19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
But you also said that older children and young people, arguably, are the group that are most overlooked. How do you put those two together?
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
You've said that you welcome the Welsh Government decision to allocate £30 million to early years and childcare.
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
I just come back to what I said earlier about the end of exploitative contracts and the end of people being paid less than the living wage. And, all of a sudden, that puts more money into the communities and, more importantly, it means people who aren't…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
The draft budget says, and I think it's quite well known, that skills and qualifications increase earning capacity. As a quick rule of thumb, the more qualified people are, the more they are paid, and the better terms and conditions they work under, and the…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
I will just say that in my constituency there are a number of people who have fixed contracts with guaranteed hours of seven hours a week. They quite often work 30, 35, 40 hours a week, and they can just get by at that level. When, however, they're ill and…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
Unison Wales, of which I am a member, has raised concerns about in-work poverty, and I often talk about in-work poverty, probably boring a large number of Members in the Chamber about it. Exploitative contracts and not paying the real living wage are two of…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
Diolch, Cadeirydd. My first question is: £8 million has been allocated to the discretionary assistance fund, is it enough?
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 6
It's a question in two parts, Victoria. Doesn't universality mean that the people who need it will never miss out? And secondly, doesn't it mean that you could actually get children eating good-quality food from an early age and thus reduce health problems in…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 5
Certainly, move on.
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 5
Thank you.
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 5
But you can also have upskilling, can't you? You've got people who are skilled—electricians, for example, being upskilled for dealing with wind turbines and dealing with solar panels. Unfortunately, the private sector caught a cold on solar panels when the…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 5
I was going to say that one of the problems we have, certainly in rivers, is we get this huge amount of pollution coming off, some from farmland, some from raw sewage being pumped into there, and you get rivers like the Wye and the Tawe that have got serious…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 5
Actually, the increasing energy prices are probably getting home owners now to give serious thought to it; nothing to do with Government, it's just to do with cost. My next question, though, is on capital funding: the £41 million from the infrastructure fund…
19 January 2022 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 5
Diolch, Cadeirydd. My first question is: there's the budget of £180 million to decarbonise homes next year and it has £580 million over three years; if we spent all that only on social housing, i.e. council and housing association housing, how long would it…
18 January 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Stronger Regional Economies
I very much welcome the statement. The four regions of Wales, as well as being similar to the ancient kingdoms, have the opportunity to develop regional policy in Wales. I support the framework's priorities and the city and growth deals, the three-way…
18 January 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I would like to ask for two Government statements. The first one is for the finance Minister to give an update on the use of financial transactions capital, with the update to include how much has been received, where it has been spent, how much has been paid…
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
Thank you very much.
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
I would like that. Sorry, Chair, one question I've got to ask you, as a former researcher: why do you use quintiles rather than deciles?
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
Sorry, I didn't express myself very well. I was talking about the fact that—. I know what you're looking at there. You said some areas are doing better, and the 1.8 is the mean, yes? I was just wondering what the range was. I suppose you've got a standard…
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
Thank you. That was very helpful. And it might be in some of the papers I've read—I've read so many papers for today—but you talk about 'more likely to wait longer in deprived areas' of 1.8 times. Have you got a range for that, as in, it's an average of 1.8…
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
Thank you. Sorry, Danielle wants to speak.
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
I represent Swansea East, which in English terms could quite happily be east Newcastle or central Stoke or Coventry South East or any of those areas. What has to be done to ensure that those from the most deprived communities get equal treatment, i.e. they…
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
I'm glad that you said that because I agree entirely with that. It was just over 50 years ago when the late Julian Tudor-Hart produced his seminal paper for The Lancet on the inverse care law. We've spent 51 years not making a huge amount of progress in that…
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund
Thank you, Russell. You talked there about the longer waiting lists in England of people in the more deprived communities. Do you see any reason why that would not be replicated in Wales?
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you, Chair. I was talking about COVID variants. We've had thousands of them, which is inevitable with a virus. We've had 12 of them that have been serious enough to be named. Does anybody know where we are with variants that are in existence in other…
