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Plaid Cymru Debate: Fisheries and aquaculture
Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. The purpose of this debate is to raise awareness of an important industry that was once very prosperous in Wales, but that has, unfortunately, been in decline for many years. However, with dedicated support from…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you very much. My final question is similar to a question asked by Laura Anne Jones, but I'm going to approach it from a slightly different perspective, namely the attainment gap in the data published by Qualifications Wales this week, which showed that…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you very much. Well, I look forward to seeing the draft strategy. Just to follow up on that, I've been referring specifically to the statutory sector. The objectives of Cymraeg 2050 recognise the important role of further and higher education in…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you very much, Llywydd. Would the Minister agree with me that one of the most important things that needs to happen in order to ensure that more children benefit from Welsh-medium education is to ensure that qualified bilingual teachers are available to…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much, Deputy Minister. As you know, I've conveyed concerns several times in the Chamber about farms being bought by companies outside Wales for offsetting carbon emissions, and nearly every week we hear about examples of this happening. And as…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
7. Will the Minister make a statement on the current regulatory framework for planting trees for carbon offsetting purposes? OQ57149
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Business Statement and Announcement
Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. Trefnydd, could I ask you for an oral statement on the latest situation in terms of the impact of the NRW advice on rivers in special areas of conservation that are sensitive to phosphates? This, of course, is…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very for that response, First Minister, and I'm sure you would agree that the impact of COVID-19 and Brexit has been very damaging for our rural towns. What we see is a picture of decline in our main market towns across the region: shops, banks…
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Questions to the First Minister
3. How is the Welsh Government encouraging the recovery of rural towns in Mid and West Wales? OQ57126
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Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Okay. Thank you very much.
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Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
If I could just follow on from that, the Institute for Government has suggested that, in order to create a subsidy control regime with buy-in from across all the devolved nations, regulations resulting from the Bill should be made by the UK Government in…
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Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you, Minister. So, the LCM sets out the Government's concern that the Bill around the subsidy regime lacks sufficient detail. So, if you could explain to us what level of additional detail you think is needed in the Bill—and can you…
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Okay. Thank you.
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Diolch yn fawr. Minister, in terms of food and farming, as you know, our rural communities are facing unprecedented challenges, given the imperatives of responding to issues like climate change, the loss of biodiversity, diet-related disease, food inequality…
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Diolch.
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thank you for that explanation on sea fishing and seafood. I think the question that I had was more specific about the aquaculture sector, which is a sector that has great potential in Wales, and I was asking about your support for that specific sector.
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thank you very much. About three weeks ago, I visited a company in Anglesey that is developing aquaculture, and there is great potential, in the opinion of many experts, in the sector. So, could I ask you what you're doing to support and promote the…
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Could you give us an update, Minister, on the seafood strategy for Wales that was launched in 2016? In that strategy, there was a target for delivering an increase of about 30 per cent. So, could you give us an update on whether we've delivered that target…
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
You will understand—and I have listened carefully to what you have already said on this issue—you will understand that asking farmers to move from somewhere where they're producing food mainly to being responsible for producing public goods is going to be a…
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
‘food...should not be classed as a public good, and so should not receive direct state funding.’
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
I want to draw your attention to page 44, top of that page, in the report, and I'm just going to read one part of that paragraph, where it says,
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Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thank you very much, Chair, and good afternoon.
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90-second Statements
Thank you very much. I'm sure that each and every one of you will wish to join me in congratulating the Welsh darts player, Jonny Clayton, on his excellent victory in the World Grand Prix of darts last Saturday evening, the first time he has won that…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you very much. And the final question: Members will be aware that last weekend was designated World Mental Health Day. Given their nature, rural communities can be very isolated, and as a result of the lack of opportunities for people to meet with…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you very much. Scab is a very important issue, again in relation to sheep in terms of animal welfare, and it's an issue that hasn't had sufficient focus over recent years. It is an extensive and increasing problem, unfortunately. The Welsh Government…
