, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of the steel industry in South Wales - evidence session with Tata Steel
This will never come cheap, and every other European Government, and worldwide, is seeing it doesn’t come cheap. So, can I ask, at the moment, in those discussions with UK Government, what are you asking for? What are they offering? What’s the gap? And when…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of the steel industry in South Wales - evidence session with Tata Steel
Thank you, Chair. Thank you very much—it’s good to have you in front of us today. I think this is a crucial issue, because I think many of us here would say, on the importance of moving through that massive, seismic change within the industry towards green…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Chair, if I could just note my membership of the cross-party group on steel, and also my membership of unions who are in front of us later on today, which is on my register of interests.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 redesignation
I’m going to begin by trying to echo that call for all of us to come together and say what we’ve currently got is just wrong, with the HS2 funding and other funding, over many years, and the Northern Powerhouse Rail plans as well. All of that is wrong, and it…
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Mabon. And it's not the same point, despite what was said before. Can I just say: what I would expect from UK Government is responsible engagement with Welsh Government, if there was a responsible Government, in order to negotiate that…
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
On this point—
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Natasha, would you give way on that point?
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Six per cent for Westminster—
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
But I'm not on the committee, so I'm asking you.
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
But it doesn't seem as though you are reflecting the report.
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Yes, I have.
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
I thank you for giving way because it's point that I do take some issue with: £80.6 billion was returned to Government by the Department of Health and Social Care, some of which would have had consequentials for the UK, by the way. Now, in Wales, it was 1 per…
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Will you take an intervention?
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Indeed—I really appreciate you giving way. But have you picked up, either during the report or since, any evidence that the Minister actually was engaged in discussions with the UK Treasury, with the Chief Secretary, actually making this point consistently…
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Would he give way on that point?
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Mark, I wonder whether the committee turned its attention to, as well, the decision that could have been made by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury at the UK level to actually allow flexibility to use that and to pull it back, and to use it for other…
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Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
Would you give way on that, Mark?
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
That’s good to hear. Look, I’m not a puritan. I’ve had a flutter occasionally myself, most recently 10 quid on Wales to beat France in the six nations in March. It didn’t end well. [Laughter.] But, increasingly, gambling nowadays is much easier to access…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
7. What assessment has the Minister made of the appropriateness of gambling advertising and sponsorship in Welsh sport? OQ59387
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
South Wales West not only has the beaches that Altaf has talked about, but it's also got the beautiful valleys as well. So, in the South Wales West region, Minister, Bridgend council has recommitted to its leadership on the valleys park initiative, and we…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. The Counsel General and Members of the Senedd will know that the role of our committee is to look at the constitutional and legal aspects of this, and to put to one side the political or the policy issues that I’m sure other Members will…
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The Construction Contracts (Exclusion) (Wales) Order 2023
Diolch, Llywydd. We considered this draft Order on 27 March, which led to some additional correspondence with the Minister, and we thank her for the response that we received. Our report on the draft Order contains just one merits reporting point, and the…
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Business Statement and Announcement
We're going to go from the highs of success with Wrexham to a very different chart of achievement, unfortunately, that my constituency figured in over the recess period. It's a very worrying chart, based on data provided by Dŵr Cymru, so publicly available…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
My apologies. Let me just bring that pack up. You'll have had this come through later on, colleagues, and I'm just bringing it up here, now, in front of me. So, under the supplementary pack we've had, which my technology is now struggling with—. Bear with me…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
And that brings us, then, to item No. 8, papers to note, and, amongst the various papers, we have correspondence, under 8.1, from the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee to the Llywydd in respect of the Welsh Government's supplementary legislative…
