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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Now, our active travel programme obviously does include rural areas, and local authorities are able to put forward on their active travel maps any areas that they would like to identify for improvements, and dedicate that funding in the years that come…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for the question.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. The Welsh Government is committed to enabling more children to walk, scoot and cycle to school. We provide annual grant funding to local authorities to improve active travel routes in the vicinity of schools to achieve this aim, as well as…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I think the thing to remember about the saving from the roads review is there's no immediate saving, because we're continuing to build the roads that were already under way. For example, the Dee bridge is heading for completion later in the year. That is a…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
He is absolutely right that the pattern of bus use in rural areas is trickier. We have tried to prioritise in the work we've been doing with the regional scrums, as we're calling them—the local authorities working on a regional footprint—the preservation of…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for the question.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
First of all, on the cost of bus travel, I would agree with Sam Rowlands that many bus fares have become very high, and that is—just to be clear—a direct consequence of privatisation. Since privatisation, bus fares have risen far sharper than the cost of…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. On the final point, we are still working through with local authorities and TfW to get an accurate picture of the routes that companies are still willing to run in the light of the extra support we've put in place. We are making good progress on…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Carolyn. It’s essential that we get people back into the habit of using public transport. Usage is down since the pandemic right across the world. Discussions are taking place with Transport for Wales, industry partners and trade organisations on…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, and, again, if I can give my condolences to the family of Ashley Rogers for his premature death, which we all regret. There are too many deaths on roads in Wales, some 80 a year, which we've become conditioned to, and we oughtn't to be. In terms of…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. We work closely with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire councils, the highway authorities responsible for road safety in their counties. Since 2019, they have received over £5 million of road safety funding. This year, they’ll receive over £2.5…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I've asked the Member before for her engineering suggestions of how else we completely overhaul the railway line without closing it. I've not had any answers, but there's still time to submit those thoughts. I fear it is inevitable, and many of the people in…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I don't agree with that, because the evidence shows that they are still coming to Cardiff and are still widely appreciated. It is a simple fact of physics that when you have 70,000 people in one place, all trying to leave at the same time, there is going to…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
It is not a blanket policy.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. In those four years, rail infrastructure still has not been devolved to the Welsh Government as we would like. We have taken steps to fund the first stages of the development of a business case in order to protect our aspiration for reopening the…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. We're working hard to improve rail connectivity in north Wales by investing where we have devolved responsibility, including in new trains. Rail infrastructure and services to London remain the UK Government’s responsibility, including the four…
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Short Debate: Vulnerable older home owners living in homes unfit for human habitation
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I thank all Members who have contributed, and Mabon ap Gwynfor for bringing this forward to the Senedd to debate this important topic, because the safety, the dignity, and independence of old people in their own homes is a matter…
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
This will be a difficult policy, there's no doubt about it. This is the biggest change in road safety and in public health in the history of the time the Senedd has been sitting. It's a major change in behaviour for people who have been trained and spent all…
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
Thank you very much, Joyce. I do acknowledge the leadership that you have shown and that John Griffiths has shown over many years on this issue. But let me just quote one statistic to this Senedd: in the distance it takes for a car travelling at 20 mph to…
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
—when it suits them to support local campaigns, we see them in this Chamber supporting the principle of the measure, we see Conservative councils supporting this, and now they're coming out with a party line today where everybody is saying this is a blanket…
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
I'd encourage you to actually go back and read what you said, Janet, three years ago, because you did explicitly endorse the default recommendation of the Phil Jones report. In fact, I've heard the claims of some of the benches that this is an anti-car…
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
Okay, well, I'd encourage you—
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
Of course you can.
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
Thank you to everybody who has contributed to the debate, and to the petitioners. I agree with the comments that it is very healthy that there is a mechanism where there is strong feeling for that to be brought to the Senedd for us to debate. Let me just…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, and the Member makes a strong point. It is typical in schemes around the world to include glass, and that shows to be a much more effective way of doing it. By taking a comprehensive approach, it's much clearer for the consumer, it's easier for the…
