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Questions to the First Minister
Well, first of all, Llywydd, let me be clear: it is absolute nonsense for any Conservative Minister to claim that we have not asked formally for those powers. We have been in painful discussions with the UK Government over the Thomas commission report ever…
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Questions to the First Minister
First of all, let me agree on this point—it was an astonishing act of political cowardice last night that the Prime Minister of this country failed to back the report of an independent committee of the House of Commons charged with that investigation and…
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Questions to the First Minister
As far as the future of Wales is concerned, there is much in what Rhun ap Iorwerth said that would be a shared ambition by many people across this part the Chamber. I do look forward to go on working with him and with other Members of his party as part of the…
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Questions to the First Minister
To begin, Llywydd, I'd like to say 'welcome back' to Rhun ap Iorwerth to First Minister's questions, as the leader of the opposition said. Best of luck to him in the new post that he's accepted.
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Questions to the First Minister
—time and again out of his way to support here in Wales?
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Questions to the First Minister
I don't think the economic record of the United Kingdom is a laughing matter, nor do I think that, when the leader of the opposition finds himself on such thin ice, simply shouting ever louder at me is a way of disguising the weakness of his position. He's…
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Questions to the First Minister
The best thing that can happen to the Welsh economy is that we have a Labour Government at the United Kingdom level. If there was a single action that we could take to make sure that people here in Wales enjoyed the economic futures that they deserve, it…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm aware, of course, of last week's labour market statistics. The background to them is a serious one for the whole of the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party has crashed the economy, and we now see that working out in the pressures we see in the…
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Questions to the First Minister
I agree with Jenny Rathbone that children are the most persuasive advocates with their own parents about actions that can be taken to improve environment around their own schools. As every Member here in the Senedd, I'm sure, I have visited schools where you…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I agree, of course, that we ought to find all the ways we can to draw on that passionate commitment that young people feel to the future of the planet that they will go on inhabiting. We will meet tomorrow with the Youth Parliament here, in…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Russell George very much for that supplementary question. That is a remarkable combination of problem-solving skills that we saw from the students at Llanidloes. I'm very pleased to agree that we will find someone to talk directly to the school, and…
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Questions to the First Minister
Can I thank Russell George for that question, Llywydd? Our young people are the best advocates for making schools environmentally friendly. The success of the Eco-Schools movement in Wales provides an effective way in which that commitment can be translated…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I've rehearsed this issue with the Member previously. I don't agree with the points she makes, but, far more importantly than my point of view, neither do those people who work in the field. This is a proposal by Qualifications Wales—those people who…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I thank Joyce Watson for those points, and I agree with her basic premise very much that the future in the Welsh economy is going to be the competition for workers to take up the posts that are waiting for workers to fulfil them. And that quite…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I thank Joyce Watson for that question. The Welsh Government works with schools, colleges, employers, and with role models, to ensure that girls and young women are positively encouraged to select STEM-related qualifications and careers.
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
Well, Llywydd, I wish that we had more consular services here in Wales. In some ways, our geography is a bit against us here. I, myself, have met over 20 ambassadors in Wales in the last six months or so. They all point out to me that Wales is a great place…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
I thank Alun Davies for those really important points. I mentioned very briefly in my statement our ambition to be a nation of sanctuary, and nowhere have we lived out that ambition more vividly in the last 15 months than in our attempts to offer a warm…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
Thank you very much to Heledd Fychan for the question. I focused in my statement on the things that we do overseas, but of course, it is true to say that part of the international things that we try to do is to advertise and promote the things we're already…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
Llywydd, I definitely agree with what the Member has said about the importance of attracting visitors to Wales and disrupting some of the more traditional patterns that we've seen in the past. Wales is now a cruise destination in a way that it hasn't been in…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
Llywydd, nobody here in the Senedd would be prepared to support the sorts of actions that the Member has outlined, and nor should a visit to a country be taken as an endorsement of the standards of that country, and they never were during our visit to Qatar…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
As far as CAF is concerned, I was very pleased, when I was in the Basque Country, to meet the head of CAF. They are very positive about the factory that they have established in Wales, with the quality of the workforce, the welcome they've had here, the…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
In relation to the first point that the Member makes, I think it's a complex argument and it's possible for reasonable people to come down on different sides of it. The actions of the Ugandan Government are absolutely to be criticised, and they are absolutely…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
As far as inward investment is concerned, the FDI results for 2022-23 will be published by the UK Government either at the end of this month or early in July. I'm sure the figures will be of interest to the Member. They're under strict embargo, so I mustn't…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
Dirprwy Lywydd, can I thank the leader of the opposition for those questions? I thank him for what he said at the start of his questions about the importance of international relations for Wales and promoting Wales across the world. I absolutely want to…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
This collaborative model around sport has achieved so much already that Wales has been invited to the World Congress on Sports Diplomacy to showcase our model in the Basque Country later this year, another part of the world with particularly strong links to…
