19 January 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost of living
We must listen to and act with urgency upon the evidence and suggestions being proposed for ways that we in Wales can do more to address this crisis. An emergency summit, as I said, would be a first step that could help inform an emergency cost-of-living…
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost of living
Thank you very much, Deputy Llywydd. Our motion this afternoon calls on the Welsh Government to publish an emergency action plan to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that is hitting families in Wales. It's a crisis affecting households across the UK, but Wales…
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you, Minister. I welcome the steps that you have outlined in your respone. The pandemic has clearly revealed the socioeconomic inequalities that exist within our society, and indeed have exacerbated those inequalities. These inequalities are also health…
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
5. What new steps is the Welsh Government taking to address COVID-19 transmission levels? OQ57467
18 January 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 1 and Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 2
I could go on to detail our objection to many other clauses contained within this lengthy Bill, which will have a detrimental and disproportionate impact on minorities, women, children, our civil rights, and which will certainly worsen the inequalities in our…
18 January 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 1 and Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 2
I want to turn now to the way Part 4 of the Bill deliberately targets Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people. There is a provision in the Bill that turns trespass from a civil into a criminal offence, allowing the police to arrest Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people…
18 January 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 1 and Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 2
In terms of the first motion, Plaid Cymru once again wants to put on record our stance that it's the Welsh Parliament that should legislate in devolved policy areas, particularly in the face of the unprecedented desire of the Westminster Government to…
18 January 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 1 and Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 2
The dangerous extremism of the present Tory Westminster Government is evident when it prompts the House of Lords to act with the determination it showed last night, sitting into the early hours defeating clause after clause of what were dubbed oppressive and…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
Thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
Thank you. One specific question to finish: can you tell us more about the allocation of up to £810,000 for the out-of-court parenting support diversion scheme as part of the implementation of the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment)…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
Sorry. Another question now regarding supporting families and children to recover from the pandemic. In October, it was announced that £36.6 million was available for this, and you referred to the £20 million for children and young people to develop their…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
Diolch. [Interruption.]
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
Thank you. Thank you very much. There is an additional allocation of £40 million of revenue up to 2024-25 for Flying Start and Families First. What is the individual allocation for these two programmes for 2022-23? I know that you also touched on this in one…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. A question first of all regarding childcare. The co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru makes a number of pledges regarding expanding childcare—expanding the offer to those who don't receive it at the moment. So, I'd like to know how much…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. Yes, I just had a point following on from what Eluned Morgan was talking about, but also Julie Morgan has talked a little bit about it there in terms of—I appreciate the point that it's difficult as a result of the way that this funding is…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Okay, thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you, and a further question on the relationship of the commission with the coleg Cymraeg. Stakeholders—not just the college itself, but other stakeholders—were concerned about confusion and duplication of roles and responsibilities regarding…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you. Two questions now on the Welsh language. The Welsh Language Commissioner and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol have concerns about the wording and ambition of the strategic duty related to Welsh-medium provision. Will you introduce an amendment to…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you, Chair. Can you explain what the Bill will mean for learners who have additional learning needs? Are you content that the Bill will not disadvantage those with complex additional learning needs? Several stakeholders have raised concerns with us in…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you.
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you, Chair. Just a brief question on research, and I appreciate that you said in your opening statement that you were going to look at the issue of research and its place within the duties in the Bill. There's a lot of talk about institutional autonomy…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you, Chair.
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you. Although provision means that the commission can't require a governing body to do anything incompatible with charity law, there's seemingly no such limitation on Welsh Ministers. What's the rationale for this, and will you amend the Bill to include…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
Thank you. Universities Wales have raised with us that the power to issue general directions to the commission will no longer have to be done by Order—they will just need to be published. Now, this could reduce Senedd scrutiny of the commission. Will you…
13 January 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 11
And perhaps even use co-option to deliver that. That might be an idea. Great. I want to move on to a few questions on the influence of Welsh Ministers on the commission and providers. We've heard strong views that there's no clear rationale for the powers to…
