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Business Statement and Announcement
I call for a debate in Welsh Government time on the Holden report. Ahead of last Thursday’s publication of this report, exposing serious and extensive problems with patient safety on the Hergest mental health unit in Bangor, a health expert involved in the…
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Questions to the First Minister
In addition to continued cold weather payments and winter fuel payments across the UK, and to the £0.5 billion to support people into jobs announced by the UK Government last month, with £25 million of this going to the Welsh Government, the UK Government…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
En route to decarbonisation, the global energy price crisis has highlighted the current importance of gas as back-up when the energy contribution from intermittent wind and solar energy renewables is low. This fragile system faces further challenges with most…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
4. What plans does the Welsh Government have for sustainable energy efficiency in Wales? OQ57133
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Debate: Remembering and supporting our Armed Forces community in Wales
—and opportunities of the Welsh veterans community, recognising their contribution to UK armed forces. To conclude, I once again express gratitude for the significant contribution made by the armed forces to the COVID-19 response in Wales, emphasise the need…
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Debate: Remembering and supporting our Armed Forces community in Wales
In this centenary year of the Royal British Legion, it is pertinent that our cross-party motion today proposes that this Senedd remembers and recognises the contribution of all those who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces, particularly…
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Questions to the First Minister
On 28 April 2020, the UK Government announced that COVID testing would be extended to all care home staff and residents in England. That was not the case in Wales, with you, First Minister, saying you saw no value to providing tests to everybody in care homes…
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Questions to the First Minister
3. How is the Welsh Government supporting the care sector during the pandemic? OQ57132
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Questions to the First Minister
A Flintshire-based charity providing professional high-quality mental health support and recovery in the community, including a project that empowers young people to build resilience, boost confidence and manage difficult emotions, has told me that school…
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Questions to the First Minister
3. How is the Welsh Government working cross-sector to provide mental health support for children and young people? OQ57035
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Nature, biodiversity and local places for nature
In your statement, you refer to 'improving the condition of habitats to enable some of our most iconic species to have greater freedom to roam', and I was grateful that one of the species you named was the curlew. Further to your very positive and welcome…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Well-being of Future Generations National Implementation
It's regrettable I have insufficient time to question you about our report's recommendations themselves.
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Well-being of Future Generations National Implementation
Well, if Members aren't aware, I'm responding as Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee rather than in a party capacity. Well, as Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee, now abbreviated as PAPAC, I must…
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Questions to the First Minister
Flintshire's child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, is based in Alyn and Deeside. I continue to receive casework where children are denied autism diagnosis by Flintshire CAMHS because they've adopted effective masking and coping strategies in…
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Short Debate: Hands up on Holden—Time for transparency on mental health services in North Wales
Four years after I first raised concerns with the Welsh Government, the 2013 Holden report, commissioned after patient deaths and complaints by 42 staff, warned that the Hergest psychiatric unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd was in serious trouble. I understand that…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
Thank you very much indeed. On Monday, Darren Millar and I visited the Carers Trust North Wales Crossroads Care Services at their new north Wales dementia centre in north Wales. We heard that this is unique in Wales, contracted and funded via Betsi Cadwaladr…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
Will you take an intervention?
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Shared Prosperity Fund and Levelling-up Fund
I'll do my best. Diolch. Wales only continued to be eligible for European structural funding because, despite billions in subsequent rounds, it failed to close the prosperity gap it was intended for, unlike other nations that entered the project at the same…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I would like to call for an urgent Welsh Government statement on GP services in Wales. Although the COVID pandemic has shone a light on these, warnings to the Welsh Government of a GP crisis in Wales long predate this. In 2012, both BMA Cymru and the Royal…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Codes of Welsh law: A programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law
Diolch. In March, your predecessor as Counsel General issued a written statement in which he said that he wanted to ensure that more work to deliver more accessible law would be done in, quote, 'normal' times. He also referred to the passing of the…
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Questions to the First Minister
The policy recommendations for the next Welsh Government, published by Colegau Cymru/Colleges Wales in March, included to build on the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Bill and the consequential impact on 14 to 19 learning pathways to provide a legal basis…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit
—a life dependent on welfare, whilst maintaining flexibility around the discretionary assistance fund. Diolch.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit
Pardon?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit
What I agree with is that it was a temporary uplift introduced in response to COVID-19 and extended beyond the original promised date. Today, welfare spending will still be £241 billion in 2021-22, with over £111 billion on working age welfare, or 4.9 per…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit
Sorry, I missed that. Yes, certainly, Joyce.
