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Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus emergency scheme
Will you take an intervention?
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Prepayment meters and energy advice services
According to the latest available estimates from energy regulator, Ofgem, there were around 4.1 million electricity and 3.3 million gas customers on a prepayment meter, or PPM, in Great Britain in 2020, with proportionally more households in Wales using PPMs…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I've been proud to host and speak at both the 2022 and 2023 Equal Power Equal Voice Senedd events, celebrating the Equal Power Equal Voice project, a mentoring programme aiming to increase diversity of representation in public and political life in Wales…
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Debate: The President of the Welsh Tribunals Annual Report 2021-22
Diolch yn fawr. Questioning the Counsel General here in September 2021, I asked him for his initial response to proposals in the Law Commission's consultation paper on devolved tribunals in Wales to, in particular, reform the Welsh Tribunals unit, the part of…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. There is widespread support for plans for a national forest for Wales, a vast network of woods and forests across the nation open for everyone to explore and enjoy. However, woodland continues to be seen as a public good even when it provides an…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
8. What is the Welsh Government's forestry and woodland restocking policy? OQ59243
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Questions to the First Minister
The national road traffic projections 2022 study, published by the UK Department for Transport in January, shows that road traffic in Wales and England could grow by as much as 54 per cent between 2025 and 2060, with a 22 per cent rise under the core…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
Why have you not acknowledged that the 'current Tory Government' has banned the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030, and that with effect from 2035 all new cars and vans will be fully zero emission at the tailpipe, which means that we need a…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. On World Osteoporosis Day last October I met with the Royal Osteoporosis Society in the Senedd. I heard that people in Wales suffer 27,000 osteoporotic fractures every year; that there are an estimated 100,000 undiagnosed spinal fractures in Wales…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
4. What support is available for people in Wales with osteoporosis? OQ59195
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
The latest figures show that Wales, under a Labour Welsh Government in this case, has the lowest employment rate amongst the UK nations, that Wales was the only UK nation to see a fall in employment, and that Wales saw the largest increase in the inactivity…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Thank you. As Cymorth Cymru now state, homelessness and housing support providers and local authority commissioners have been left devastated by the lack of an increase in the housing support grant, ninety-three per cent of service providers are extremely or…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Actually, they did not, but that disastrous and temporary intervention, which we opposed—and I didn’t vote for her—was dealt with. It’s history. The successor Government has moved on. [Interruption.] This is about the Welsh Government budget.
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Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
I’ll have one intervention if time permits, yes.
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Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
This budget is littered with false economies that will push many more people into crisis, adding multi millions to the cost of crisis service providers in the health and social care public sectors. Funding for social justice has been cut by £96 million in…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I call for a single statement from the health Minister on raising awareness of diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA, a complication of type 1 diabetes. Yesterday, I met with Dee Pinnington, to discuss her raising-awareness campaign, following the death of her son…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:
Well, at this point, then, I propose that, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), the committee resolves to meet in private for items 4 and 5, for the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content? I trust that Mabon—[Interruption.] Yes. In which…
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Papers to note
Thank you. That sounds a pertinent point. No doubt the clerking team have made a note accordingly.
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Papers to note
Natasha, do you have a comment?
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Papers to note
No. Mike Hedges, anything?
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Papers to note
Members, we have papers to note. Very briefly, a letter from the Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd—you can relax; it's not you—on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee report on the scrutiny of accounts for 2021-22. Members will note…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
Okay. Thank you. Well, that brings the questions for the day's session to an end. We're only seven minutes over. I thank Sally-Ann Efstathiou, Dr Andrew Goodall, Gawain Evans and Tim Moss for being with us today and answering our questions. As always, a…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
You may say that this was in the document that was published earlier this week, but what was the balance on the Wales reserve at 1 April 2022 and was this within the £350 million threshold set out in the fiscal framework?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
Okay. I've only got a couple of quick questions to conclude. The Welsh Government said it would publish the outturn report for the 2021-22 accounts within three weeks of the accounts being laid. Why have you not done so, and when do you expect to publish?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
I should declare that in my previous life I have worked in corporate finance. Right, if we could move on, then—Natasha Asghar, please, to take up the questions.
