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Papers to note
Nation.Cymru and the Evening Post.
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Papers to note
No, I only wish to comment that we had very good publicity on it within the media.
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Short Debate: A national plan for flood resilience
Thank you, Carolyn, for giving me a minute. We know that water expands as it gets hotter, thus increasing the volume of water. We know that we're seeing flooding and storms occurring both more frequently and more violently than we have previously. The water…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Barnett formula
The Barnett formula's principle is that any increase or reduction in expenditure in England will automatically lead to a proportionate increase or reduction in resources for the devolved Governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It was introduced…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Barnett formula
Thank you for taking the intervention. The other priority area it's being spent on in social services, and social services and health are interchangeable.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): National collections
I will be voting for this motion today. As to the points in the motion, it is true that the national collections of Wales, which are under the care of the National Library of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru, belong to everyone in Wales, not just those of us in the…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): National collections
Thank you very much, Heledd, for bringing forward this debate today.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
How is building more gas-powered power stations, as suggested by the Conservatives at Westminster, going to help us towards reaching the carbon neutral target? We're seeing climate change affecting our weather continually. Does the Minister agree how…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Vaughan Gething.
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Questions to the First Minister
Firstly, I want to highlight the success of the Bunkhouse in Swansea in providing live music. The rent for music venues has gone up by 37.5 per cent on average. A rate cut will only lead to a further large increase in rents. This is where the pressure on…
, Plenary
Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report, 'Town Centre Regeneration'
There is certainly a mobile banking hub in Morriston, but the problem is not the lack of a banking hub; the problem is that people tend not to use money. They use the methods of debit and credit cards and their phones. Use shops in shopping centres, as I've…
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report, 'Town Centre Regeneration'
Yes, certainly.
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report, 'Town Centre Regeneration'
I'm very pleased that the PAPAC committee undertook the study on town centre regeneration and that we have been allowed a debate on this today. Concentrating on Morriston, where I live and where my constituency office is situated, the committee was able to…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Tomorrow, Thursday 14 March, is World Kidney Day. The number of adults in Wales receiving treatment, either via a kidney transplant or dialysis, is over 3,000 and is estimated to increase by 3 per cent per year, based on the latest data published by the UK…
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Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2023-24
This is a strange debate. This supplementary budget regularises allocations to and from reserves, transfers within and between portfolios, and includes adjustments to the Wales budget to reflect the impact of UK Government fiscal events. In the second…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
As one of the very few Members of the Senedd who is an applied scientist and who studied A-level pure mathematics, physics and chemistry, I look forward onto a Government with four legally qualified Members, as two of them, including you, Minister, compete to…
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Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
Thank you.
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Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
Thank you very much. I could carry on with this for hours, but neither the Chair nor you would allow me to do that. The other piece of Treasury control is capital and revenue, and the ability of Welsh Government to move money from revenue to capital and…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you. There's no constraint on private finance initiative. The Government can have hundreds of millions of pounds of PFI, which is probably the most expensive way of borrowing money that exists, but it can't actually borrow cheaply in order to do…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
Thank you for that. I've said on many occasions—you haven't heard it, but everybody else in this room has several times—that the Treasury tends to treat the Welsh Government as another Government department, rather than a devolved institution. You talked…
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Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
The commission called for indexing reserve limits to inflation and the abolition of the reserve draw-down. Why do we need to index reserve limits? Every local authority and community council in Britain can put as much money into reserves as they want. Peter…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
I very much welcome the statement. I'm very pleased to see that, since 2023, local authorities have been able to introduce higher discretionary council tax premiums on second homes and long-term empty properties. I've just discovered it's now being copied in…
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Business Statement and Announcement
They can't afford six bins?
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Business Statement and Announcement
I'm asking for two statements. The first is on Welsh Government progress in promoting the real living wage. Far too many people in Wales work on exploitative contracts not paying the real living wage and not giving them enough hours guaranteed each week. What…
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Questions to the First Minister
As an ex-steelworker, possibly the only one in the Senedd, I am a strong supporter of the continuation of steel making and iron making in Wales. Electric arc furnaces have the following weaknesses: firstly, they're dependent on sufficient quality recyclable…
