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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
So, I suppose, then, if I were to ask you, 'What are the priorities that we need to address to make sure that the young person's guarantee is delivered fully?', data would be one of those things—improved data.
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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
Yes. So, data is a real problem, then.
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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I suppose this is building a bit on some of the stuff that Sam was just talking about. I'm interested in just looking at how effective the young person's guarantee has been in addressing some of those workforce demands in regions across…
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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
Great.
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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
Very quickly. I'd be interested if we can build on that point you've just made around ReAct+ and upfront costs. I'd be really keen to get a better understanding of that.
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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
Great. Diolch.
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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
To be fair, I do think further education colleges do a lot of good work in terms of that contact with students to try and keep them. I can attest to that through the campaign work that I've been doing on increasing education maintenance allowance and…
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Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
So, is it a case that that data has just not been collected, then, and that being why there's no specific data set?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of living pressures and the Young Person's Guarantee - Panel 1
Yes. Just to build on something that Mandy said, actually. In terms of the data that you have around the decisions young people are taking, do you have any data around young people who are in education but are looking, actually, to drop out altogether? So…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Navigating Wales's Brain Drain: Challenges and Solutions
Plaid Cymru have set out the need for a strategy highlighting tai, gwaith, iaith as the potential building blocks for one. Let's explore this further. Let's start with tai, housing. The average house price currently sits at nine to 10 times average earnings…
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Short Debate: Navigating Wales's Brain Drain: Challenges and Solutions
But the migration of young people out of our communities and out of Wales has been a long-standing problem and one that countless policy makers before me have attempted to grapple with. I've mentioned here before a policy document published 52 years ago in…
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Short Debate: Navigating Wales's Brain Drain: Challenges and Solutions
Diolch, Llywydd. And I've agreed to give a minute of time to Adam Price, Peredur Owen Griffiths and Sam Kurtz as well. I think it's very difficult to deny that younger people are today worse off than their parents and grandparents were at the same point in…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
As of June 2023, there were 10,869 people living in temporary accommodation, of which 3,346 were under the age of 16. Now, my office has seen an increase in the number of constituents coming to us from this setting expressing to us how unsuitable the…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that response, Minister.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
8. How is the Welsh Government working with local government colleagues to ensure that people in temporary accommodation have suitable living conditions? OQ59980
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
Delyth mentioned how timely this debate is, and we have a bit of breaking news here ourselves, Delyth: the Welsh Conservatives are now completing their journey to emulate Trumpian politics. We’ve heard this all needs to be revealed by the PM. Well, if the…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Of course, he mentions Cardiff; there's more to Wales than just Cardiff, and I recall a Welsh Government publication highlighting low wages in Cardiff as a reason to invest in Cardiff. Now, on keeping young people here, there's no better place to start than…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
I think it's fair to say that 2023 has been a fairly tough one in terms of news for the economy Minister. We had the announcement at Tata on Friday, roughly 3,000 jobs potentially at risk; 2 Sisters in Llangefni, over 700 jobs lost; Avara Foods, Abergavenny…
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Steel Industry
Firstly, Plaid Cymru stands in solidarity with the workers at the plant in Port Talbot and with our communities, who are no doubt facing anxiety over Friday's announcement, and the potential impact of any job losses will not only be felt in Port Talbot but in…
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Swansea Bay City Deal and North Wales Growth Deal
Very interesting. Thank you very much, Chair.
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Swansea Bay City Deal and North Wales Growth Deal
Hedd, do you want to come in on that?
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Swansea Bay City Deal and North Wales Growth Deal
So, in terms of managing the tensions, has there been an impact on the delivery side of these projects?
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Swansea Bay City Deal and North Wales Growth Deal
Thank you for that. I want to touch on the report compiled by WISERD, and they underlined potential tensions between the Welsh Government preference, namely to work with the regions, and what the UK Government is doing with the funding awarded to the deal…
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Swansea Bay City Deal and North Wales Growth Deal
So, in terms of the ambition, how close do you think the projects are in terms of meeting those targets?
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Swansea Bay City Deal and North Wales Growth Deal
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I'll stick with the north Wales growth deal, so I'll direct questions towards Hedd and Dyfrig. So, the commitment that's been made by the growth deal is that all growth deal projects are going to aim to operate at net zero, achieve a 10 per…
