, 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…
, 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—
, 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…
, 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…
, 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?
, 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…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 1
Just one last question, Chair, if I could. The system we are describing is one where, at the point at which a petition reaches the threshold, that person has, effectively, lost their seat. What is the merit in keeping the petition open for another six weeks…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 1
The Bill makes provision for political parties to have up to 12 people on the list, so I guess that's not the most likely area of difficulty; you'd have to have a very, very substantial run of bad luck if you couldn't find somebody further down the list. But…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 1
And when the list is exhausted?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 1
Joe, we're just assuming now that the petition has been triggered and the threshold has been met. What happens now?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 1
There is a series of different considerations around this point, isn't there? If you have a system in which once you leave a political party your political career is over, what that means is that people won't leave a political party and they will continue to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that answer. I recently attended the annual Welsh criminology conference in Gregynog and was very heartened to see both the sense of excitement at further devolution that may well come to this Senedd, and the practical sense…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
3. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on preparations for the devolution of the probation service in Wales? OQ61141
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
Well, thanks to the Counsel General for that. I listened carefully to the earlier exchange with Rhys ab Owen on ID cards. I think what Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg actually said, Dirprwy Lywydd, was that the Government's ID policy was a failed attempt at…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
6. What discussions has the Counsel General had with the Electoral Commission concerning the number of Welsh citizens whose names are missing from the electoral register? OQ61157
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that, Llywydd. By the end of this Senedd term, it will be nearly 10 years since the fiscal framework was first negotiated, yet the figures in it, as we have heard, remain stuck at the level that they were agreed back then. In…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
2. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on progress in reviewing the fiscal framework of Wales? OQ61092
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Thank you. So, we've learnt, sadly, in recent times, that uniformed services can be particularly vulnerable to cultures that go wrong. And we've learnt not just in Wales, but more broadly, that those services can be vulnerable to cultures of misogyny…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Can I put one last one, Chair?
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Thank you very much. On to staffing, then. I think you've offered us a very rich account during the morning of the way in which the ambulance service has developed over the last 20 years. It is a very different organisation than it would have been back then…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
You did.
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Thank you very much for those answers. A slightly less provocative question next, and then I will get to the staffing issues, Chair, I promise. Am I remembering correctly that in March 2020 the ambulance service in Wales had met its targets for 48 months…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Chair, thank you very much. I'm going to mostly ask you some questions about staffing, but there were two questions arising out of the discussion so far that I just wanted to test with you first. We have 1,700 people sitting in a hospital bed today in Wales…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Can I congratulate the Cabinet Secretary on the very careful and detailed work she undertook in order to be able to release to residents of South Wales East the location of those category C and D coal tips? Can she confirm that the Secretary of State for…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Llywydd, it's a year to this month since two young men lost their lives on the Ely estate in circumstances that caused such grave concern to the local community. One of the positive things that happened was the sponsorship by the Welsh Government of a…
