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Llywydd, I thank the Member for that question, and I welcome the Hendy review's support for our metro and the Burns commission recommendations. The Deputy Minister for Climate Change will meet the UK Minister responsible for the review on 15 December to…
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I thank Jack Sargeant, Llywydd, for all of that, and absolutely pass my congratulations to those young people for their commitment to this agenda and their interest in it. I think that they are typical of young people in all parts of Wales. I've had the…
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The Welsh Government funds a number of initiatives in Wales in this area, including Keep Wales Tidy’s eco-schools programme, empowering young people to make positive environmental changes to their school and community, and to take action on climate change.
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Well, Llywydd, I thank Alun Davies for that. I was very pleased to see the full Hendy review, Llywydd. I was pleased to see the way that it endorsed the Welsh approach to improving transport across Wales, that it should be multi-modal, that it should involve…
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Llywydd, I am grateful to all our colleagues working in public services across Wales, including Blaenau Gwent, for their commitment to the delivery of services in our communities. They're crucial in helping protect our people and, indeed, our way of life, as…
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I thank the Member for that important question, Llywydd. He's absolutely right that, by the end of September, the £30 million, which was the second phase of the cultural recovery fund, had all been allocated. I spoke to the senior Welsh Government officials…
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I thank the Member for that, Llywydd. Theatres have been strongly supported in Wales during the pandemic, both from the £93 million cultural recovery fund and the freelancer fund—a recovery stream uniquely available in Wales. Theatr Hafren in the Member's own…
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I thank Jenny Rathbone for those really important points, and for her very strong support for school meals per se, but also the quality and the nature of those meals. The Member, I know, will be aware of Carmarthenshire council’s challenge fund project, which…
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I thank Jenny Rathbone for that, Llywydd. We are committed to increasing the amount of locally grown food in school meals, benefiting local economies through sustainable and responsible procurement and supply chains. An extension to the successful Big Bocs…
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Llywydd, I thank Buffy Williams for that. She's absolutely right to point to the vital importance of the social care workforce and the pressures that it too is under. There are actions that could be taken to help us to alleviate that. On 12 October, Ministers…
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I thank the Member for that important question, Llywydd. Improved remuneration, free training and professional recognition are amongst the actions being taken, with partners, to help build the social care workforce in Wales.
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Well, Llywydd, I don't agree with what the Member said. Wales has the most generous scheme of business rate support anywhere in the United Kingdom, and that isn't just at the moment, when Welsh businesses have had a year's guarantee of a holiday from business…
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I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for that. I, like him, look forward to being with small businesses on Saturday next—Small Business Saturday—and to be talking to businesses about the help that they've received already from the Welsh Government and the new help that…
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Llywydd, as the cornerstone of communities across Wales, we remain wholly committed to supporting small businesses in Ogmore and all parts of Wales to prosper, sustain and grow through key services, including Business Wales and the Development Bank of Wales.
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Well, Llywydd, the leader of Plaid Cymru had an opportunity to go to Llanelwedd today. I spent Friday evening in the company of Clwb Cinio Caerfyrddin, and a very fine evening it was too. I was surrounded by people who work in the farming industry, and what…
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Well, Llywydd, the Minister, Julie James and the Minister, Lesley Griffiths, have met with unions to discuss what we hear is actually happening at present. The important thing for us is to collect this information to be clear about the situation and what is…
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Well, Llywydd, may I begin by congratulating everybody that has been part of creating the winter fair in Builth Wells, in a way that is appropriate to the context? I had an opportunity to speak to the Minister, Lesley Griffiths, about her visit to Builth…
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Llywydd, the Member would do better not to read out his pre-prepared scripts for us, because then he would have had a chance to listen to the answers rather than reading out what he was going to say, whatever the answer happened to be. I'm afraid his…
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Llywydd, more people work in the Welsh NHS today than at any other time in its history, and that includes more doctors, more nurses, more physiotherapists, more occupational therapists, and all the team that go into providing services for the Welsh public…
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No, I don't in that simplistic way, Llywydd. The Member, of course, is right that the NHS in Wales is struggling under the demands that it is currently having to address, and that is about to get worse and more difficult because of the new variant that has…
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Well, Llywydd, I've explained previously on the floor of the Senedd that, as far as child poverty is concerned, the devolution period can be very easily divided into two periods. In the first period, the first decade, with a Labour Government at Westminster…
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Thank you very much for that question, of course, and I thank the Member for what she said about the agreement. We now have opportunities to take further steps, by extending free school meals and childcare provision. The Government will focus on what is…
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May I thank Sioned Williams very much for the question, Llywydd? Despite the head winds created by the United Kingdom Government, we will pursue the measures set out in our programme for government and the co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru to bear down…
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I thank the Member for those questions and for her consistent interest in this whole topic. She will be very familiar with the scheme that was tried out in Conwy earlier in the year, and a great deal of learning has been taken from that, as well as a pilot…
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Well, the first step, Llywydd, was for us to take the powers. Without the powers, there'd be no opportunity for us to have any kind of scheme, and that is not in our hands as a Senedd; we have to draw the powers back to this place in order to be able to have…
