, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Just a question on the self-employment issue, because, of course, once you are self-employed, you only have limited access, then, to benefits if you become unemployed subsequently. And, of course, a lot of self-employed people are in and out of work…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Thank you very much. That's very helpful.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
And, of course, once you are in work, there's the issue of your career and progression, being retained as well, during the ups and downs of businesses and so on. Is that an issue, as well, that you’ve come across?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Thanks for that. Some supported employment provision is limited to 16 to 25. Can you just say a little bit about your experience of restrictions in the availability of support, how that works, what your views are, particularly in terms of support later in…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Okay. Just moving on a little bit, then, Learning Disability Wales, with whom you’ll have had engagement, I think, has called for a national job coaching strategy, which would see disabled people being able to access supported employment support. Is that…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Okay. Thank you. That's—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
So, when employers' jobs are being advertised, and some of them, of course, always state, 'We're equal opportunities, we provide et cetera, et cetera', of course, what it doesn't provide is what that means in practice, in terms of accessibility and in terms…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Is that something that applies across the board, in different parts of the country, or is this something that's a particularly acute problem in Wales?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Following on from that, you've described some of the provision in Wales as being not fit for purpose. I wonder if you could just say a little bit more about that. Precisely what is it that's not fit for purpose, what is it that needs to change?
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
Thank you for those comments. Following on from the points that have been made, of course, the next four vehicles, going this half term, will take the total up to 30 that have been delivered on behalf of the cross-party group. There's a famous photograph…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Shwmae.
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, 14 years of Tory austerity have left parts of our justice system at a precipice and close to collapse. One of the reasons we have pressed for youth justice devolution and probation is because it is so well fitted within devolved functions and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Thank you very much.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you very much.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
What would you like to see happening with data in the future? Do you think there is a more specific role for Welsh Government, or perhaps even in conjunction with the universities, or whatever, in this area?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Yes. I'll be very quick. You did start talking about the issue of data, particularly within the context of monitoring, and I suppose it leads also to enforcement in some ways, but predominantly monitoring. If you don’t understand what’s happening, if you…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Yes, no, that's fine. I can't pursue that any further.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Do you have a specific approach in terms of what is needed, though, with data? Do you have, I suppose, a strategic policy in respect of the data that you actually want and require? Because you’ve told me quite a bit about, ‘Well, there’s data from the ONS’…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Thank you. Just a few questions, to perhaps explore a little bit more about what I started earlier. The quality of the data that we have—perhaps you could just explain again what are your views on the quality of data we have, what are the main sources of that…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Just a couple of things, only because they fit with the evidence that you're giving at the moment on some things I wanted to ask later on. Just on the incorporation issue, well, of course, the Welsh Government is bound by the UN convention in any event. It is…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Very quickly. Was any consideration given, when the final ballot takes place, in terms of whether someone should be allowed to continue or not, to the issue of spending limits, what the person can spend within that process?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
The second thing: did you consider the possibility of bypassing the issue of having actually a petition? I know they have the petition within the UK Parliament, but again that's a different electoral system. That is, if there is a recommendation from your…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Thanks for that, that's really helpful. I suppose just confirmation on one point, and that is that, in having the ultimate ballot being the determinant as to whether someone is removed or not, I suppose that is based on the principle that, ultimately, it's…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Thank you.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Yes.
