, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
You've mentioned before about overlap with this Bill with other pieces of legislation—the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 Act and potentially the Social Partnership and Procurement (Wales) Bill. Can you go into that a little bit further and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Actually, I'm not quite sure that his head is going to fit out of the committee room door now, Lesley—thank you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
—Governments change, First Ministers change, and one of the concerns I know that the Member bringing this forward has is that, yes, a community food strategy is good, but if you change, there is no incentive here to deliver this if it's not in legislation…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
It's quite nice to hear you say that you're a Minister who actually doesn't like strategies to sit on a shelf—and I've been in numerous organisations where lovely strategies are developed, they sit on shelves; they do sit, they are never developed. You…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
On another point, you've stated previously in the Chamber, and other places, that the community food strategy developed by the Welsh Government actually covers a lot of these areas. Do you think there's enough scrutiny on Government, though? Because this Bill…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you. I'll try to be as neutral in this as I can be, Minister. Have you and your officials taken UKIMA into this? Do any provisions within the Bill actually engage with the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, and does that have any problems with…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I did cover agriculture at the local authority.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
It's the 'how' they are working to address it.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Just to go back a step, Deputy Minister, you talked about agencies with regard to social workers, and you said you're working with them. I'd like to know what you're working on, really, with them, because, as somebody who sat in local government for a while…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
As much as you would like, Minister.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Okay, final two questions from me, Deputy Minister, you’ll be pleased to know. Your paper also states that Welsh Government have reprioritised the £7.2 million annual prevention for early years funding from April 2022, which is used by directors of public…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Yes, adult, but I think it’s positive that it’s being looked at.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Thank you. It’s really positive, actually, to hear that you’re looking at an in-patient unit in Wales. I think a lot of people who are listening to committee who do stuff with eating disorders and who’ve gone through that system will probably be very…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you for that. I want to move on now to something that I know is very important to you, eating disorder services, and the additional £2.5 million that is going into eating disorder services, and that's very welcome, and I think we need to see more…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Yes, one more thing on this before I move on. The £6.63 million isn't a lot of money in the grand scheme of things when you divide it out between all the health boards. And one thing I'm very keen on is making sure that money is actually delivering on what we…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
I've got a follow-up relating to it.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
And it's still you, Deputy Minister, I'm afraid. I want to talk about the 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy. In the paper, the budget refers to £6.63 million being allocated in 2023-24, which is the same as what it's been before. I don't like using the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
It's still me, I think. I'm taking over.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. I want to move on—I know that we've discussed this before—to another priority area and it's perinatal mental health. We only have the one unit in south Wales. Within the draft budget allocation, are you confident that people are going to get…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Yes, thank you, Deputy Minister. It's obvious from your answer that there are a lot of demands on your part of the health budget, and I totally recognise that. You mentioned CAMHS quite a lot in there, and the review that you've done into CAMHS. I think it's…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Thank you. I'll direct my questions to the Deputy Minister, if that's okay, to give the other two Ministers a break for a while. Minister, can you explain the exact additional allocations for children and young people's mental health in the draft budget for…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Developing the hydrogen energy sector in Wales
I'd like to thank Janet Finch-Saunders for bringing this important debate to the Senedd. The hydrogen sector is hugely important to my constituency, as Janet has mentioned. A few years ago, a company called Riversimple moved to Llandrindod Wells to build a…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I'd like to thank you for that answer, Minister. The Welsh Government do hold all the levers here to prevent the strikes, and it's time that the Welsh Government did take some responsibility for this, by, for example, not cutting the education budget in real…
