, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Thank you very much. My second detailed question is to do with the party list. So, let's assume for a moment that the arguments you've made this morning would prevail, there would be no by-elections, but in effect it's the next person off the list that would…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Chair, thank you. Counsel General, I've got two slightly detailed questions arising from your exchanges with Peredur, and then I've got a couple of broader questions. If I do the detailed ones first, Peredur asked you about the question of, in a paired…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Now, I heard what you said about not being whipped and so on, but politics is tribal in its nature and, in a two-thirds majority, if it were a Member of a particular party who was being considered, the rest of the Members of that party would have, in effect…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Chair, just on that very final point. Counsel General, I understand the point you make about an objection to the simple majority if there is one party with a majority, but isn't the bigger objection to a two-thirds threshold that it gives a whole series of…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 5
And, 'Why do we ask the same question twice?' is probably what I'm asking you. Is it not better to have not a petition system, but one return to the public? The Senedd believes the triggers have been reached to put that question to you as the electors, but we…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 5
We will simply have a remove system, and then the person will come off the list.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 5
It seems very unlikely to me that we will have a by-election system.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 5
My question was more that we should go back to the public, but do we need to go back to the public twice?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 5
Thank you. I've got about seven minutes before my enforced departure, so if you don't mind, I'm going to put my questions to Professor Clark, and then if I leave during his answer, the rest of you will hear it. Professor Clark, I want to go back to where you…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Isn't this just gesture politics? The Welsh Government is already committed to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. It's stated it many times in many documents. What is the point of just repeating something to which the Government is…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
No, thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations that represent disabled people and carers
Thank you, Chair, and thank you to you all, for the support you've expressed this morning for the principle of providing a choice for people who qualify for continuing healthcare to discharge that through direct payments. Three practical questions, then. If…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with disabled people on proposals to introduce direct payments for Continuing NHS Healthcare
Just one, Chair. If the Bill goes through, what it will do will be to provide a right for people who want to use direct payments for continuing healthcare. It isn't changing the system so that everybody will have direct payments. Many people will choose to…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with disabled people on proposals to introduce direct payments for Continuing NHS Healthcare
Chair, thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for being with us this morning. A special good morning to Nathan, who it's very good to be talking with again. Let's just assume for a minute that the Bill goes through, what it will do will mean that…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 4
Thank you.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 4
Thank you very much. And my second question is about the two-stage process. In your retain-and-replace option, wouldn't it be simpler just to do away with the petition stage, given, as you say, the petitions have all been reached in any case, and given that…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 4
Chair, thank you. Just two questions from me, Professor Tonge: first of all, whether you've done any work around the issue of expenses in the petition system. As you just said, there are expenses for public authorities, but there are expenses that can be…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thank you, Chair. Minister, I was very encouraged, reading your report, by the level of detail that you've provided about your ambitions in learning disability services, because here is a group in society who can't always mobilise voices to speak up for them…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
No, Chair.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Chair. One very final question, which is about timing, because the committee will have heard evidence from those who participate in the current system arguing that a longer period of time is needed to move from the system we have today to the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Minister. So, if the financial case and the ethical case are secure, I just wanted to ask you about the practical case. Because is it not the case that the current market-based system leads to gross distortions in the practical provision of…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Minister. I agree that the financial case for reform is inescapable. Just a question about the ethical case, then. I don't know whether committee members are familiar with the term 'blocks of provision'. It's a term used in the private provision of…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Just four quick questions from me, Minister, about the motivating policies that lie behind the Bill, and particularly the part of the Bill that deals with profit taking in services for children. You will know that the average profit take by a private company…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you very much for the important work that you're doing to put this Bill in front of the Senedd. As the Chair said, we are in Stage 1 and I have questions on some fundamental things that underlie the Bill.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Chair, thank you very much. Good morning, Minister.
