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Happy new year to Jane Dodds, and I thank her for her question.
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It's simply not possible, Llywydd, when your budget has been squeezed to the extent that ours has, to go on filling gaps left in services for which this Senedd is not responsible. We will still provide over £15 million to support PCSOs here in Wales. But the…
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I thank Cefin Campbell for those supplementary questions. Of course, we do appreciate the work that PCSOs do here in Wales. That's why the Government invested in PCSOs at a time when the number of people working for the police had fallen after cuts from the…
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I thank Cefin Campbell for the question. Next year's revenue budget is worth £1.3 billion less than Chancellor Sunak said was needed for Wales when setting that budget in October 2021. The draft budget focuses on those community safety responsibilities…
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Huw Irranca-Davies points to a fundamental problem here, and that is the way that the apprenticeship levy operates. I was the finance Minister, Llywydd, on the day that the UK Government announced that Wales would be getting, as I recall, £109 million extra…
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Llywydd, as I said in my original answer, Welsh Government officials met with all 10 apprenticeship providers in Wales just before the Christmas recess, and those conversations will continue. And they will certainly have met with providers in the…
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Well, Llywydd, as I said, our conversations with the sector continue. What I can say is that even with the reductions that have had to be made in the budget for next year—reductions, by the way, made up not simply of the fact that our budget is worth £1.3…
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Llywydd, Welsh Government officials met with all 10 apprenticeship providers in Wales prior to the Christmas recess. We will continue to discuss with the sector how best value can be achieved from the £138 million that will be invested in apprenticeships in…
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Well, I thank the Member for Bridgend for that extra question, Llywydd. The Cambridge study was, I thought, very interesting, because it does demonstrate that while there is a lot you can do, through motivation and encouragement and so on, the fundamental…
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Well, Llywydd, I look forward to the proposals of the Conservative Party during the budget process. They will find they're not able to spend money twice; so money that's been spent already will not be available to fund their plans. The revenue support grant…
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Llywydd, sustained investment in twenty-first century facilities, a new Curriculum for Wales, and a continuous focus on the quality of teaching in the classroom are amongst the measures being taken to improve educational outcomes in Wales.
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Well, Llywydd, another application to join the Labour Party—the second we've had this afternoon. I've set out our policy. It is set out; it is our policy as is set out in our LGBTQ action plan, and that is to recognise the rights of trans people here in…
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Llywydd, gender recognition is a reserved matter. Our commitments on gender recognition and supporting trans individuals remain as detailed in our LGBTQ+ action plan, and outlined in our programme for government and the co-operation agreement.
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Well, Llywydd, the reason that the Government supported the Plaid Cymru amendment is that it was Government policy, because I said the very first time I was asked a question about 20 mph policy that, of course, a change of this magnitude would need some time…
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Well, Llywydd, I think we'd be more open to lessons in the Labour Party about how we conduct our leadership election campaigns if we were being talked to by a party that had a leadership election in the first place.
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Well, Llywydd, the leader of Plaid Cymu's obsessive interest in the Labour Party continues. I'm quite happy to start the new year by sending him an application form, and then he'll be able to take part in the affairs of the party to which he devotes most of…
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Well, Llywydd, there is a series of points in there, but surely the most significant of all, and the one of which he should be deeply ashamed, is his suggestion that it is somehow legitimate to break a law simply because you think it is a bad law…
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Well, Llywydd, we've had a discussion already this afternoon about deliberate misinformation, and the leader of the opposition continues to do that here this afternoon. He says that this is a blanket ban. He knows absolutely that it is not a blanket policy…
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Well, the difference is, Llywydd, that that is not what I said. [Laughter.] That's the first difference. What I said was, in answer to a question, that the enforcement authorities in Wales will pursue the same policy in relation to 20 mph zones as we became…
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Well, Llywydd, I thank Adam Price for those important points. I definitely do want Wales to be on the front line of that effort, and there are things that we are doing already in Wales. On 1 November, the new digital imprints regime was instituted here in…
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Well, Llywydd, the Member talked about self-selected information and then continued to offer us exactly that. Let us take the two examples that he offers. The claims that were made, set out in the Welsh Government's documentation, around 20 mph zones were…
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Well, Llywydd, I'm aware of the story to which Ken Skates refers, and it is both utterly untrue and utterly irresponsible to make such claims. Here were a group of young people of their own volition looking to make sure that others who might come to their…
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Llywydd, online misinformation is a deeply harmful but contemporary feature of all democratic societies. We work with groups within Wales and across the UK to combat the misinformation itself, to help informed citizens to identify misinformation and to…
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Well, of course, I don't agree with Mabon ap Gwynfor. What he says is not true about health services here in Wales. More people work for the public NHS in Wales than at any time in the history of the health service. Of course, there are some people who are…
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Llywydd, I think there are two quite different questions there. Of course, GPs leave the health service, but GPs join the health service as well. In the last year, we saw again a rise in the number of GPs employed in the Welsh NHS, both on a head-count basis…
