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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
It's the letter you wrote to us, Minister, not a private company. Mabon.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thanks. One final point, before I bring Mabon in. I'm sorry, I just want to get down to the roots of this here, because the fundamental point you're making, Minister, is that this money can or should be reinvested in supporting the care of children. You wrote…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Minister, we also heard from WLGA that the measures of profits used are not the same as amounts extracted from the care of children, and they suggested that there's a misunderstanding of the differences in terminology between profit and extraction of profits…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay. Thank you. Mark.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Before I bring Mark and Mabon in, I guess the point is that CIPFA said that other options could be explored, such as introducing a cap on profits, rather than having to go through primary legislation. So, if that is the ambition, in terms of trying to control…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
If I may, Minister, the WLGA told us that savings are likely to be cost avoidance rather than cashable savings, so, therefore, not going back into the care of those children. Especially, local authorities have got a £40 million overspend in children’s…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Sorry, just a point to the Minister on this, on this line being used around extracting profit from the care of children, we've heard no evidence so far that the costs of what's going to be introduced will have any savings for the public purse whatsoever…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay. Thanks, Minister. I just want to move on slightly, but linked to this general theme, because there are calls for some of the smaller or medium enterprises to be, perhaps, considered differently in the Bill's approach, compared to a big, corporate…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay. Thank you for that. So, it's clearly still being worked through in terms of understanding what that may look like. I guess, for these organisations, having a clear line by when that may take place would be, at the very least, helpful to them, because…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Minister.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thanks, Minister. I appreciate the ambition and the desire, but, of course, there are legal thresholds to pass and issues to work through. I'm not sure if there's a legal perspective from your officials on this, but just to understand the timescale it would…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you for that. From our understanding, there is no mechanism to allow a company limited by shares to change into a company limited by guarantee or any type of charitable entity. They'd have to set up a whole new charity and completely move all their…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay, thank you for that. And in terms of the timescale within which existing for-profit entities can convert from their current status as for-profit to a not-for-profit entity, what's the shortest sort of timescale do you think that will happen over? Are we…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay, thank you for those responses, then. There has been concern raised in our evidence sessions so far about the possibility of loopholes being used, such as arm's-length arrangements involving perhaps a profit-making company elsewhere in the UK. So, can…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thanks, Minister. And can you help us understand why you think that these things can't be achieved without legislation? Why can't the Welsh Government just direct local authorities, for example, to only engage with maybe third sector or local-authority-run…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Item 5 is our continued work on the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill, and we have an evidence session with the Minister for Social Care. So, I'd like to welcome Dawn Bowden, as the Minister for Social Care and as the lead Member for this Bill here today…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Okay, diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you, Mabon. No other declarations? Okay, thank you.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to the Health and Social Care Committee this morning. It's very good of everybody to join us for this meeting, which is the last one before the summer recess, before the Senedd breaks up. We're on to item 4 on our agenda because the…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to the Health and Social Care Committee.
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the government’s priorities and legislative programme
I move amendment 2 in the name of my colleague Darren Millar and thank Rebecca Evans for standing in place of the First Minister today, to speak to the report in front of us. It's quite a day to be discussing the Welsh Government's priorities. Unfortunately…
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the government’s priorities and legislative programme
I thought it was, Deputy Presiding Officer. I didn't want to doubt you for a moment there, but thank you.
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the government’s priorities and legislative programme
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I move the amendments tabled in the name of my colleague Darren Millar in front of us today, and thank Rebecca Evans—
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. You'll know the potential benefits of AI are significant in fields like healthcare. Take, for example, the AI system developed by Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London, which has the potential to identify…
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Questions to the First Minister
7. What is the Welsh Government doing to increase the use of artificial intelligence in Welsh health services? OQ61458
