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Cost of Living - Workforce
Great. Thank you. Shavanah.
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Thank you. Deborah.
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Just my final point—and this could be a very quick answer or a very long answer, depending on your examples. Is there anything being done elsewhere within the devolved nations that Welsh Government could replicate or adopt here that may cause assistance or…
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Okay. That's helpful. Shavanah.
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Cost of Living - Workforce
I can see, Shavanah, that you've got your thumbs up. So, I'll come over to Deborah first. Deborah, anything specific to add?
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Thank you. We were given a suggestion by Action in Caerau and Ely that the scale of the cost-of-living crisis requires eligibility criteria for support to be extended, particularly for families who earn just above the limit to qualify for benefits. Steffan…
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Cost of Living - Workforce
That's helpful. Shavanah.
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Deborah, can I bring you in?
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Cost of Living - Workforce
That's it. Thank you.
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Can I just come back quickly? You were talking there about discretionary housing payments and the sort of system that's there already. Is the fact that a grants have been given during the pandemic—? Are there any mechanisms through that to help people…
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Steffan, could we start with you?
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Cost of Living - Workforce
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Panel, thank you—it's been very fascinating listening this morning. Based on your judgment of how the cost-of-living pressures will affect Wales over the coming months, what additional support should the Welsh and UK Governments be…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I'm a director of the charity Wales YFC, which has been in receipt of Welsh Government funding.
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Short Debate: Biodiversity: The big picture. Seeding the future—the importance of managing grass verges and grasslands
Thank you to the Member for North Wales for bringing this forward. As someone who brought forward the statement of opinion on hedges and edges that the Member kindly co-signed as well, I think this is really important. The agricultural community absolutely…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales
Thank you, and I do wish to thank you, Minister, for attending the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee's latest session on investigating the nitrate vulnerable zones that Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru have endorsed. However, I was left with real…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales
Thank you, Minister. I understand that we're a very integrated UK market here, but there are many levers that this Welsh Government can have in convening a food summit. The First Minister then, I take it, misspoke when he said there had been a food summit—it…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales
Diolch, Llywydd. I refer Members to my register of interests. Minister, some two months ago, on Wednesday 23 March, Andrew R.T. Davies and I called on the Welsh Government to convene a food summit with all stakeholders to discuss global supply chain food…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you for that detailed answer, Minister. I do briefly want to touch on two issues with the Welsh Government's local authority funding formula. The first is the disparity between the funding per head of an 84-year-old in comparison to that of an…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
4. How does the Welsh Government ensure fair funding for local authorities across Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire? OQ58107
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Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Welsh in education workforce
Thank you to the Minister for having previous sight of the statement. As the Minister's recognised this afternoon, the Cymraeg 2050 strategy is ambitious and aspirational, but to safeguard the future of our language, we must ensure that our policies are…
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Short Debate: Improving access to healthcare
I'm grateful to the Member from the Vale of Clwyd for bringing forward this short debate, and the Minister won't be surprised that I'm bringing forth the Argyle Medical Group and Argyle Street surgery as my example this evening. This is one of Wales's largest…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health
I refer Members to my register of interests. I don't think any apologies should be made for this debate this afternoon being not a comfortable one, and every contribution we hear is incredibly pertinent to this debate. I'd like to pay tribute to Sarah Murphy…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Minister, the latest available figures for initial teacher education, ITE, qualifiers in Wales show that the numbers of students completing their course in Welsh universities or the Open University fell from 1,740 students in 2010-11 to 1,030 in 2019-20, a…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Reducing vulnerability to flood risk and the independent review of the 2020-21 flooding
I'm grateful to you, Minister, for your statement. I recently met with a chartered surveyor representing an historic estate in south Pembrokeshire who are currently looking at plans to increase the viability of a pub, which just so happens to be situated next…
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: Offshore Marine Energy
Minister, you mentioned wanting to be an early mover on this, which is something that I welcome, and given my constituency I'd like to focus on floating offshore wind. So, how are we best able to utilise the small and medium-sized enterprises that are already…
