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Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
As you paint the picture, this has become a convention for this process to be followed, or at least offered. Is there any formal guidance in relation to this?
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Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Am I right, having spoken with people who've been involved with these in the past, that you would also advise on how realistic the costings indicated by the manifestos are?
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Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Thank you very much indeed. I'll ask the first question, actually leading on from that point. Given your indication that the door is open but there's no formal process for those access talks, is there any established convention or guidance in terms of the…
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Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
We would never use such words in this committee. [Laughter.]
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Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Thank you very much indeed. Well, can I start by inviting you to brief the committee before we open up with some questions to you around this?
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Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Well, that's the only paper to note this morning, taking us straight to our primary agenda item today, which is an evidence session on access talks and the Cabinet manual, which will work around a technical briefing with the Welsh Government and I welcome…
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Papers to Note
Okay, Members, do you have any responses or comments, and could you indicate whether you're content to further explore the matters referred to now or in the future? Any thoughts, ideas, comments, or are you all content just to note and include in our future…
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Papers to Note
In which case we will move on to papers to note, and initially referring to responses to our report on the scrutiny of the accounts of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales 2022-23. The committee published this report on 5 March this year, making 13…
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Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da. Croeso. Good morning and welcome to this morning's meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd, the Welsh Parliament. This meeting is bilingual, and headsets provide simultaneous translation on channel 1 and sound…
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Debate on petition P-06-1407, 'We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law'
It was referred to by your predecessor when in this role the situation in Spain, where the default was introduced in 2020, I believe. What consideration will you give to the actual increase in fatalities amongst vulnerable users—walkers, cyclists…
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Debate on petition P-06-1407, 'We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law'
Oh, I'm sorry.
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Debate on petition P-06-1407, 'We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law'
Thank you, and, of course—
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Debate on petition P-06-1407, 'We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law'
Would you give way?
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Well, access to public services for deaf BSL signers is being held back by the lack of provision of BSL interpreters. The manager for the Wales Interpretation and Translation Service, WITS, attended the last meeting of the cross-party group on deaf issues…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Diolch. Thank you. After reports in February that Cardiff-based FleetEV had agreed a multimillion pound deal with the Welsh Government to supply electric vehicles, I was contacted by a senior transport professional in north Wales, expressing concern that the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
2. How is the Welsh Government supporting the use of eco-friendly vehicles on the transport network in Wales? OQ61139
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Questions to the Counsel General
Thank you. My final question on this theme: responding to your statement here last June on tribunal reform and Wales's evolving judicial landscape, I again raised concerns with you that vulnerable children and their families in Wales were being let down…
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Questions to the Counsel General
Thank you. You referred to the independence of the tribunals. As you develop the legislative changes you propose to reform the tribunals system in Wales, how will you respond to the 94 per cent of positive responses to the question in the consultation asking…
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Questions to the Counsel General
In June 2023, you published a White Paper consultation entitled 'A new tribunal system for Wales', which closed last October, after receiving just 54 responses. As you know, the proposals in the White Paper set out the intention to create a unified tribunal…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding
GP practices are not only a local lifeline for patients, but they also alleviate pressures on Welsh hospitals, saving costs for health boards. It has therefore been the worst kind of dumb health economics to progressively cut their share of NHS Wales funding…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Llywydd. Also questioning the First Minister about this yesterday, I noted that the International Energy Agency defines energy security as the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price, that current levels of energy…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
Thank you. Well, the 182-day rule means that legitimate, well-established, local self-catering businesses have become liable to pay council tax, sometimes at a premium rate. When the secondary legislation introducing this threshold was proposed, the sector…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
1. What consideration is the Cabinet Secretary giving to council tax reform in Wales? OQ61083
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Questions to the First Minister
Plans to create gas-fired plants in Arfon have referred to the need to shift away from a dependency on fossil fuels to generate energy. The International Energy Agency defines energy security as the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public
So, I now propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today's meeting and for the entirety of the meeting next Wednesday, 15 May. Are all Members content? Thank you. I note that all…
