, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru, without any doubt, are crippling Wales, and they are certainly now debilitating my own local authority. The provisional settlement for 2024-25 is only £3.975 million more than 2023-24. That's the lowest…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. And I have to say it's actually quite amusing listening to Jane Hutt speak, because you've obviously forgotten that Liam Byrne—one of yours, one of Labour—actually left the note saying, 'We've no money left'. [Interruption.] Now, Welsh…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
We know.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Thank you. In 2011, when I was elected—and I was the local government shadow Minister—we raised this then, and there was consensus in this Chamber that the funding formula was flawed then. I make representations to my leader, Councillor Charlie McCoubrey; do…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Will you accept an intervention?
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
I am. I have previously asked whether you would consider introducing a scheme where hospitality businesses that are able and want to sell Welsh produce do so and that we do the 'scores on the doors' type of system. This would allow consumers to choose which…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you, Minister, and that is fantastic to hear, but I just believe we could be doing more. Now, the UK currently imports around 35 per cent of the beef and veal it consumes, or around 250,000 tonnes annually—2,700 tonnes from Uruguay, 14,800 from Poland…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
2. What steps is the Minister taking to promote Welsh local produce? OQ60549
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Aberconwy, of course, is the honey-pot for tourism in Wales. Only last week, Betws-y-Coed was named best staycation in the UK. Tourism is vital to our Welsh economy, employing 12 per cent of our workforce, contributing around £2.4 billion to our gross…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
How many in the last 12 months, say?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay, and then a final supplementary on that one is: how much land have you purchased and how many trees does that mean in real terms?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
What action is NRW taking to assist the acceleration of tree planting on the public woodland estate?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Thank you. And then, moving on to tree planting—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
What is NRW's role in the regulatory impact assessment considering the economic and environmental impacts of the 170 kg limit? Have you carried out any work on this?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Do you anticipate having the capacity to meaningfully monitor biodiversity to track progress towards the anticipated biodiversity targets, and will any of the uplift that you've had from the Welsh Government go into the biodiversity agenda?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Thank you. A question I wasn't able to ask because of faults on this IT is whether NRW do have any contracts with Fujitsu. I'd like an answer to that. But, also, my question now is on biodiversity targets. So, what work has NRW undertaken on the development…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
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, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. I'll just sign in on the phone and you carry on.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Yes. [Inaudible.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Thank you. So, basically—[Inaudible.]
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
Thank you. Would you not agree with me that we should all be rather grateful for the sake of our constituents that the very same Prime Minister that you have mentioned promised to get inflation down, and he has well and truly done that?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
Will you take an intervention?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
Okay. So, while Wales has an NHS workforce strategy and an NHS workforce implementation plan, it lacks a comprehensive NHS workforce plan such as the one developed for England under the UK Conservative Government. Anyway, I would like to record my thanks to…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
Isn't it a good job that we have the Welsh Conservatives here to scrutinise and challenge the failing health service in Wales? So, we know that the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales website lists 1,572 healthcare services in Wales. Of those, 660 services have…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you. You’ll recall that, last year, last summer, I raised the fact that my colleague shadow Minister Laura Anne Jones had accompanied me to Ysgol San Siôr, and they’re not the only school that have raised with me their concerns about there not being…
