4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
The framework document that set out the parameters for the relationship between the Welsh Government and Industry Wales talked about fostering a relationship, and I'm quoting now, 'based on mutual trust and respect and open and honest communication.' In your…
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
Yes. Okay.
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
I mean, you are Industry Wales, aren't you? You know, just from your own experience, is this how a business, for example, would make this kind of decision, based on a report done with Copilot without a proper cost-benefit analysis with numbers attached, or at…
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
And were there numbers in the review, or was it just kind of qualitative statements, which can sometimes be impressionistic? Was there a focus on outcomes? Was there an attempt to look at a sort of cost-benefit analysis of the different options and risks…
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
Yes, just to drill into that for a second, for example, what Copilot will do is it will give its own weighting to certain voices, and unless you're actually transparent about that and ask the AI, if you like, then you might easily give—. The AI itself might…
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
And were the—? So, there's a relatively small set of interviews, with unnamed organisations, even; they're not set out in the report. Were the statements checked for accuracy, for example, to your knowledge, from reading the review?
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
Just for me to understand that, much of the evidence, you're saying, confirmed the need for a bespoke, Wales-specific entity—from what you're saying. But the recommended option then is to get rid of Industry Wales and rely on UK-based business organisations…
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
Do you have some concerns that you want to share with us just in terms of the quality of research that you would expect in any piece of work, really?
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
You've seen the review report now, yes?
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
Yes. Good morning. From what you've just shared with us, I wouldn't categorise this as an open-ended evidence-based review. It seemed as if, from what you were saying, they already had a preferred outcome in mind, and the review was a means to that end.
4 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
My constituency includes a number of small schools, some of them in deeply rural areas, but some of them are in post-industrial communities, and, at present, no consideration is given in the school organisation code to small schools that don't come under the…
4 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
4. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the Welsh Government's policy regarding small schools? OQ63936
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Debate: The Police Settlement 2026-27
This settlement reflects, once again, the cost to Wales of the absence of devolution in the area of justice and policing—not a financial cost alone, although that is very real and increasing, but also a democratic cost, the cost of being subject to a…
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
You have served across portfolios and now as Minister for Delivery, and as this may be your last question session in office, I was wondering if you would reflect on what you've learned and what you think your successors in Government, whoever they are, should…
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
But the fact that you've moved the target of ending homelessness eight years, from 2026 to 2034, I think, speaks volumes. Now, your closest counterpart at Westminster, Darren Jones, has recently argued that when governments repeatedly miss milestones it's not…
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Counsel General, I'd like to ask you a question today in your role as Minister for Delivery. In its new pledge document, Welsh Labour talks about expanding childcare, growing our national forest, ending homelessness and raising school standards. But by…
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Could I just ask—? When, for example, police mergers, a single Welsh force, was last mooted by a Labour Government, they did actually commission a Senedd committee—well, an Assembly committee in those days—to give its view. Do you think that, actually, what…
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
On policing reform and the abolition of the police and crime commissioners and the White Paper et cetera, could you just update the committee on the latest state of the discussions that you've had in terms of what the future entails for Wales and the role of…
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
On that very point then, what practical preparation is the Welsh Government taking so that, if probation or youth justice were devolved, in whatever form, the next Welsh Government could take those responsibilities on without delay?
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Why not? He was prepared to say—. UK Ministers are prepared to say that they disagree with everything that you've just said, so why don't you say what you think in relation to his position?
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Lord Timpson told us that devolving probation isn't a priority, because the system is under huge pressure. What's your response to that?
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
The clear assumption—. The focus on youth justice probation emerged from the Gordon Brown report; the clear assumption from everyone was that this was referring to legislative devolution. I mean, there was a reference in the Gordon Brown report that nothing…
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I think Alun Davies wants to come in.
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Let's turn to those matters, then. Have you had, from the UK Government, a timetable for devolving probation and youth justice?
2 March 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
If it's not the splitting of responsibilities, then, between different Ministers, beyond COVID, what else explains the lack of progress in relation to these recommendations that you are responsible for as a Government?
