, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Why?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Sorry, I was happy to wait, but I was intrigued by what Rebecca Williams said about what more she'd like to see in the Bill about strengthening Welsh as a subject. I wonder if she could elaborate on that, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Okay, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Okay. Well, sure, I think that's more hope than it is evidence is my concern. Just one brief question, just to get it on the record. I'm sure the answer to this is 'yes', but, currently, it's only the Welsh Language Commissioner who is formally consulted on…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Sure, I understand your aspiration and your hope for that, but I'm just thinking of other parallels. Let's think, for example, of climate change, which is a similarly transformative programme, which has a legal target to achieve a figure by 2050. I'm not…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Diolch. If I can just test your argument a little about the need for the 1 million target to be in statute, because it strikes me, from the evidence we've had, there are a range of challenges facing our ability to reach that target. They're complex, they're…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
I heard you say there was a feeling that Members shouldn't be squashed up on benches at the back, which you said in your evidence to the Finance Committee is one of the capital pressures that are putting the budget up. Given the unease at the significant rise…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Of course, something like a quarter of all school funding goes on the cost of school transport, and one of the recommendations of the review of the learner travel Measure was to look at how more journeys could be made by active travel, and that requires…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Great, diolch.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Could I just ask you to add into your answer to elaborate on your point in your paper about the need for measurable indicators on the efficacy of a foundational economy, which shapes investment, and the overall idea of what they might look like?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Do you know how we might do that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
But I thought you were sceptical of them.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Yes.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
But isn't that what a community of practice can achieve?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Thinking of the projects you've all been involved in, have they been evaluated, has the learning from those been shared and spread?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Yes.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Do you have any suggestions?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
So, I think what we're searching for here are some recommendations on how we scale good practice.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Is there a model that you've come across that works better?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Thank you. I just want to develop the question of sharing and spreading good practice, really. What role do you think there should be for communities of practice? I'm aware that there is one that I'm told is fairly successful for the Welsh Government's…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Diolch.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
But isn't that a good example of good practice emerging, but then how do we scale it and spread it?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Just to ask you on that, because much of the evidence is about additional grants, additional funding, how about making sure that, for the money we've already spent, these values are mainstreamed into that? So, take the social housing grant as an example. I…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
I just want to develop Iwan's point about the high-growth sectors and the fixation on that. It strikes me that part of the problem the foundational economy has—and whether you use the term is irrelevant, I agree—is it's not seen as sexy; it's seen as low…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Relatively good.
