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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you. Anecdotally, I attended an event in north Wales, I believe in July, for Ukrainians who’d arrived, and coaches were literally arriving with new people as we were there. But how were officials working with their UK Government colleagues to plan the…
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Yes, please. Ruth, would you like to elaborate?
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you very much. To what extent do you consider that, as officials, you could or should have advised Ministers to pause the scheme at an earlier stage?
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you. It was reported, certainly last year, that Wales had taken a lower proportion per capita than other UK nations. Is that accurate, and if so, why is that the case?
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Diolch yn fawr. As you would expect, we have several questions. I'd therefore be grateful if Members and our witnesses could be as succinct as possible in their questions and answers so that we can cover as wide a range of these as possible. As convention has…
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Oh, sorry, yes. Sorry, I won't do that again.
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Diolch. Thank you—
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Croeso. Welcome to our witnesses who have now joined the meeting for our next evidence session on supporting Ukrainians in Wales. Could I begin, please, by asking the witnesses to state their names and roles for the record?
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Papers to note
Great. Thank you. Well, we will pick this up—I think it's going to be item 5 on the agenda now—and agree our further course of action, capturing those comments also. So, if we can go into a temporary break—I think a five-minute break—before we reconvene for…
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Papers to note
Thank you. I suspect there will be general consensus with the view expressed, unless I've misread Members. Natasha Asghar.
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Papers to note
Mike Hedges, Adam Price, are you content with that proposed action? Thank you. So, if we could capture that. Otherwise, you're content to note? Thank you. The fourth item to note is correspondence from the Welsh Government director of propriety and ethics…
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Papers to note
So, are you proposing that we capture that in the session in the new year, in January, or that we write to them in the interim, just re-emphasising those points?
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Papers to note
Thank you. The third paper to note, then, relates to correspondence from the Welsh Government director general of the economy, energy and transport group, following up on Cardiff Airport, and actions from the committee's evidence session on the airport on 19…
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Papers to note
Okay. Diolch. Perhaps you could incorporate that in discussions with the other two committees and otherwise capture that for the future work on this matter, after that report is published.
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Papers to note
Thank you. My understanding is that, I believe, in 1999-2000, in the early years of the first Senedd term, or Assembly term as was, the Welsh Government commissioned, I think it was Swansea University, but I could be corrected, to produce a proposed formula…
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Papers to note
Thank you. Any other comments or observations from Members? Because other matters raised—. Oh, sorry, Adam Price.
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Papers to note
That's great. And we know when we rehearsed the issues around Velindre that similar issues have been raised with other Welsh Government procurements—not so much whether they've complied with the relevant criteria and legislation, but whether that has been…
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Papers to note
We have a number of papers to note this morning, the first being a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, written to us following our letter of 27 September this year when we requested further information about the Welsh…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you very much, and it will be.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da, croeso pawb—good morning and welcome, everybody, to the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee this morning in the Senedd, the Welsh Parliament. The meeting, as always, is bilingual. Headsets provide simultaneous translation on channel…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
—by Alistair Darling initially and subsequently those who inherited the mess in 2010.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Can you not see that we're at risk of repeating history if we continue to increase borrowing in this way and the markets lose confidence? We could end up with bigger cuts, as were forced upon us—
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Thank you. You've referred to a few historical budgets that I'd be happy to debate, but there isn't time. Gordon Brown ignored international warnings, including from the IFS, that if he continued to increase borrowing faster than the growth rate of the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Would you give way?
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you, and, of course, they have limited powers to pursue individual cases. But, for over nine years, I've worked with disabled people and others across Flintshire seeking to work with Flintshire County Council to remove all barriers along the Wales…
