, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Okay. Gwenno Ffrancon.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
[Inaudible.]—given the concerns that you and others have expressed about the finite budgets available, is there a danger of mission creep with what you suggest, and that this gradually starts to get beyond what is resourced or envisaged for?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Yes. Just one brief question for Professor Thomas. You say in your, or you suggest in your, evidence that you envisage a potential wider role for the institute, beyond simply teaching the learning of Welsh, and I just wonder if you could elaborate a little…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
I take from that that you think there should be additional guidance. Do you think that should be statutory guidance within the Bill, or can that sit outside of the Bill?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Thank you. Just briefly on a related point. Professor Thomas, in your written evidence, you mention that there is no guidance regarding ALN children in the immersion units. I wonder if you'd just elaborate a little bit about your point.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Okay. Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Forgive me, that's my mistake. I've mixed your evidence up with—[Inaudible.]
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Thank you. I just want to touch on the National Institute for Learning Welsh. You say, understandably, in your evidence that you're concerned about the budget and you'd like the explanatory memorandum to say more about that, although I'd have thought the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Yes, in part, thank you. My sound's better now; apologies for that. My concern, really, is the transition from the system where the bulk of children currently are in English-medium schools to having far stronger Welsh-medium provision. I agree with that, and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Thank very much. I just want to touch on that entire—[Inaudible.]—points on language categorisation, because, as you said there, you think it's a matter of social justice that it's important that all children get the chance to learn Welsh. 'But', you said…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Sorry. I was just saying I'll probably wait until Tom has finished his questions.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
[Inaudible.]
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
They want a new road traffic regulation order on all of these roads, at £15,000 each, and they say that we're the ones wasting money. Far from a bonfire of regulations, their commonsense approach is a confetti cannon of red tape splurged across Wales. The…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
It's a matter of public record that the 20 mph taskforce report, which came to this Chamber and had the support of the bulk of Conservative Members—excluding Darren Millar—recommended a default speed limit approach, and that was supported by two thirds of the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Let me make some progress. It had the support of the Tory leader at that time, and the bulk of the Tory MSs. It was only when they sensed an opportunity to turn this into a wedge issue that they changed their position. They now say that they want to scrap the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
I think, a year on, it's fair to say that the 20 mph policy has been much criticised, but it's a policy that is succeeding in achieving its outcomes. The data so far shows that average speeds are down, as we said they would be. Collisions on all roads are at…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
You keep misrepresenting the Northern Ireland Belfast study, which was not based on a set of 30 mph roads. It was based on a set of existing 20 mph roads, and what they said is an area-wide speed limit, like the one we introduced, would be more effective…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Will you give way?
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you. Anyone who has tried parking at a hospital knows what a nightmare it can be, and the research also shows that, in most cases, the majority of staff at a hospital live within close distance and work within office hours, and yet drive. And we know…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
2. How many health boards have travel plans in place for both staff and patients, and how are these monitored and reported? OQ61551
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I’d like to turn to the question of active travel, Trefnydd, to request a debate in Government time. There was a report last week from Audit Wales that showed that our ambitions are a long way from being achieved, echoing a report two weeks before that by the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. I appreciate the answer. I do think that units might be a complication and it may be worth having just some additional reflection with the sector just to make sure that the tyres are being properly kicked on that. I have a further question in terms…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
I've got a couple of questions, Chair, if you'll humour me. Just to come back to the point the officials were making on the consultation, I think it might be useful to just reflect on the guidance that’s set out for schools. On the question of exemptions, I…
