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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you. I look forward to seeing the result of that evaluation. We also heard the First Minister rightly condemn the Prime Minister's wish not to increase benefits in line with inflation, the benefits of people who already have almost nothing to live on…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, yesterday, when asked by the leader of Plaid Cymru, Adam Price, about instituting measures such as those introduced this week by the SNP Scottish Government to protect their people from homelessness this winter, such as temporary…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh in Education Strategic Plans (WESPS): Evidence session with Welsh-medium education advocates
I just briefly wanted to ask—. We've touched on the continuum and the categorisation, so could I ask your view on how local authorities reflect that process of moving schools along the language continuum within the WESPs? Do you have specific concerns about…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh in Education Strategic Plans (WESPS): Evidence session with Welsh-medium education advocates
Thank you. I would like to hear your views specifically on how the WESPs contribute or don't contribute adequately to the development of Welsh-medium provision within the English-medium sector. Is it clear in the plans? You, Elin, spoke earlier about how…
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Welsh in Education Strategic Plans (WESPS): Evidence session with Welsh-medium education advocates
Thank you very much. Chair, I should have declared at the beginning an interest in that I am a member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh in Education Strategic Plans (WESPS): Evidence session with teaching unions
May I ask, briefly, to conclude: what else could the Welsh Government do to encourage or incentivise local authorities to improve this aspect of the WESPs? Is there anything that could be done in terms of the capital funding envelope to help facilitate these…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh in Education Strategic Plans (WESPS): Evidence session with teaching unions
Thank you. You've answered this partly, but I'd just like to know the view of the other witnesses in terms of specific concerns about this new categorisation and the guidance. You said perhaps that the guidance would benefit from being statutory in nature…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh in Education Strategic Plans (WESPS): Evidence session with teaching unions
Thank you. Good morning. All of you have touched on this already in almost all of your responses, namely the importance of the development of Welsh-medium provision within the English-medium sector. You've said that there are particular issues with it: you've…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Thank you for your statement, Minister. It's chilling to think that the people of Ukraine have by now been subjected to the terror and obscenity of war for such a long period, and that, of course, has huge consequences for those who have been forced to flee…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cost of living
The measures already announced by Welsh Government referenced in their amendments are, of course, welcome. Some, like free school meals, will be transformational. But there is much more that needs to be done; some of these are just not going to touch the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cost of living
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The purpose of Plaid Cymru's motion today and our first debate of this new term is to foreground the need for further, immediate and emergency action by the Welsh Government on the cost-of-living crisis to support the Welsh people in…
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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report—Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes Programme
This inquiry and report on the Warm Homes programme and fuel poverty is perhaps one of the most important that I've been part of as a member of a committee in the Senedd to date, because every winter, hundreds of thousands of people in Wales have difficulty…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
2. What consideration does the Welsh Government give to the impact of the cost-of-living crisis when funding schools in South Wales West? OQ58402
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Summer exam session 2022—evidence session
Yes. Anybody else? No. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Summer exam session 2022—evidence session
Thank you. One other question, in looking to the future. I was interested to hear what you were saying with regard to this analysis of equalities that you will be publishing in November—in October, I'm sorry. A general question, perhaps: how can you use the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Summer exam session 2022—evidence session
In terms of that, in terms of the specifications for the November series, we have had a question regarding that from the public, raising the point that the full specifications are going to be used rather than the those adaptations from the summer. Despite the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Summer exam session 2022—evidence session
Thank you, Chair. As the mother of a son who's just moved from GCSE to A-level, and also as the mother of a daughter who was doing A-levels in that first cohort that was having centre-assessed grades and is now in higher education, certainly, there are things…
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Statement by the First Minister: Update on the Cost of Living
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Prif Weinidog, you've rightly outlined the crucial importance of getting what support is available into eligible people's pockets. So, could I ask you: what evaluation of the last round of the winter fuel support scheme across local…
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Short Debate: Votes at 16: Giving young people the tools to understand the world in which they live, and how to change it, through political education
According to the Electoral Commission report on the last Senedd elections, although the Democracy Box partnership project, which was supported by the Senedd and the Government, was a positive step, we need to extend the reach and impact of these programmes…
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Short Debate: Votes at 16: Giving young people the tools to understand the world in which they live, and how to change it, through political education
A second issue specific to the implementation of votes at 16 in Wales was that the legislation did not include concrete statutory measures of political education, something that had been discussed in the reform process in Wales and identified as crucial in…
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Short Debate: Votes at 16: Giving young people the tools to understand the world in which they live, and how to change it, through political education
Our young people have been able to vote at 16 now in two elections—the Senedd elections and the local elections this year. That, of course, is a cause of great joy and pride on a national level. My own daughter voted for the first time in the Senedd…
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Short Debate: Votes at 16: Giving young people the tools to understand the world in which they live, and how to change it, through political education
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I'll give a minute of my time to Heledd Fychan. I grew up in Gwent, and I would go shopping in Newport. The famous mural that told the story of the Chartists, which now, unfortunately, has been destroyed, was a wonder to me. I…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Winter fuel support scheme
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. It's midsummer, and when the clouds rise, it is a time to wear light clothes, T-shirts, to open the windows, sit in the garden, hang the clothes on the line, enjoy a barbecue and to know, usually, that the energy bills won’t be as…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A ban on ‘no pet’ clauses in rented accommodation
One of the first pieces of casework that I had after being elected was an appeal for help from a woman who had been relocated and rehomed as a result of escaping from domestic abuse. She was in an extremely vulnerable condition, having had to move from her…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Diolch, Weinidog. It's good to hear that there will be an announcement on the baby bundles. As we brace for a serious worsening of the cost-of-living crisis as the autumn and winter months begin to loom over an already grim horizon, I was wondering whether…
