, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
I very much welcome the statement. I and my constituents are also disappointed the UK Government chose to pursue its building safety pledges on an England-only basis. Didn't we used to have a lot of LCMs from them? I have two areas of my constituency that…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I would like to request a Welsh Government statement on pollution. In Swansea East, the River Tawe suffers from sewage being regularly released from the Trebanos pumping station. Further into the constituency, we have plastic being burned off wire and the…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Finally from me, and this is slightly off the levelling-up fund, but the best action to bring levelling up in Britain based in the past was the movement of big Government bodies, such as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, from the south-east of England…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thank you for that. Many years ago, I chaired Swansea’s Objective 1 committee, and you’re right, there is a tendency to take the easy one off the shelf; there’s also the tendency to give everybody a bit, so that everybody benefits by a little rather than…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Could the four Welsh regions be working closer together? Within the regions who've been working close together—the Cardiff city region, the Swansea bay region, the north Wales region, and the mid Wales region—have they been working as regions themselves to…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thank you for that. We'll know if levelling up works or not, when we see the GVA from different parts of Wales and compare it to the rest of the United Kingdom. So, we'll know if it works. But do you think what is being attempted with these bids aligns with…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Diolch, Gadeirydd. In your written evidence, you state that while the levelling-up fund is not a replacement of European Union funding, it's operating in similar areas. We also know that two areas that worked really well with European funding were Horizon and…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Diolch, Gadeirydd. The Welsh Government has not had any role in the development of the community renewal and levelling-up funds. If you had been involved, what would you have done differently?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Okay, fine.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
With national non-domestic rates having come in, there's no benefit to any local authority to have new shops, et cetera, or shopping centres, because the money all goes into the centre. So, without any financial benefit, should we be having a regional plan…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
I'm okay until half past.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
What I would say is, a lot of the things we're talking about there are where they're not in competition with online retailers. I think that those who are in competition with online retailers have been losing out. You can't get your hair cut online, the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you for that. If we could talk about Woodfield Street, because you've mentioned it quite regularly this morning, and I live a mile away from it. My office is about 50 yd from it, and I visit it at least two or three times a week, and quite often daily…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
COVID turbocharged the direction of travel we were already going along: more people working from home, more people buying things online; that's had a huge effect on town and city centres. What we've ended up with is surplus office accommodation, we've ended…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
I can't get silent to work. I was, at the beginning of this meeting, trying to get silent to work, and, as you probably noticed, it didn't.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Can I thank the Minister for that response? Too often, the only discussion of social care is about its effect on hospital discharge. It's far more important than that; social care is important not just for hospital discharge, but the quality of life for the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
2. Will the Minister provide an update on the shortage of care support workers in Wales? OQ58157
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Cost-of-living Update
I thank the Minister for bringing this statement today. It is very expensive to be poor. You pay more for energy via tokens, you are more likely to live in a very poorly insulated house, you go to bed early to avoid heating costs, and in winter you wake up to…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
First of all, I'm requesting a Welsh Government statement on this year's A-level, AS-level and GCSE examinations, and in particular, GCSE Welsh second language; French GCSE, which included a question on a topic that schools had been told had been removed…
, Finance Committee
Group 4: Expiry of the power under section 1 (Amendments 11, 6)
I have some sympathy with what Llyr has said and some sympathy with what the Minister has put forward. Can I just put forward a suggestion that isn't here, that it's looked at within 12 months of it first being used? The possibility is, whether we're dealing…
, Finance Committee
Group 3: Regulations that have retrospective effect (Amendments 1, 14, 17)
I think the key is that you can't go back before the statement, and I welcome the Minister bringing that in, because I think that was a matter of concern for everyone—that you'd have legislation and, 'Oh by the way, 20 years ago, that house you bought, you…
, Finance Committee
Group 1: Scope of the power in section 1 (Amendments 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 21, 13)
No-one thought that being paid in Krugerrands was ever going to be done. If the Westminster Government had produced a list of tax avoidance loopholes, being paid in Krugerrands would not have been on it. And this is, really, the creativity of these people who…
, Finance Committee
Group 1: Scope of the power in section 1 (Amendments 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 21, 13)
Will you take an intervention?
