, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you very much. A warm welcome to you all. We are short of time and we have a number of areas that we want to cover, so I would urge you to be brief, if at all possible, with questions as well as responses. If I could turn immediately to questions, I…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
We'll move on therefore to item 2, the ministerial scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language. A warm welcome to this session. If you could please introduce your officials to us, Jeremy.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you very much.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you, Carolyn. Tom.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you, Heledd. Well, if no-one else has any—. Oh, Carolyn as well. And I'll come to Tom next. Carolyn.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. I'd like to welcome Members to this meeting of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee. In accordance with Standing Order 34.19, I have determined that the public are excluded from attending the…
, Plenary
Debate: Using the UK Government Spending Review to address coal tip safety in Wales
Our landscapes wear the scars of Wales's past. Pitheads, crumbling viaducts, bridges that lead nowhere, and coal tips that stain our mountainsides, tips that speak of a time of soot and clamour, of fires raging underground, and lives buried in the soil. Our…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
Wales and this Senedd have declared climate and nature emergencies, but the legislation needed to underpin the urgency and the emergencies—the environmental governance, nature recovery targets, clean air targets—are all missing, Dirprwy Lywydd. The Welsh…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like a statement explaining the Welsh Government's decision to continue to attend the Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair. The First Minister said in 2019 that he would review the Government's presence at this event, after Leanne Wood…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 4 - Infrastructure
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 4 - Infrastructure
Okay. Thank you. I was going to ask you—. Ed, when you're coming back—because I was going to ask you both if there was one specific thing that you'd like to see changing. I think Ian has just set out what he'd like to see. So, if there was one specific thing…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 4 - Infrastructure
Thank you for your openness about that. Ian.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 4 - Infrastructure
Diolch. Hi, good afternoon, both. Do you have any views that you'd like to share with us on the effectiveness of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales, please?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 3 - Planning
Diolch. Picking up just from where Neil left off there, in terms of some of the creative thinking, outside-the-box options that might be available to the Welsh Government, there has been criticism of the Government in possibly doing too little and too late to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 3 - Planning
That's a really interesting tension, actually, that you—well, I don't know if it's a tension, but the fact that the proportion will be far smaller, but the numbers will actually be greater. But I appreciate that this can't be simply looked at in a silo way…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 3 - Planning
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 3 - Planning
Thank you. Would anyone else on the panel have any thoughts on this? Vicky.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 3 - Planning
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I wanted to ask you about how effective you think the current system is in respect of taking account of the Welsh language in the planning process. Because there's a fundamental link, isn't there, that's been established between the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 2 - Transport
And my other question—diolch, Cadeirydd—is about the new transport strategy and the plans, the structures that are associated with it. What are your views on that? Again, do you see opportunities and do you see risks? Whoever wants to—.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 2 - Transport
Sorry to the sound technicians for unmuting myself. Diolch, Cadeirydd. In terms of the risk that Mark identified about the potential of some areas of policy being either hidden or lost within this new mammoth department, there will be Government advisers or…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Turning finally to governance, Scott firstly had mentioned the need for improved regional working. I think Josh mentioned it as well; well, it's come up in what all of you have been saying actually. The term of corporate joint committees, the CJCs, has come…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Thanks, Josh. And Scott. Sorry, Cadeirydd, I did it again—sorry. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Thank you. Scott or Josh—do either of you want to come in? I know Jenny will want to ask something on this as well. Josh. Sorry, Cadeirydd—I should be asking you to do this. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Thank you, Chair. Thank you. We were talking earlier about how important it is for bus networks, for transport generally to be integrated better into communities and how important it is to try and encourage modal shift, but in order for that to happen, we…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit
What's £20 a week? It's not that much, surely? That's what some of the billionaires in Westminster have implied, but £20 adds up to £1,040 a year: a huge amount for families for whom the pandemic is far from over. And this cut, as we've heard, will happen a…
