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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
Well, first of all, I wouldn't call 0.5 million people signing a petition 'populist nonsense'. Voters in Ogmore—. I was in Pencoed earlier this week speaking to voters, and they are up in arms, quite frankly, about the Welsh Government's default 20 mph speed…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
The statistics on Transport for Wales's performance are very clear for all to see. Twenty-two per cent of people in Wales believe their train services are bad—the highest level in Britain. Transport for Wales has failed to even halfway reach its target of 95…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Minister, I just wanted to come back to the answers you gave to the leader of the opposition surrounding the Estyn chief inspector's comments in his interim annual report. Andrew R.T. Davies, of course, noted that the report mentioned that there were too many…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
We all know the real issue surrounding the housing supply in Wales—it's mainly the lack of it. So, it's a shame that councils in South Wales West are continuing to fail to meet housing targets consistently. In the January to March quarter of this year, under…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
And is there a logic in future licence fee settlements—I appreciate where you say you are with the review—about having a set proportion of the overall income from the licence fee siphoned off towards S4C, or do you see that as something a bit more fluid?
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Is it the intention that S4C would continue to be funded as a proportion of that licence fee in the future?
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Thank you. I want to ask you about the licence fee. Obviously, the UK Government is reviewing the licence fee, and also note UK Government—. I've seen UK Government Ministers refer to it as a 'BBC licence fee'. So, first of all, can I ask for an update on…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Thank you. In answer to your question from Alun, you spoke about the BBC charter and the importance of more programming coming from outside of London, which is something I share, but then you gave two examples of shows being produced in Cardiff. Whilst…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Homelessness
If Plaid Cymru take this issue so seriously, where are all your colleagues today?
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you, Minister, for the answer. We know the incredible work that hospices do right across Wales in providing comfort, dignity and genuine quality care, and I want to place on record my thanks to those involved in the hospice sector, and to Mark Isherwood…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
6. What action is the Welsh Government taking to support hospices in South Wales West? OQ60124
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
Thank you. I noticed your call in your motion today calls for the electrification of all railway lines in Wales. I wonder whether you've got a costed figure for that, or whether that's just another figure off the back of a fag packet.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
Will you take an intervention?
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Questions to the First Minister
A key measure that many of us will use to assess the strength of an economy is the health of their local high street, and, unfortunately, in Mumbles in my region of South Wales West, an area that has traditionally punched above its weight when it comes to the…
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Questions to the First Minister
4. How does the Welsh Government plan to grow the economy in South Wales West? OQ60074
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Minister, for your answer. Local councils across Wales have been dealing over the past couple of months with the implementation of the Welsh Government's default 20 mph speed limits, and the cost in signs alone now, we have seen, has reached £40…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
5. How does the Welsh Government ensure that local authorities have the flexibility to undertake their statutory duties in a way that reflects local needs? OQ60010
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
But you also said that was the No. 1 issue for Welsh audiences.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
Well, you said you weren't aware that that would happen and you'd have to check. I'm just curious, in the context of your previous comments, where you said that Wales's voice was being represented, how you could not be aware of that. How can both those things…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
Thank you for that. You mentioned, obviously, that Wales's voice was being represented at board level in Ofcom, despite the staffing figures we heard earlier from Llyr. I don't understand how that's compatible with your previous answer, where you said you…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
In 2022.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
Can I ask you, Lord Grade—? When I asked what you thought the biggest challenges facing audiences in Wales were, you mentioned about the importance of programming being commissioned and produced in Wales, for Welsh audiences. In 2022, ITV's UK network spend…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
Okay. In terms of quotas, just moving on slightly, I've got a quote from Phil Henfrey, who is head of ITV news in Wales. He said that that if people want more public service content, 'and I completely understand why people would want more—then how do you…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
The fact that a broadcaster themselves has identified, as you put it, a need or a demand for that content, rather than that being something that Ofcom has assessed as a need and a requirement, particularly in the context in Wales where, as I say, we have a…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with Ofcom (2)
I appreciate that, and obviously you are issuing a licence to cover a long period of time. I think it's a decade, if I'm right in thinking.
