Mark Drakeford

4 June 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Consultation on the School Year

Diolch, Llywydd. When those children go away in July, in those six weeks, they will not see a book, they will have no opportunity to play in a way that allows them to appreciate what maths can do for them in their lives, and when they come back in September…

4 June 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Consultation on the School Year

Diolch, Llywydd. Those children, in July, have had the benefit of everything that that school can do. [Interruption.] And then those children go away—

4 June 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Consultation on the School Year

I listened carefully to the Cabinet Secretary's disappointing statement this afternoon. I noticed that she chose to begin and end her statement by referring to her commitment to the best interest of children. Of course, the quality of her commitment is not an…

3 June 2024, Standards of Conduct Committee

Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 2

[Inaudible.]—interruptions on the line, but I think I heard all of Mr Bain's views there. So, I just want to check I did understand him as saying that, in his view, it would not be satisfactory for a petition to be triggered and for 10 per cent of the…

3 June 2024, Standards of Conduct Committee

Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 2

Good morning. So, we're making the assumption that the petition has been triggered, the threshold has been met, what happens next?

3 June 2024, Standards of Conduct Committee

Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 1

Obviously, you've not been barred, because you'd have had all the time that it took to get to the 10 per cent threshold in which to register your discontent. So, nobody's being barred here; it would take weeks. If you look at any Westminster petition, those…