the recommendations made, and I'm very…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I just want to say, Heledd, I wasn't trying to denigrate in any way the number of people waiting on waiting lists for a service by describing the difference between a common parlance agreement and a contract. So, I just wanted to say that I wasn't trying to…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
There has been—my colleague has just reminded me—a written statement on the arrangements between NHS England and NHS Wales today. But I think though, Heledd, what we've got there is the difference between a legal agreement and a common parlance agreement. So…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you. I don’t think there are any constitutional implications of the announcement as made. What we were talking about at the conference was greater collaboration, if you like, between health services, in particular for people along the border, which has…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
As I say, I’ve only been in the role a matter of weeks, as you know, Mark Isherwood, so I will be having conversations with the Law Society, and with the legal profession more widely across Wales, to discuss a number of issues, including legal services…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for the question. Again, I admire the attempt to make that a matter for me, but it very clearly isn’t a matter for me, it’s very clearly a matter for the Cabinet Secretary. My understanding is that both training and advice has been given, both to…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I admire the Member's attempt to make that a legal issue for Wales, where it quite clearly is a legal issue for the UK Government. We will of course be watching with close interest what happens in that legal case, and should those pensioners be successful, no…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much for that. I'll tell you why I'm grateful for it—and you've made this mistake before. I would be more than happy to come with a list of Welsh Government achievements, which I'm happy to read out, Llywydd. The last occasion on which I…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for the question. It remains the responsibility of the relevant portfolio Cabinet Secretary to lead delivery of the Government’s priorities. My role will be to provide additional capacity to support my Cabinet colleagues, by bringing people together…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Delyth. We certainly welcome the Law Society having stimulated an important discussion with so many of its members. It's also very clear how much thinking and work has gone into the recent report, 'From Caernarfon to Caerdydd: Reimagining Justice in…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
While the operation of the justice system is largely reserved to the UK Government, we will, of course, be having discussions with them on the devolution of youth justice and probation. There has been no discussion with UK law officers on this specific…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for the question, Delyth.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Well, I haven't seen the whole of the budget yet, so I'm not in a position to say. I do take the point you make, of course—we'd all like to see some changes, but you have to see the whole thing, the whole picture, and I'm just reporting to you what it feels…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Of course.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I want to thank everyone for their contributions this afternoon. As always, I have insufficient time to answer each point in detail, but, as always, I will try to address the general themes. Last week, in her first Plenary and her…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Formally.
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Eluned Morgan.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
So, that's why we're working—. Exactly that, Russell. That's why we're working with the National Grid, so that what we don't have is an unbroken pipeline that transverses it, but actually has a pipeline that delivers the electricity necessary for those…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
I was just coming on to that. Yes, absolutely. So, absolutely, we will work with all of the stakeholders, including all the environmental bodies, and with our farmers, landowners and everybody else, but, actually, the most important stakeholder is the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
I don't want to agree to that as an absolute, but I understand the point you're making and I think we do need to tighten up what we mean by 'unaffordable' in a very big way. My colleague Jeremy Miles—I think the Senedd has already heard—has an independent…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Thank you, Carolyn. So, I am very happy—and I've had a conversation with Adam Price a number of times—to look at how we can make sure that a lot more of our cabling goes underground. But there is—. I'm sorry to be pedantic, but the 'where possible' is a…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Of course.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I just want to say that I don't think we're miles apart on this motion at all. The original motion and the Welsh Government's position are not worlds apart at all. We have a preference for undergrounding electricity cables as well. The…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Formally.
