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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
5. Does the Welsh Government monitor how local authorities fulfil their duties under the Equality Act 2010? OQ61777
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Well, noting the statement earlier by yourself on support for housing delivery, issued only 50 minutes ago, do you agree that we need a whole-market solution to the housing crisis in Wales? And if so, how will you co-produce, co-design and co-deliver…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you for answering some of the questions, but you didn't respond to the question about the National Residential Landlords Association highlighting an acute shortage of homes for private let and calling for Welsh Government action accordingly. And, of…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you, but the question was: what assurances will you provide that the allocation for affordable homes funding you receive in consequentials from the UK Government will be fully allocated to affordable housing in Wales? Following on from that, last week…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch. Labour Welsh Governments slashed funding for housing from 1999, ignoring repeated warnings of a housing crisis, and setting in train the housing supply crisis, which has led to almost 140,000 people on social housing waiting lists now. The 2012 UK…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Well, let's hope so. But, again, continuing with your discussions with Cabinet Members as Counsel General, the Law Commission for England and Wales is currently reviewing the law on social care for disabled children in England, seeking to make the social care…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you. I'm here articulating the calls by the Law Society, trying to avoid partisan comments. But continuing with your discussions with Cabinet Members as Counsel General, Action for Children published the findings to the Jay review of criminally…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch. When I questioned you here last month, I asked what engagement you’re having with the Law Society in Wales regarding their calls for both improved data on the Welsh legal sector and for Wales to match England’s offer of a level 7 legal apprenticeship…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Assisted dying
As stated in the book The Reality of Assisted Dying, co-edited by Professor Ilora Finlay, Baroness of Llandaff, and Professor Julian C. Hughes, both advocates for a change in the law, those opposing such change are motivated by compassion. But the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
The north-west industrial cluster region stretches from Flintshire and Wrexham through Cheshire, Liverpool city region and greater Manchester into Lancashire. The HyNet North West hydrogen and carbon capture project received £72 million in funding from the…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
There is merit, in terms of completeness, accessibility and accountability, in a technical procedural publication and repeals Bill to both bring together and formalise the procedural arrangements for making and publishing Welsh subordinate legislation and to…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I call for a single statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on support for children and young people with cancer and their families in Wales. The Young Lives vs Cancer 'Running on Empty' research has found that children and young…
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Questions to the First Minister
The then Assembly’s north Wales regional committee took evidence from people from Gwynedd on the affordable housing crisis in October 2003, over 20 years ago, when deliverable solutions were proposed to us, which were ignored by the Labour Welsh Government…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
Okay, Members, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), I propose that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today’s meeting. Are all Members content? I can see that all Members are content, so I’d be grateful if we could be taken…
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you very much indeed. You’ll be very sorry to learn that we’ve reached the end of our questions. [Laughter.] So, thank you very much for attending. As you’d expect, we’ll send you a draft record of the proceedings for you to check before it’s published…
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you. And Rhianon Passmore, finally.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Yes. Adam can finish and then I'll bring you in.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you. Your sound was fine earlier, so I don't know if the gremlins are in the system. Adam. Adam Price.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
No. Sorry, we're not hearing what you're saying. It's breaking up.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
I think we're struggling to hear what you're saying.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Okay. Thank you. Well, amazingly, we've come in on time with a couple of minutes to spare. Do Members have any—? Yes, Rhianon Passmore.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Precisely. Voluntarily adhering to it doesn't mean they necessary follow it.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Okay. The Permanent Secretary told us on 15 April that only some of the unregulated public bodies in Wales follow the governance code on public appointments. Welsh Government's evidence paper for this session states that Welsh Ministers are responsible for…
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you. Specifically, any proposals to amend the Order in Council, so if you could come back to the committee, I'd be grateful for that. What oversight role is there, if any, for the Senedd in deciding which public bodies should be regulated?
