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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Well, Amgueddfa Cymru is absolutely an integral part of our heritage and our society. We have tried to act to mitigate the full scale of the financial pressures, but there was just no budget flexibility, unfortunately, which could prevent significant…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Deputy Presiding Officer, I understand you've given your permission for questions 3 and 4 to be grouped. We are working with Amgueddfa Cymru to develop a plan to address the maintenance issues at National Museum Cardiff. I met the chief executive and chair…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Well, that point has not been raised with me. Obviously, the portfolios are a matter for the First Minister, but I will be very happy to speak to both my colleague the Minister with responsibility for early years and also mental health and with the First…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you very much. I look forward to working with the Member on many shared agenda issues going forward. I'm very keen to meet with people from Stolen Lives. When I was the health Minister, I did a significant piece of work around this, because it was very…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
I believe that sport should be a place where everyone can be themselves, where everyone can take part, where everyone is treated with kindness, dignity and respect. It's very wide-ranging, and I think we cannot have a uniform approach to what is a really…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Well, I'm certainly not being flippant. What I want is—. I think what most people want to do and say is absolutely the right thing, and find the discussion that often takes place here very bewildering and overwhelming. And I'm just trying to ensure that—I'm…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Well, Laura Anne Jones is nothing if not predictable. I can assure you that we continue to work towards our commitment in the LGBTQ+ action plan, engaging with children, with young people and with their families when we are considering options for a range of…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you. I had a meeting this morning with Councillor Anthony Hunt, as part of his responsibilities with the Welsh Local Government Association, to see what more we can do in our fight against, not just child poverty, but poverty per se. So, I will be…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
As you say, the First Minister made it very clear last week during the Plenary session that the fight to lift children out of poverty will absolutely be at the heart of the Welsh Government’s mission and we will do everything we can to make sure children grow…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you. We are doing everything we can to mitigate the impact of child poverty across Wales, including those living in Cynon Valley. Our child poverty strategy outlines the actions we will be taking to tackle child poverty and improve outcomes for those…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you. I saw just before I came into the Chamber that Frank Field had unfortunately passed away, and obviously he did a huge amount of work in this area. I’ve already outlined the work that has been undertaken and will continue to be undertaken and how…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
You make a very important point around the way we can tackle child poverty, and I mentioned it: it has to be a cross-Government approach. Within the Welsh Government we don’t have all the levers, but within my own portfolio, I don’t have all the levers, so it…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you. I can certainly assure Jane Dodds and all Members that I am not complacent. Obviously, I've just come into this portfolio and, as you say, unfortunately, we have seen a rise in the number of children in relative poverty. It went up 1 per cent from…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
We are developing a framework of indicators and measures of child poverty informed by Professor Rod Hick from Cardiff University and our external reference group. A policy progress report and evidence from those with lived experience of poverty will also be…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
Diolch, Llywydd. The Welsh Government is one of the bodies in Wales that falls within the remit of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales. We have no role in their appointment, the funding of their office or any oversight of their operations or funding. It…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
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Topical Questions
Well, I'm sure my predecessor did undertake that work. I haven't had the opportunity to have a look at it. We often hear this, don't we, that a pound generates multiple pounds in return, and I think it is very important to understand that there will have to…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, and, certainly, Welsh Government is committed to not charging to go into our museums. As I say, I had a very brief discussion with the chief executive yesterday around that, and she assured me that was still the view as well. I absolutely agree. If…
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Topical Questions
I don't disagree with anything Alun has said. I'm going to visit the museum on Tuesday. It's probably about two years since I dropped in there, and I went to see the Richard Burton exhibition as the last thing I saw at the museum. It is really important that…
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Topical Questions
I absolutely agree, and I recognise that I'm going to be a custodian for a very, very short time, and it is really important that we do all we can, but I do think that my officials and the officials working at the museum—. And I have to say their relationship…
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Topical Questions
Thank you. I haven't had that discussion as yet, but I mentioned in my original answer to Heledd Fychan that I am meeting with the chair and chief exec to have a much wider discussion tomorrow, and that will, obviously, be part of it. When I did speak with…
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Topical Questions
Well, thank you. The consultation hasn't begun yet, and I've asked to have a pause so that I can look at that document. I appreciate the work that had gone into it by my predecessor and by the designated Member, but it hasn't actually gone out to consultation…
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Topical Questions
Thank you very much, and thank you for your words of welcome. I too have always believed that arts are the great redeemer of life, so I'm very, very pleased to have been appointed to the culture portfolio, and I quite agree with you, that link between social…
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Topical Questions
Diolch. My officials continue to work with Amgueddfa Cymru to develop a plan to address the urgent maintenance issues at our National Museum Cardiff. I met with the chief executive yesterday, who assured me there are no plans to close the museum. However, I…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Vaughan Gething.
