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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Now, the written statement outlined the ambition to create a modern approach to hazard management and updating regulation and enforcement. There are concerns, though, for funding. NRW alone has 20 high-risk reservoirs, and they've already spent £2.68 million…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Llywydd. The risk and cost of increased rainfall due to climate change are rising without doubt, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent. Last winter, Natural Resources Wales issued 483 flood alerts—a 16 per cent increase on the previous…
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Debate: Remembrance
Today, as we did on Sunday, as we did yesterday, the eleventh of the eleventh at 11 a.m., we all come together to show our respect and to honour the sacrifices of countless brave men and women who gave their lives for our freedom. One point two million…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: Building safety
Do you know, Cabinet Secretary, I've been working on this now for about four years, prior to my colleague Mark Isherwood? And it has to be said that I am still now being contacted regularly by people who say they feel they're in a desperate situation, they…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm glad that Dawn Bowden finds this funny.
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Questions to the First Minister
It's fair to say I agree with Llyr Gruffydd. In Aberconwy, I'm repeatedly now being told that children are having to wait a considerably long time. I raised this issue a year ago and Lynne Neagle, at the time, mentioned that it was not correct, that people…
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Short Debate: The future of local healthcare in rural Wales
I thank James Evans for bringing this important debate here, and also for allowing me a minute. A new problem that’s started affecting Aberconwy constituents, and indeed Betsi Cadwaladr patients, is the Welsh ambulance service cancelling appointments for…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Right, okay. We are now left with the challenging task of mitigating the impacts of this budget. Yesterday, you were really pleased that you're putting all this money into the public sector and that it would grow the economy. The only way you grow the economy…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Yes. And no commitment to improve the north Wales main line. Ironically too, the only place they do seem to be teaming up is to double down on the attack on our farmers: a callous commitment to extract funds from hard-working farming families, many of whom…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Yes, behave.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Last week’s first attempt at a budget by the UK Labour Government was a sad realisation that we are in for a painful five years, or one term, shall we say. This must surely be described as a budget of broken promises, with a plethora of measures that…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. A new report released last Friday by Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives explains that in 2022-23 a third of children were not considered school-ready, with concerns around speech and language development and…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
7. What support is the Welsh Government providing schools with regard to toddlers attending in nappies? OQ61782
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I thank my colleague Adam Price for raising this really important issue, because for years we've discussed the shortage of affordable homes. I will declare an interest in this matter and refer Members to my declarations of interest. We have so many empty…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget
—and also, you left a legacy of no money.
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget
Yes. You've let down our farmers, you've betrayed our small businesses, you've robbed our pensioners. How can you, Cabinet Secretary for finance, tell me and my group here that this is a good budget? Remember, the Labour Government inherited the fastest…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Now, look, you can pat yourselves on the back if it makes you feel better, but the reality is that this budget is so bad for the people of Wales, and actually the UK, that it's had the thumbs down already from many within our…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you, Counsel General and Minister for Delivery. One of the four Welsh Government priorities the First Minister committed the Welsh Government to was driving forward progress in green jobs and growth, creating green jobs that tackle the climate crisis…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
2. What discussions has the Counsel General had with Cabinet colleagues about the impact of the UK Government’s budget on the Welsh Government’s delivery of its priorities? OQ61784
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Questions to the First Minister
One hundred million pounds is a lot of money and let’s hope that it goes where it should do, to actually stop the nature decline in species that we’re seeing. Wales has seen now that freshwater species populations have declined by 20 per cent, with over 2 per…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Assisted dying
Yes, I will. I'll conclude by saying we shouldn't be talking about the reality of assisted dying. We should be talking about the reality of assisted living. Diolch.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Assisted dying
Of course, as has rightly been pointed out today, assisted dying is complex and emotional, with significant concerns against its legalisation. The changing of law in this regard is a matter for the UK Government. I can understand the Member bringing this…
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Topical Questions
No, I've actually—
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Topical Questions
Just for clarification—I don't know who you were referring to—I haven't had an e-mail about this particular issue from you. I know we spoke outside, but that was about your statement yesterday and nothing to do with NRW. I've got to be honest, this is yet…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay, thank you for that. However, I think it's fair to say, sometimes things go wrong, and it's how they're picked up and lessons learned going forward. I by chance met the parents the other day of Mared Foulkes, the grieving parents. They're still grieving…
