, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Okay. One last question if I can, just off the back of the questions that James was asking earlier, and something that you said, Chris. You said that some parts of your catchment area that are more affluent would have parents who are more likely to have been…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Anything to add on that, Laura?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Yes. Catherine, you're nodding.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
So, would introducing alongside or as part of this Bill a new licensing or quality statement or whatever be necessary in order to give you that confidence?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
I think what really struck me from what you were saying, Chris, is that it’s really important that schools—if this legislation were to come in—have to be able to specify the language in which they want it to happen. Okay. Another issue is around licensing…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
And, Catherine, can you think of factors around how to grow that capacity and the need to build that capacity?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Yes. And you, Catherine.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you very much for joining us this morning to give your evidence. A few questions from me—one about language and then another about licensing. The Bill provides that, subject to availability, residential outdoor education should be provided in Welsh when…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
Diolch yn fawr.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
Thank you very much for that clarification. One more question from me and it's about vaping. We know there's a growing concern about vaping, and I feel that we're paying the price for failing to regulate vaping early enough so that vaping could be promoted as…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
One question stemming from the narrative document on the budget. In paragraph 55, it says that £3 million has been taken out of preventative policies, and that they're targeted at people who smoke or who are obese. Could you tell us where that axe falls in…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
I'm very pleased that one of those three pilots is happening on Anglesey. Some £600,000 has been earmarked for the continuation of those pilot schemes. Where is the evaluation that we can actually see—the most recent version of it—that shows that that's a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1
Thank you very much. My questions also go to the Deputy Minister—questions with regard to the 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy, and vaping also. I'll talk about the 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy first. Of course, when money is tight, it's…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I am a designated Member with regard to the co-operation agreement.
, Plenary
Topical Questions
There should not have been the need for a campaign. The justice wheel, tragically, has turned far too slowly for those who have died, taken their lives, while awaiting exoneration. Both the Post Office and the UK Government, which ignored the issue for years…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I can't pay enough of a tribute to people like Noel Thomas and Lorraine Williams, two of my constituents, for their work insisting on justice. I've gotten to know Noel in recent years. He's a very special man, and thinking about him in a prison, celebrating…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
The Horizon scandal is a tale of deep, deep injustice, and it's a tale of corporate greed, isn't it, where the shameful, unscrupulous behaviour of the powerful go unpunished, and the consequences of their failings are shifted on to ordinary, hard-working…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Finding staff is one of the greatest challenges facing small businesses. Anglesey's Môn CF has worked hard to build a relationship with businesses to identify their staffing needs and try and find opportunities for unemployed people. Unfortunately, they're…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
And it's a point. There is an extent to which an incoming Government hasn't got the books at its disposal. The same is true here; we don't have the books that Welsh Government has. But when it comes to an unfairness as fundamental as HS2, a Labour Government…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
Yes, of course.
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
I, of course, have a great degree of sympathy with Ministers with this budget as they grapple with a budget squeezed as a consequence of incompetent Tory Chancellors—I lose count how many—and a UK Conservative Government that puts short-term populism ahead of…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
I welcome this debate on the draft budget. In doing that, I have to make the point that I do regret that there wasn't an opportunity for initial scrutiny here before Christmas. A pattern has emerged over recent years of allowing timely scrutiny on Government…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Well, I wish the First Minister wouldn't be so obsessive about how we changed our leadership in Plaid Cymru. [Laughter.] One last question, if I may, again linked to some of what we've heard in the Labour leadership campaign, that I believe I'm able to talk…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The First Minister says again—he's said it before—that I'm somehow obsessed by the Labour leadership. It's not obsession. Before Christmas, he was saying that it was none of my business who the next leader of the Labour Party is. As far as I know, that new…
