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Debate: Remembering and supporting our Armed Forces community in Wales
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The remembrance period offers an opportunity for us all to remember, reflect and recognise the contribution of those who have served and those who continue to serve. It's a time to pause and to collectively pay tribute to the all too…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thanks, Vikki. So, the First Minister’s already announced that the social partnership and public procurement (Wales) Bill would be a first-year Bill in this Senedd term, so we are currently planning to introduce the Bill during spring 2022. As I said, I did…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thanks, Vikki. And, I think, Chair, if I pick that point up around the Fair Work Commission's recommendations, a key priority at the outset of this term is going to be the social partnership and public procurement Bill, and one of the six key priority…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thanks, Jane, just briefly, if I may, and, Altaf, thanks for the questions. Just to say more broadly that this position I have now within this portfolio is a new position, and what it does enable us—as you know, I'm the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
If I may come in just on that point, Jack, that you asked around developing policy and legislation that is in line with the Act. I just thought it might be easier to briefly highlight how the social partnership and public procurement (Wales) Bill we're…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Justice
Thanks, and I'm Hannah Blythyn, Deputy Minister for Social Partnership, and with me today is Jo Salway, who's the director for social partnership and fair work.
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
I thank the Member for making it in with his question there, and again raising some very valid points around the accessibility of procurement and the opportunities that it brings, not just in terms of creating decent work, but actually in supporting those…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
I thank the Member for getting the question in at the eleventh hour. It's a really key question in terms of actually making sure that we don't impact on things when we know that there's value there already. And like I said in the statement, there'll be more…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
Can I thank the Member for her question? And I note that the Member has done a lot of work around the challenges of what digital means for the world of work, the future of work and the pitfalls that that could actually bring as well as potential. We know…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
Thanks, Deputy Llywydd, and the Member makes some really constructive points around, like you said before, the potential that procurement gives us here in Wales to really make a difference, to actually support work, but by default to actually support the…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
I thank the Member, Jack Sargeant, for his contribution, and for actually using the opportunity to highlight the positive case for trade unions and actually to disabuse the reality from the rhetoric and the myths around it. We saw in north-east Wales…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
I'll try my best to address some of the key points there. You touched on, at the outset of your contribution, the potential, the power and the leverage that's there with procurement within Wales. As I said in the statement, we think the policy direction of…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
Thank you for your questions.
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm not quite sure where to start with that—it's straight out of the Conservative caricature playbook in reverting back to the 1970s narrative when it comes to trade unions and working people. It's disappointing, but sadly…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Update on the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The Welsh Government is committed to using every lever available to us to improve working lives and workplaces across the country. We are resolute in our ambition to become a nation of fair work, working together to ensure decent and…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality in Wales
Can I thank the Member for her question and highlighting some of the excellent work that is happening in schools in her own constituency of the Rhondda, but also right across Wales? I think it's really important to talk about this and also share it so we can…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality in Wales
I thank Joyce Watson for her question and her work on this area as well, with other Members of the Senedd and the Senedd Commission too. I think, like you say, it's only right that the beacon of democracy in Wales, our Senedd, our Welsh Parliament, leads the…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality in Wales
I thank the Member for her contribution, and I know you've got a proven record in the past as a committed ally to the LGBTQ+ community and thank you for everything that you've done. In terms of the question you make around Pride, Pride has changed…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality in Wales
Diolch—thanks. Thank you for that contribution—a really comprehensive and passionate contribution. I welcome you to your role, which you're so clearly passionate about, and I look forward to actually being able to work with you on these areas where there's a…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality in Wales
Can I thank the Member for his contributions and for his support? I think, you know, this is an area, as it should be, that we can rise above party political lines on and all strive together in the pursuit of equality, and to make Wales a safe place for…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality in Wales
Diolch, Llywydd. June is recognised in places around the world as Pride Month: a chance to reflect on how far we have come and what we have achieved together, to celebrate our LGBTQ+ communities, and to pay tribute to the trailblazers who came before us—the…
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Short Debate: A fair deal for workers
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I want to start by thanking my colleague and constituency neighbour Jack Sargeant for bringing this debate in the Senedd today. As someone who has spent the vast majority of her working life working for a better deal at…
