Welsh Labour

Speeches and questions

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

836 speeches and questions

17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
It's £1.08 million. I think I said £1.8 million, so my apologies.
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Chair, could I just say—? I think I gave the wrong figure in the last question that I answered from Gareth Davies, about the money from the Family Fund. I don't know if we can correct that.
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thanks very much, Joyce, for that question. I can assure you that we've looked intently at all areas of our work to see if any reductions can be made, and so we did certainly look at the spending on the national office, which is a relatively small amount…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Yes, we're aware, in this cost-of-living crisis, that disabled people is one group that's usually disproportionately affected by such a crisis, and we want to do all we can to help. We are involved in all the different forums with Disability Wales and the…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Well, as the Minister has already referred to, I think it's roughly a third of people who don't pay anything, any charges at all, and a third pay the top amount—the £100 cap—and there's a third in the middle. And obviously, the points you make, we absolutely…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Well, this is something that we are considering, as I think I told you in the Chamber last week. Officials are in the process of looking at how this is going to progress at the moment. And obviously we absolutely understand that this will be of concern to the…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Well, the Minister for Finance and Local Government, under whose budget the real living wage comes, she has confirmed that there's funding within the revenue settlement to support payment of the real living wage for social care workers. And that was in her…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
This has all been done in the interests of children. The system as it is is not sustainable.
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
They do; they totally depend on public money.
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
I think what local authorities would tell you is that children's services are not in a good state now and we want to move to a much better situation. That's why we want to transform children's services. We're not satisfied with the way that they are being…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Young people have told us that they don't want to be placed in services where people profit, and in many cases the profits that are made are very high from the position that they're in. It's not only because we think it's right to do this; it's also prudent…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
We want to give the young people and the children who have to be looked after by local authorities, by the Welsh Government, the best chance in life. We think that this is the best way of giving the best chance in life. This is what young people have told us…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thanks very much for that question. Certainly, in terms of the evaluation of the legislation, I think there's universal agreement that we've got the right legislation—person focused, looking at individual needs. But in terms of implementation, that's where I…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Yes. Well, I think I would repeat what I said in the previous answer that, in fact, the local authorities are accountable politically to their own public in their areas. So, there is a different set-up than the health boards. But what we want as a Government…
17 January 2024Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-2025: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you very much, Sarah, for that question, and bore da. Well, in 2024-25, local authorities will receive £5.7 billion from the Welsh Government in core revenue funding, and that will be an increase of 3.1 per cent—and that's about £170 million—because we…
17 January 2024Plenary
Short Debate: Structuring a social care system fit for a twenty-first century Wales
Thank you very much for your time today.
17 January 2024Plenary
Short Debate: Structuring a social care system fit for a twenty-first century Wales
Yes. Thank you very much. Again, I agree with that point, and, as you know, we have set up the social care fair work forum, which has produced proposals for progression within the social care field and we have actually consulted on those proposals. But that…
17 January 2024Plenary
Short Debate: Structuring a social care system fit for a twenty-first century Wales
I'd like to thank my colleague the Member for the Vale of Clwyd for putting forward this important subject today and, also, for stressing the importance of the care system to society as a whole. I'm deeply committed to ensuring that our most vulnerable…
17 January 2024Plenary
Short Debate: Structuring a social care system fit for a twenty-first century Wales
Thank you for the opportunity to reply to this debate.
11 January 2024Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
Yes, absolutely. I agree.
11 January 2024Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
I work very closely with the education Minister, particularly on issues related to where there's extra help needed. As I mentioned earlier on, one of the key elements of our Flying Start programme is speech and language development. So, that means children in…
11 January 2024Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
Yes, I think that's an important point to take away.
11 January 2024Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
Yes, of course.
11 January 2024Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
Obviously, I think this is a very crucial area, and in terms of the Minister for Education, I know that he's aware of that. In terms of whether there's enough money in the budget, certainly the commitment is there to ensure that this does progress because…
11 January 2024Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
I think this goes back to the differentiation between the two policies, because what we're doing for two-year-olds is extending Flying Start, which is 12.5 hours per week, but with the full Flying Start programmes done in conjunction with speech and language…