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Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
The First Minister says he never lost sight of the workforce in Port Talbot and I'm glad to hear that, but let's remind ourselves of his record. The UK Government has put £80 million on the table for that transition board to support workers. Tata themselves…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Our national mission—delivering on Wales’s education priorities
Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary for her statement today? But, I'm afraid to say that was a business-as-usual statement for an education system that is crying out for change. Wales's education priorities are clear: they want to make sure that, when their…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. Last week the Llywydd noted that, on marking 25 years of devolution, this was a people's Senedd and not a politicians' Parliament. In fact, she said it wasn't Sam Kurtz's Parliament, and I do agree with that. [Laughter.] Now, many…
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Questions to the First Minister
5. What impact does the First Minister expect the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill will have on building trust in politics and politicians? OQ61106
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
You said that the Labour Government had been open and inclusive to a fault; I don't think many people will think that about the First Minister with the couple of weeks he's had in office. Now, it raises a series of questions, and you raised one with me—why am…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you very much for that response. Obviously, it does raise a number of questions. I think you mentioned it being 'blown up', but, obviously, the First Minister yesterday denied the messages were to do with pandemic handling, but they seem now to be a…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. It's the issue that won't go away—the First Minister's iMessages. Let's remind ourselves of what he said: 'I'm deleting the messages in this group. They can be captured in an FOI and I think we are all in the right place on the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Okay. I'm conscious of the time, so I'm going to leave it there.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Okay. Thank you. Your paper also mentions that local authorities are reporting more children with complex needs, particularly speech and language needs, when starting primary school, but Mudiad Meithrin says that relatively few children are getting an IDP…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Thank you. My concern, I suppose, would be—. You acknowledged, Cabinet Secretary, earlier in your remarks today that six months, a year, is a long time in a child's life, and you also acknowledged that lots of this isn't going correctly—you said so in your…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
So, hang on, you don't know the data you need yet, not that you don't have access to the data. You're still identifying what data it is you need first.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
You mention your inability to take it forward in the way that you would like without the data being provided to you. When do you anticipate you'll have access to the data you need?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Thank you. In your paper, you mention concerns about the transparency of local authorities' decision making, and that information provided regarding advocacy, case friends and dispute resolution services is weak and families may not be aware of their right to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
That supply, I imagine, doesn't necessarily meet the demand, and I imagine that that supply is particularly geographic. Would that be a fair assessment?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Thank you. Is provision in the Welsh language available in special schools?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
I think the question here, Gareth, is obviously on the money, as you've mentioned, but it's also on the judgment, I think, of the First Minister in this case. The First Minister, earlier today, I read in the Daily Express, said that he was aware that there…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
Would you take an intervention?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Leadership campaign donations and the ministerial code
Yesterday, the First Minister suggested that the public were not concerned by his donations from a convicted polluter. He knows that it's not true, and yet he persists in downplaying the matter. And when one of the BBC's top journalists, Teleri Glyn Jones…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch yn fawr. Cabinet Secretary, earlier this month Morriston Hospital in Swansea issued yet another black alert due to exceptional demand. It's not the first time Morriston Hospital has had to issue such a notice. In fact, there have been nine separate…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
5. What is the Welsh Government's strategy for improving healthcare provision in South Wales West? OQ61026
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language: Tata Steel
Can I thank the Minister for his statement today? It was—I agree with my party spokesperson, Sam Kurtz—a little bit light, I think, on the detail in terms of what the Welsh Government is going to practically do to help steelworkers in Port Talbot, and relied…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Education
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. We need to talk about educational attainment in Wales. The PISA results we saw at the tail end of last year were incredibly disappointing. We, sadly, saw the lowest scores in the United Kingdom in every single subject. Whether it…
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Emergency Question: Incident in Ysgol Dyffryn Aman
Whilst I don't have the honour of representing Ammanford here in the Senedd, it is the town that I grew up in, I know the town very well, and I know the school as well very well, and, when you see these scenes of unspeakable horror and violence appearing in a…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Thank you very much, Cabinet Secretary. A number of public transport operators cited the 20 mph legislation as a key reason why they were withdrawing routes in many cases. Adventure Travel cited the 20 mph policy as the reason for withdrawing some routes in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
6. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the Welsh Government's priorities for public transport? OQ60975
