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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Okay. Sorry, Rhianon, back to you.
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Rhianon, before you come to your next question, can I just come in on a very quick supplementary, if I may? Because it's become custom and practice for the standards committee in the Senedd, over a number of terms, to produce reports calling for the…
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Can I come in on—
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Thank you. I'll bring in Rhianon Passmore, please.
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Thank you very much indeed. Can I bring in Natasha Asghar, please?
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Yes, please, and your earlier offer to share confidentially the developing document for our comment. I'll now invite other Members to develop our lines of questioning with you, starting with Mike Hedges. So, over to you, Mike.
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Of course, it should be a living document, but it should, in my view—and, obviously, the committee may share my view or not; we'll discuss that later in private—be publicly accountable and transparent. And in that context, in his consultation response…
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Thank you. I'm sure you'll appreciate that non-disclosure generates concerns that may not be merited, and therefore I'd suggest it is in everyone's interest for this to be fully in the public domain, provided it doesn't create risks for individuals in terms…
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Will the Welsh Government be publishing its Cabinet handbook, either in full or redacted form, given your statements, and, if so, when can we expect that to happen?
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Diolch; thank you. I appreciate that you have a colleague who had been planning to attend, but, for genuine personal reasons, he's unable to be with us this morning. So, we thank you for, nonetheless, joining us today. As you might expect, we have a number of…
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Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
That takes us to our first session, which is on the Cabinet handbook and ministerial code. I'd be grateful if the participant of this meeting—our witness, who is known well to this committee—could formally identify himself and state his role for the record.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da and croeso. Good morning and welcome to the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee meeting in the Senedd this morning. The meeting is bilingual. Headsets provide simultaneous translation on channel 1 and sound amplification on channel 2…
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Short Debate: A fair chance—Ensuring blind and partially sighted people can live the life they choose
It's now 21 years since I first attended a Guide Dogs Cymru event here, highlighting the need to make shared streets and outdoor public places more accessible for people living with a vision impairment. More recently, their campaign for safer streets has also…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Women's healthcare
That's it. Thank you. Diolch. [Laughter.]
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Women's healthcare
Wales has some of the worst survival rates for ovarian cancer in Europe. Over 300 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year in Wales, and more women die as a result of ovarian cancer in the UK than any or all other gynaecological cancers combined, yet…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Housing associations have raised concerns with me that, because they’re taking more tenant allocations from priority lists and therefore working with people in crisis or post crisis, this is having a big impact, where the needs of tenants are becoming more…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: More homes towards ending homelessness
—that if Cardiff and Swansea are excluded, over 5,500 private rented homes have been lost since 2021. Finally, therefore, will the Welsh Government recognise that when the public, private and third sectors come together, they can do remarkable things?
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: More homes towards ending homelessness
Wales is in a housing emergency, with more than 11,000 people homeless and trapped in temporary accommodation, and almost 140,000 on social housing waiting lists. The Labour Welsh Government slashed funding for housing from 1999, ignoring repeated warnings of…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I call for a single Welsh Government statement on sign language rights. Last week was this year's International Week of Deaf People, a time when people come together to recognise and celebrate the vibrant deaf community. This year's theme is 'Sign Up for Sign…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Well, I hope you will include this in your discussions with the education tribunal, because that is within your remit, as I understood, now, was Welsh Government delivery, so not to question the rights and wrongs of the policies, but to ensure that delivery…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
As indicated, that case in Scotland has significant implications for all UK nations. Staying with the legal implications of Government policies, we heard in May, during a Petitions Committee debate, that far too many children and young people are unable to…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Llywydd. The Labour UK Government's Chancellor, as you know, scrapped winter fuel payments worth up to £300 universally for pensioners in July. They now admit that no impact assessment was carried out on a policy that will affect an estimated 500,000…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
There is much in this motion to commend it. Clearly, it is regrettable that, after 25 years in Government, this Labour Welsh Government could not identify the priorities of the people of Wales without conducting the listening exercise initiated by the First…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
They found that reducing speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph had little impact on road safety. You dismissed that. They claimed in September 2023 that, in Spain, which already had 20 mph as their default position, deaths and accidents had fallen despite the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Oh, yes. One intervention.
