, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I would like to ask for a Government statement on co-operative housing. Co-operative housing is popular in places as diverse as Scandinavia and New York, but has failed to become a standard form of accommodation in Wales. It's not accommodation only for poor…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
I cannot say that because, as you pointed out, or Darren Millar pointed out earlier, I have not been involved in any of this; the whole discussion takes place between the Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru, from which many of us on our benches are left out. If…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
Please.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
As the Minister I'm sure will say in her response, not all road construction is being ended. But again, we look at the issue in isolation. A road review needs to be part of a transport review. A bus plan is especially important because a lack of a bus plan…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Can I thank the Minister for that response? I'm a vociferous supporter of Flying Start. It's not possible to overestimate the importance of a good start in life for a child. There are children starting nursery classes at three with a development age…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
2. Will the Minister provide an update on Welsh Government proposals for Flying Start? OQ59206
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you. And finally from me, can you briefly outline the level of detail you intend to include in the financial implications subordinate legislation that may be produced should the Bill be passed? And will you commit to producing a full regulatory impact…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Can I move on to the regulatory impact assessment? You outline your post-implementation review. I assume that's in line with best practice and you're going to tell us it's in line with best practice. How will you monitor and review the implementation of this…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Without wanting to stray into anything apart from finance, it will obviously cost more if we're substantially different from England and people have to do more work, and we won't be an important part of their income.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
As the Minister will remember, under the old Welsh Office, you had things coming out from the Welsh and Scottish Offices that were identical to England, all they did was search and replace 'England' with 'Wales', and then exactly the same document came…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I was going to say my experience has been that negotiated contracts are better than tendered contracts. You have a tendency—and I don't know about health, but certainly in road construction—to tender low and claim. That's the problem with tenders; people work…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Can I just ask a question on that? Are you expecting any consequentials from the expenditure in England?
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes, please.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
A very quick supplementary. You give us the final number; you don't give the spreadsheet that created that final number. Why can't we see the workings out? The Chair is used to me saying that every time people come and talk to us. But you've just given us a…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Although we've left the European Union rules, haven't we signed up for World Trade Organization rules? Is that correct or not? Any costs that have to be met will have to be set inside and obey World Trade Organization rules, which, for those who remember the…
, Plenary
Debate: The Local Government Settlement 2023-24
Will you publish the calculations of the 55 different areas of the standard spending assessment? It would prove that those who say it's wrong are correct or wrong. Until you publish that, everybody's going to say that they're being badly treated.
, Plenary
Debate: The Local Government Settlement 2023-24
You know how important I believe local government is, and you've heard me talk for the best part of 12 years now about the importance of local government, the importance of supporting local government. I'm not going to say anything different to that today. I…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
I intend to make several comments on the budget, but, first, I want to address the process. We are setting the budget for all devolved services in Wales. We continue to repeat we are a Parliament. Yet we timetable only one hour for the final debate on the…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Will you take an intervention, Peter?
, Plenary
Debate: Welsh Rates of Income Tax 2023-24
I'll start off by saying I'm ideologically supportive of increasing the tax rate on the two higher income bands. Higher paid people should pay more for the provision of public services. It's part of what we pay for living in a civilised society. The problem…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
No.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
Why is it not the responsibility of the registered social landlord?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
Can I cut in here?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
Thank you. We have some other questions, Mark, or Chair, but, if you're happy, I think those are questions that could quite easily be answered in writing.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2
Sorry, going into the technical level, there are losses and there are losses, aren't there? I mean, £100,000-worth of civil servant time is a loss—it's an opportunity loss, but it hasn't actually cost real, new money. Did you differentiate between buying and…
