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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Do you mind if I just come in? I just want to—
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Minister, I noticed the UK-wide independent inquiry into child sexual abuse recommended that the Welsh Government introduce mandatory reporting for specific individuals to report child sexual abuse. Why is this not in the Bill?
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Minister. I suppose, though, that there are other pressing priorities in your portfolio as well, so I suppose the question is: as priorities are given to this, is there concern that there are other parts of your portfolio that are perhaps not given…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Lovely. Thank you for being with us this morning. And, of course, you're here this morning in regard to the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill, which has been referred to our committee for Stage 1 scrutiny. Perhaps, Minister, I can start by asking you: why…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
If I can perhaps ask officials to introduce themselves for the public record. I'll start from my left.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Right, thank you, all. I'd like to welcome the Minister, Dawn Bowden, who's with us this morning. Thank you, Minister, for being with us.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Looking forward to you joining and your contribution. Also to put on record our thanks to Sarah Murphy who's gone on to other parts of her work. Wishing her well and thanking her for her contribution on committee this morning as well. [Interruption.] Sorry…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da. Welcome to Health and Social Care Committee this morning. As always, we operate in Welsh and English, and we'll just do an interpretation check in a moment as well. There are some Members that are on the estate here this morning, and two Members are…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
But I don't want people from across Wales to be having to pay a tourism tax to come to visit future eisteddfods in Montgomeryshire. And that's the point that I considered as—. It's landing on me now, this fly, as well. I don't want that to be the case. Can I…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I thank Members for their contributions this afternoon? I think many who've contributed this afternoon spoke to uplift the tourism sector in Wales and outline how the tourism sector contributes to making Wales a better…
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Debate on petition P-06-1407, 'We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law'
I think what the former Minister is forgetting is that parts of Wales are very, very different. There are many parts of my own constituency, a very rural constituency, where 30 mph zones are now 20 mph, and they're in none of those categories that you…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Recently, Cabinet Secretary, I was made aware of the acronym FOUR—fixated, obsessive, unwanted and repeated. I wasn't aware of that previously. I wonder, Cabinet Secretary, given what you said in response to Jane Dodds, what more you can say about any…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I ask for a statement that sets out the call-in process from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning, please? My concern is the length of time it takes for the Welsh Government to consider a call-in request. I've got…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding
I will. I'm intervening on this, because I think in the Minister’s response the Minister suggested that wasn't the case. The Minister is saying to me to write to her on that. I think we must all do that when we get that experience, because the Minister is…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding
One of the concerns that I continue to receive is that bottleneck at 8 a.m. in the morning. Colleagues are agreeing with that.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding
Will you take an intervention, Peter?
, Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I would like to reiterate my thanks particularly to the incredible women who helped us with our work. I'd also like to pay tribute to Judith Rowlands, who sadly passed away on 21 May last year. Judith gave really powerful…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
Now, the evidence we heard during the course of this inquiry was pretty shocking. The women who shared their stories with us told us how they felt that their health concerns were not being taken seriously by health professionals and how they dealt with them…
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Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer. I move the motion tabled in my name. Each year, around 1,200 people are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer in Wales. The incidence rate for gynaecological cancer in Wales is higher than the UK average and so is the…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(vi) to resolve to exclude the public
In that case, I move to item 4, and I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting and for the meeting on 23 May, if Members are content. Thank you. In that case…
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Paper(s) to note
I move to item 3. There are several papers to note: there's a letter from the Chair of the Petitions Committee; correspondence with the Terence Higgins Trust Cymru regarding the committee's inquiry; we've been copied in to some various correspondence from…
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General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Thank you, all.
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General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Okay. Thank you for your answer, Jason, and colleagues as well. We appreciate you coming in to committee this morning, and, of course, thank you as well for your evidence papers that you provided ahead of the session as well; we very much appreciate that…
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General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
And, Jason, just finally, how will the outcome of the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service review and the reconfiguration of air bases in mid and north Wales impact your service, if at all, in your view?
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General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
Thank you, Joyce. We're just over time, but a couple of quick questions to finish, if I can. Do you have confidence, or what level of confidence do you have in your ability to provide a civil contingency response in the event of a major incident—I'm thinking…
