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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you for your answer, Deputy Minister. I recently met with the '111 press 2' team in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, where I was told about the high numbers of people the service had already helped to access mental health support. It was wonderful to meet the team to…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
8. Will the Minister provide an update on Welsh Government work to improve access to mental health support? OQ59558
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I recently met with the Royal National Institute of Blind People Cymru, who have expressed some concern over what they see as a variation in the support available for children and young people with visual impairments across local authority…
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90-second Statements
It's important that we preserve our local history, and that includes women's history, which can so often be overlooked. The purple plaque campaign does exactly that, remembering remarkable Welsh women. At the end of last week, I attended the unveiling of…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, I know that you will soon be visiting Hwb Cana in Penywaun, which has been brought back to life as a community space by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust using funding from the Welsh Government's community facilities programme. I…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Thank you, Chair.
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Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Thank you. I have one final question. Again, these issues are so intertwined that I think this has been covered fairly well by all of you already, but I'll ask it just in case there's anything else that witnesses want to add. It's around timescales: what…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Thank you. And—. Oh, sorry, Chair.
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Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Thank you. Some witnesses have touched on this already, but just to check if there are any further comments that anyone wishes to make about the extent to which the projects that your organisations deliver through the SPF are likely to differ from those that…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Thank you, Amanda. James.
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Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Thank you, Chair, and good morning to our witnesses. I'd like to ask you some questions on the design of the shared prosperity fund. Firstly, what do you see as the key differences between structural funds and the shared prosperity fund? And what are the…
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Group 11: Wildlife—use of snares (Amendments 44, 45, 46, 43)
It's a pleasure to be able to contribute to the Stage 3 proceedings of this Bill today. I've long been a proponent of banning snares and have made the case for this on many occasions, not least as the UK is one of the few countries in Europe that still…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, you will be aware of recent calls from the European Students' Union for the UK to rejoin Erasmus+. The union described the decision to leave the scheme as 'foolish and self-destructive', and I know that the Welsh Government has also condemned the…
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Questions to the First Minister
I share the Member for Aberconwy's enthusiasm for allotments. First Minister, in Rhondda Cynon Taf the council has used Welsh Government funding to create new allotments to meet local demand, including, for example, in Abercynon and in Aberaman in the Cynon…
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Questions to the First Minister
Turning to school leavers who take up apprentice construction opportunities, First Minister, I've been made aware by FE providers in Cynon Valley that the green economy skills that we would want to grow and nurture aren't necessarily embedded within those…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Okay, thank you. And one final question, if I may, Chair, which might slightly overlap with the question I've already asked. So, the WLGA has said that the level of flexibility given to local authorities in managing the post-EU funds is both a blessing and a…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Okay, thanks. Do any of the other councillors have anything they wish to add on that?
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Thanks, Mark. Just to dig a little deeper there, if I may, with you, would you say that the issues under the old system were around the bureaucracy coming from the Welsh European Funding Office, or having that direction from Welsh Government? And if there…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Thank you, all, for your comments there. In fact, Dyfrig's comments lead me nicely into my second question, on which, I'll start with Mark, if I may. So, Mark, the WLGA and RCT council have been placed on record as welcoming the increased role of local…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Okay. Is it back to me, Chair?
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Thank you, Chair, and good morning, panel. I've got some questions around how the funds are operating in local areas. And firstly, if I could ask our witnesses to outline the progress that your individual local authorities have made in starting to deliver the…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Academics and think tanks
Just about the fact that the WLGA has suggested that the funds have a lighter touch approach to monitoring than the structural funds and whether you would agree with that and whether you think it's a good thing.
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Post-EU regional development funding: Academics and think tanks
Thanks, Chair. Just one final, quick follow-up. So, the WLGA—the Welsh Local Government Association—has suggested that the post-EU funds have a lighter touch approach to monitoring than structural funds did, which allows them to concentrate more on delivery…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Academics and think tanks
I'm interested in what you said there, Joe, about local authorities being perhaps less open about their plans. I think you were alluding there not just to the shared prosperity fund, but to the levelling-up fund, if I was reading you correctly. What would you…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Academics and think tanks
Chair, can I just come back in with another quick supplementary to Joe?
