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Topical Questions
Cabinet Secretary, like so many others around this Chamber, I was left devastated by the truly awful scenes that we saw unfold in Abergavenny on Sunday night. Understandably, the community has been left in complete shock, with homes lost, businesses destroyed…
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Papers to note
Feel free to start from the beginning, Chair; we did lose you—[Inaudible.]—the ground. It's fine.
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Papers to note
Shall we wait for him for a couple of minutes?
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Papers to note
I believe we've lost the Chair, Gareth.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Chair, I'm happy to agree the reporting points, but just one point is that I would like to have a bit more clarification, whether that be from the Welsh Government, about point No. 6 of our papers in relation to 'serve an improvement notice may appeal'…
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you so much, Chair.
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
And alongside numbers, we love formulas, so please feel free to share the formula with the committee—we'd be very grateful. My final question is this: what assessment has the Welsh Government made in relation to ongoing funding needs to support Ukrainians in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Yes, please.
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay, great. Just a small sidebar to the question that you’ve just answered, which was great. And I’m sorry, I’m jumping on Mike Hedges’s questions from earlier. On the £2.5 million that you received, for example, for homelessness, you said that has been…
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you so much for your answer. How much UK Government funding is the Welsh Government expecting to receive for the year 2024-25 relating to the Ukraine response, including any funding to prevent homelessness amongst Ukrainians?
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
That’s great. As a committee, we love detail, so feel free to share as soon as you get them. Can you please share with the committee, also, what the latest position is on spending against the budget for 2024-25, and how that budget is going to be allocated?
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you so much for your answer. You mentioned that you are in the process. Do you have a date in mind as to when you’ll be able to give us a concrete figure?
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you, Chair. I'm going to come back to the money side of things, if that's okay with you all. Can you share with the committee the outturn position for 2023-24 compared with the revised October 2023 budget of £37.5 million, in what areas any underspends…
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay. Thank you.
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay. Final question from me: so, how have you, as Welsh Government officials, engaged, and have previously engaged with, and influenced UK Government colleagues on discussions around changes to the UK Government funding through tariffs and other sources?
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay. So, jumping on what my colleague Mike Hedges said, based on current world affairs that we've seen in the last 24 hours, if we do see a massive influx of more Ukrainian refugees coming in to Wales, have you got any projections as to how that's going to…
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Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, ladies. So, I want to talk to you a bit about spending, and I'm glad you went on that. So, Welsh Government initially estimated that this entire matter was going to cost roughly £18 million. You actually ended up…
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Papers to note
I echo what Adam said. Having read the document that's been provided, it was very much a mental ping-pong match whereby it almost felt as though the Ministers are a law unto themselves, and particularly the First Minister has this enormous weight to have to…
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Papers to note
Please, because I don't want a situation where they come in January and they say, 'Well, we don't know the time frame', or, 'We can't disclose the time frame'. At least give them that time to be prepared and understand that time frames aren't exactly…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes, please, Chair. Obviously, we're going to follow up as a committee with regard to Cardiff Airport—happy to do so. The two areas that you've mentioned in your statement just there, obviously, in relation to the key performance indicators for the team of…
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Papers to note
I'm happy to note, Chair. Obviously, I just wish it had come sooner. I wish it would have been earlier than 2025, but, other than that, fine.
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Topical Questions
I'd like to thank my colleague Peredur Owen Griffiths for raising this really important question this afternoon. My thoughts remain, as I'm sure do those of my colleagues as well, with the loved ones of David Tudor Evans and all those involved in this…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you so much, Cabinet Secretary. The Ebbw Vale Institute in Blaenau Gwent is a cherished community asset that currently provides an array of services, two of which are work experience programmes and volunteering opportunities. Both are, indeed, a vital…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
4. What is the Welsh Government doing to improve educational outcomes for young people in South Wales East? OQ61780
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you so much, Cabinet Secretary. As I mentioned just previously, physically, times are tough for everybody. Therefore, I'm sure that you would have been appalled, as I was, when hearing the recent revelation that Caerphilly County Borough Council has…
