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Papers to note
Thank you. Adam Price.
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Papers to note
Natasha.
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Papers to note
We have several items or papers to note. The first is a letter from the Welsh Government's chief operating officers group on public appointments. This follows our session with the Welsh Government on 14 December 2023 in relation to our inquiry into public…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
No. Right. Presumably it's on your general register, anyhow. Thank you.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to this morning's meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd. No apologies for absence have been received. One of our Members is yet to join us, through no fault of her own—traffic problems, so…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Wales-specific COVID inquiry
Do you share my concern that both COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru and their barristers, speaking in the Senedd, directly contradicted what the Counsel General has just said and which you've just requoted from him?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Wales-specific COVID inquiry
Have you finished, Minister?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Well, let me start by thanking staff in the health board's audiology, speech and language and vascular screening departments for the excellent service they've given me personally over recent months. However, my personal experience with some of the departments…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Well, questioning you here last month, I quoted Arriva Bus Wales, whose head of commercial north-west and Wales told me, quote: 'As we discussed in Wrexham, Arriva do not want to change services, but have to because of 20 mph...because of 20 mph, the buses…
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2024-25
Will you give way?
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2024-25
As we've heard, funding for the four Welsh police forces is delivered through a three-way arrangement involving the Home Office, Welsh Government and council tax, with the Home Office operating a needs-based formula with a floor mechanism to distribute…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Welsh Benefits System and Charter
In your reply, you stated that all 22 local authorities have signed up to the charter. Have they agreed when they will implement a Welsh benefits system by, and, if so, when is this? Further, have they agreed to implement this on a uniform basis across Wales…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Welsh Benefits System and Charter
Questioning you here three weeks ago on the Welsh benefits charter, I noted that for almost a decade, service providers and researchers across the sector have been calling for a coherent and integrated Welsh benefits system for all the means-tested benefits…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Nation of Sanctuary update
Russia is a country that is a magnificent country, and its people deserve so much better than Vladimir Putin and his fascist gang. With the anniversary of Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine next Saturday approaching, and with his barbarous attempts to…
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Questions to the First Minister
Last month, I co-sponsored a migraine awareness event here in the Senedd with Jayne Bryant MS and Luke Fletcher MS. Migraine is a common condition affecting one in seven adults, and one in 10 children across the UK—around 10 million people, including 450,000…
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Questions to the First Minister
8. How is the Welsh Government supporting people who suffer from migraines? OQ60691
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Short Debate: Faster access to hearing services in Wales
Two years ago I met Specsavers with the chief executive officer of the Wales Council for Deaf People to discuss how the optical industry could help NHS Wales improve access to NHS hearing loss services. Early last year, however, a written response from the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Housing supply
—and they cynically slashed funding for social housing from 1997, setting in train the housing supply crisis that was to follow. I suggest all of you look at the StatsWales figures and compare the new social housing provided and total housing provided 40…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Housing supply
Diolch. I thank Janet Finch-Saunders for opening the debate and all speakers for contributing. Janet highlighted one of the lowest completions of new dwellings in Wales since records began, and the rapid increase in demand for rental homes as the number in…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
At the time of the Labour UK Government's March 2010 UK budget, the then Labour Chancellor admitted that Labour's planned cuts in public spending would be, quote, 'deeper and tougher' than in the 1980s, which followed economic meltdown under Wilson, Callaghan…
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Questions to the First Minister
Of course, the UK Bus Services Act 2017 introduced reforms in England seven years ago. Although it is now more than two decades since I first raised the need to embed the lived experience of disabled people in plans and designs for local environments and…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, Members, I propose that, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today's meeting. Are all Members content? Thank you. I see that all Members are content. I'd be grateful if we could go…
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Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Okay, thank you. That brings Members' questions to a conclusion for today, so, thank you, all, for attending and answering our questions. As you'll be aware, a transcript of today's meeting will be published in draft form and shared with you to check for…
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Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
And one final, short question: what is the latest timetable for introduction of the building safety (Wales) Bill to the Senedd?
