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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
And I think Peter Richards referred to there being not a lot of difference from 10 years ago. Is that fairly consistent throughout that period, or is that a—
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Okay. Thank you very much.
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Okay. Well, moving on, what is your response to concerns about the resources and experience of council teams themselves?
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you. Would Peter Richards like to add to that?
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Yes, please.
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Okay. Well, thank you, both, for being with us. As I say, croeso—welcome. As protocol has it, as Chair, I'll begin the questions and then colleagues will take up the questions subsequently. So, in your view, to what extent is the Welsh Government's timetable…
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Sorry, over to you then, please.
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you for being with us. Are you the only representative today?
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Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Well, that was the only item to note before the main item for today, which is an evidence session for our inquiry into building safety with local authority building control. This follows an Audit Wales, Auditor General for Wales report. I note from its…
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Papers to note
Okay. Thank you.
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Papers to note
Thank you. Any comments from other Members? I note that our recommendation 9, which asked them by the end of last year to publish a clear, realistic and prioritised plan for increasing its engagement with the social care sector—including public, further and…
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Papers to note
We have one paper to note, which is the follow-up to our report on Digital Health and Care Wales. Digital Health and Care Wales provided their response to us and to the Health and Social Care Committee joint report from 16 August. This contained 16…
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Bore da, croeso. Good morning and welcome to today's meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd, Welsh Parliament. We've had one apology from Members, from Rhianon Passmore, otherwise Members are in attendance. Do Members…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
Do you recognise that, at the time of the Scottish referendum on independence, which, of course, you took a different view to myself on, the leaders of the UK Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties pledged to retain the Barnett formula as an offer…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
Would you give way?
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Topical Questions
Of course, Gwynedd Shipping operate from two sites in north Wales, Holyhead and Deeside, as well as from Birkenhead, Belfast and Dublin. What is your understanding of why the company filed for administration when the company's strategic review of its latest…
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Debate: Levelling-up
You refer to delivering outcomes. Are you aware that the three tranches of European funding that Wales received were only supposed to be temporary? It was only for areas of west Wales and the Valleys, including four north Wales councils, where GDP or…
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Debate: Levelling-up
Would you give way?
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Questions to the First Minister
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 sub-postmasters were convicted of fraud, theft or false accounting—the largest miscarriage of justice in UK history. In his discussion with the Hansard Society last week, former Conservative Member of Parliament and now…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Child poverty and educational attainment
Times Education Supplement research, several Senedd terms ago, showed that the best-performing schools in the most deprived areas of England massively outperformed the best-performing schools in the most deprived areas in Wales. It is therefore a sad…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Programme for International Student Assessment results
Can I just declare that one of those children is one of my grandchildren? [Laughter.]
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Topical Questions
Just to set the record straight, the Deputy Minister refers to a vote on 15 July 2020 on a Welsh Government debate introducing 20 mph speed limits in Wales, and we had a free vote and we split. I abstained, for the record. But on the binding vote on 12 July…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I should declare I have direct personal experience of the vital role that speech and language therapists play in enabling a child to grow into a successful adult. The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists has been calling for an increase in the…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
5. How is the Welsh Government helping to retain and recruit speech and language therapists in Wales? OQ60465
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, of course, I endorse Ken Skates's concerns about that particular issue. More broadly, people, young and old, increasingly self-select their news from online sources that reinforce rather than challenge their own perceptions. In consequence, I regularly…
