6 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
During a period of climate unpredictability, energy insecurity and environmental apprehension, it is imperative to allocate investments towards sectors such as biodiversity, marine welfare, waste management, decarbonisation, renewables and flood protection…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Vocational qualifications
Thank you for your statement, Minister. Of course, vocational qualifications are extremely important to the future of our children, yet after years of waiting for this, why was this announcement only revealed under cloak and dagger last week? All three other…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you. Homelessness is a key measure, of course, of a society's prosperity, so let's have a look at the figures during your tenure, First Minister, of five years. Last year, 5,481 households, over 10,000 individuals and 3,000 children were placed in…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. What action is the Welsh Government taking to tackle rising levels of homelessness across Wales? OQ60664
1 February 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you.
1 February 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Yes, that's fine. Thank you. And of course, an offer of residential outdoor education and who has taken up that offer would need to be tracked to ensure that that offer is made to all—now, this is what I don't like—entitled pupils. I've raised my concerns…
1 February 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Great. Thank you. And, once again, thanks to all the team in the Welsh Parliament supporting Sam with this. I think this is so important. Now, requirements on local authorities and schools—. So, the Bill does place a duty on Welsh Ministers to take all…
1 February 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you. I'm fully supportive of this Bill. Sadly, in my constituency, I've seen an outreach facility gone. So many local children were never using it, it was people from away. Sam, when you refer to 'all'—. It's my first time on this committee on this…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates relief
Thank you. The waste separation Act now is also another burden for our businesses, because they've now got to separate, put it in different receptacles—another further cost, and you can understand why they ask. Do you actually agree with that—that they've…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates relief
Will you take an intervention?
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates relief
Thanks, Laura. The businesses actually need you now, Minister, more than ever. With increased inflation, food costs and energy costs, they are really in a desperate situation. Shocking figures show that, last year, Wales lost 63 pubs. It is estimated that…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates relief
Yes.
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates relief
Now, we know, and our businesses know, that Welsh Labour in Wales boasts the highest business rates in the UK. They are unfrozen and, unlike in Conservative England, rising frequently. Alongside this, the Welsh Government's physical negligence has forced them…
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
No, no, but that's the term that they use.
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
'Rainwater harvesting' it's called.
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Thank you.
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Thank you. How do you measure your progress?
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
So, you've done a renewable energy report, and the flooding—those two projects.
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Can I just—? Sorry to interrupt. On that one, on the flooding one, there'll be a report, will there?
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Could you give me an assessment of progress against the commission's identified outcomes, and can you provide examples of tangible achievements today?
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
And how do you manage your relationship with the Welsh Government as it relates to making sure you're really independent?
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Thank you.
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Are you still confident in the ability of the infrastructure commission to manage conflicts of interest, given the recent media stories?
31 January 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Can I just ask a question before I ask this one? How does your work then fall in with, like, the future generations commissioner, and then the interim assessor as well that we have of environmental—? Because I just see quite—. Is this duplication, or not?
30 January 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: White Paper for a proposed Bill on environmental principles, environmental governance and biodiversity targets
Thank you, Minister, for this statement. The White Paper is certainly a step in the right direction, because it does put nature, the environment and biodiversity at the forefront of our minds in terms of legislation. However, could you solve a little problem…
