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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you for that response. The Minister will know, I'm sure, that the UK Government has moved modern slavery recently from the Minister for safeguarding to an issue at the bottom of the list of the Minister for illegal immigration and asylum. A constituent…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
8. Will the Minister provide an update on recent discussions with the UK Government about modern slavery? OQ58666
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Energy Policy
—relating to solar. The Minister might not be aware of a scheme called Solar Together on Merseyside. It's a group buying—a sort of bulk buying scheme, encouraging communities to buy solar panels together, in order to bring prices down to encourage investment…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Energy Policy
As the Member for Ynys Môn, I could pursue many elements of that very broad-ranging statement. I retain my particular interest in hydrogen, after having led that debate on hydrogen here some two and a half years ago. I understand the interest in HyNet in the…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Energy Policy
I think they have, haven't they?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Stroke
Thank you very much, Llywydd, and I thank the Conservatives for bringing this subject before us today. I'm not sure about the motion in its entirety. We'll come to that in due course, but in terms of the central point, what we have in clauses 1 and 2 in the…
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Thank you, Chair.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Okay. Just one last question from me, and this is the health committee side of the table in this joint meeting: we all want to see the integration of systems, because we all think that would be better for the patient at the end of the day. Perhaps a question…
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Thanks for that, and thanks for giving me a short cut to the acronym as well, in 'WCCIS', which I shall use from now on in. What are those areas of risk on WCCIS that you have decided to focus on? And what have you gleaned from your challenge to—?
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
I find it a little bit surprising that there's not more reference to the system in the written evidence that you've given to us as a committee. It's barely mentioned—a couple of links. And given, from what you're saying, that there are some serious hiccups…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
But only one—is it Aneurin Bevan?—that's actually using it.
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
And I don't think anybody is doubting what you're trying to achieve. What I'm trying to pin down is how effective you are in delivering what was set out years ago, now, as a proposal. Is it just the one health board that's used it?
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Are you still thinking of it as a national programme where everybody should be coming in one at a time? I'm hearing, perhaps, that at least one local authority might be thinking of pulling out of it because they're not happy with the way it's going. Could you…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
It was reported four years ago that good progress was being made. Are we that much further forward?
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Around £30 million has been put into it, and another £12 million has been allocated or earmarked for it. Do the steps that have been taken on it so far represent value for money, do you think?
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Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Thank you very much. If I can continue on the points about the WCCIS, is it fair to say that this is one of the biggest projects that you have?
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Closure of the Menai Bridge
That's not how you do it. But was the maintenance done, the painting and so on, robust enough? Certainly, I've seen rust. More than usual? I don't know; I'm not an engineer. But was the Welsh Government sufficiently monitoring how UK Highways was carrying out…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Closure of the Menai Bridge
'I had just / Completed my design / To keep the Menai bridge from rust / By boiling it in wine.'
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Closure of the Menai Bridge
Thank you for the statement. I have to tell the Minister that this is far more than an inconvenience, and I also have to say that the situation is far more serious than the way the Conservative spokesperson dealt with it. I think there are three fundamental…
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: National Immunisation Framework for Wales
Thank you for the statement. I'm eager to confirm the strong support of these benches to vaccination programmes in general and their contribution to the nation's health. In a way, it's strange, whilst welcoming the new framework, that we didn't have a…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Cardiff University and Public Health Wales
And it would be a reasonable recommendation for us to make for Government to explore the establishment of more undergraduate dental training in the north of Wales.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Cardiff University and Public Health Wales
Just on the expansion of medical training, giving more people the opportunity—dental, I should say—to train to become dentists, you can study to become a doctor in Bangor now, and there will be a medical school pretty soon. There has been the development, or…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Cardiff University and Public Health Wales
Thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Cardiff University and Public Health Wales
This is difficult for us as a committee, because these are population-wide issues that affect everything from dental care to cancer and all that. It's difficult for us to make recommendations other than the very, very obvious ones. So, if we had to try to…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Cardiff University and Public Health Wales
So, where are we falling short? Because the long lists of people waiting for treatment suggest that the preventative, you know, isn't working. Messages aren't getting through, or is it that cohort of the population affected by poverty in particular that is…
