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Questions to the First Minister
Can I thank the First Minister for that response? We have an excellent screening programme in Wales. I welcome the reduction in the age for screening for bowel cancer. I believe in the importance of screening, but it is unfortunate that people cannot get time…
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Questions to the First Minister
5. Will the First Minister provide an update on NHS population-based national screening programmes across Wales? OQ58554
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Short Debate: Education maintenance allowance: A lifeline in the current crisis
Can I thank Luke Fletcher for giving me a minute in this debate? EMA is very important. From my time as a further education college lecturer in RCT, if EMA had not existed many students who went on to successful careers in ICT would not have been able to…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The private rental sector
I think you've just made a number of builders very happy, knowing you would welcome large-scale building in Cowbridge and the Vale of Glamorgan. The UK Government's freeze on local housing allowances means that most people and families receiving local housing…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The private rental sector
Please.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The private rental sector
I thank Plaid Cymru for bringing this debate forward today. I think we need to talk about housing much more often than we do. I believe housing is important, and until we deal with housing effectively to create a balance between supply and demand, there will…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Can I thank you for that answer, Minister? I visited all the secondary schools in Swansea East on GCSE results day, and I visited those that had A-level results on A-level results day. They were happy with the results, but, as the Minister knows, there were…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
7. What assessment has the Minister made of the summer 2022 GCSE and A-level results? OQ58512
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
But you have that protection, and other parts of the public sector, like Natural Resources Wales, neither have reserves or the ability to overspend.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
You are, but you come back to us for a supplementary budget, don't you, if you're in danger of overspending.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
And health boards wouldn't.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
Thank you very much.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
Why are your pressures greater than that of the local authority you've just left and the health boards?
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
That was three seconds. [Laughter.]
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
No, but everything beyond that then, you're just trying to mitigate vulnerabilities.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
Can I just finish on this, then, as I've got 20 seconds left? The only way to make yourself cyber secure is to take yourself off the internet.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
No, I've certainly no intention of doing that. From my experience, from the days when I used to do this for a living, I think there were two things that really caused problems. One was guessable passwords—people putting their children's names, their partner's…
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
I assume you're doing everything possible to mitigate the risk, because if you said you weren't, I think we'd be very concerned. Are you able to learn from other public sector bodies in this area? You're a reasonably high-profile body, so if I was looking to…
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
Everybody faces a threat, everybody tries to do everything they can to stop it, and every now and again, somebody gets a cyber attack. And you wake up in the morning, when you hear about a cyber attack, being very pleased it wasn't you.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
I'm now going to talk about a thing that keeps most people who are at the head of public sector bodies awake at night: cyber security.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
Okay. Can I move on to governance arrangements? I'm going to talk about things that happened before you were there—I know Chris was there at the time—so apologies for that, but I'm sure that you've been brought up to speed on this. The Public Accounts…
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
Can I start off the next question by saying that I chair the cross-party group on the Public and Commercial Services Union, but I am not and never have been a member of the PCS? We had a letter of concern from them regarding the threat of the use of fire and…
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
I won't read out what your staff survey said—I'm sure you're quite aware of it—but I want to tell you about the increase in sickness, and I'm sure you're aware of both of those. Are you concerned about staff well-being, and what action are you taking to…
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
Thank you.
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Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
So, what level of staff turnover are you running at at the moment?
