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Short Debate: Full-face coverings are against British values
Carrie Harper, Joe Martin, Steven Rodaway—
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Short Debate: Full-face coverings are against British values
Face coverings have no place in British and Welsh society. Let's take a look at the city of Newport, the city that holds the unenviable title of the worst high street in Britain. Disaffected young people have run through businesses, causing a decimated high…
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Short Debate: Full-face coverings are against British values
Diolch, Lywydd. It's good to see the Chamber so full for a short debate. I had no idea I was so popular. I'd like to give a minute's time in this debate to Joe Martin, Sarah Cooper-Lesadd, Francesca O'Brien, Carrie Harper, Steven Rodaway and Kiera Marshall…
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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Not at all. Reform has been very clear: we will build the M4 relief road. So, that's our position. That's the one we're currently going down, and it will not be a toll road. It will be paid for out of the sovereign wealth fund from the UK Government. Thank…
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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Didn't know it was coming.
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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Didn't know it was coming.
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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Well, good news, Ken: I can see straight through you, so no problem there. [Laughter.]
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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Oh, have I waited for this one. [Laughter.] Now, we, Reform, will of course support the motion today. It's pretty clear, though, that it's an obvious attempt to cut the strings of Labour's puppet master, Mark Drakeford. Now, we welcome the decision and we…
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Thank you, Minister. The biggest word in that statement I picked up on was 'if' we get this right. That's a very big 'if' indeed. But, moving on, today, Reform UK will lead a debate calling for a ban on face coverings used to conceal identities and intimidate…
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Thank you. I thought I was going to get called—excuse me. Minister, thank you for that, but, as we move on, unlike Plaid's new energy quango, North sea drilling could unlock billions for the UK economy, support thousands of jobs and strengthen our energy…
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Minister, as discussed recently in this Chamber, 500 jobs in Admiral are at risk of redundancy. These are real Welsh people, real Welsh families and actual livelihoods that are now facing uncertainty. Many of those jobs…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Cyber Security and Resilience (Network Information Systems) Bill
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Now, at a time when threats to our national security are growing, protecting Britain and Wales from cyber attacks has never been more important. We live in a world where a single cyber attack can bring businesses to its knees and…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Update on the National Energy Strategy
Thank you for your statement, Minister. Across Wales, families have faced and continue to face some of the largest energy price increases anywhere in the developed world. Yet the statement today makes it clear that this Government is committed to one thing…
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Statement by the First Minister: 60th Anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster
First Minister, 60 years ago, we know that 144 lives were lost in Aberfan, and 116 of those were children. Now, I cannot comprehend what it must be like to send your child off to school and not have them return. For the families, the survivors and the…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Transport: Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Wales's Transport Network
Minister, I've listened very carefully to the statement, and I remain concerned that we are hearing far more about the challenges facing our transport network than the actual action being taken to address them. The reality is that passengers across Wales have…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting
Agenda item 5 is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the remainder of the meeting. Does any Member object if we move into a private session? No. Okay, thank you very much. We'll move into private.
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Papers to note
Moving on to agenda item 4, which is papers to note, the papers do not require decisions or discussion by the committee, but please make it known if you would like to comment on any of them. The papers in question are correspondence from the Llywydd to the…
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Updates to previous petitions
Okay. So, if we can include those in the letter back to the petitioner and then we'll move on to close this, with those recommendations. Okay, that's what we'll do. Thank you. That includes the allocation of today's petitions.
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Updates to previous petitions
Thank you. Anybody else like to add anything? Just from my point of view, I note that the petitioner wasn't satisfied with the Minister's response and felt that it didn't adequately address what the petition is calling for. Do we think it's worth going back…
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Updates to previous petitions
Okay, thank you. Anybody else like to come in? No. Just from my perspective, I'm in agreement. We do have a debate coming up on ALN and I think, while we should close this particular petition, the points that it raises would be worthwhile revisiting during…
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Updates to previous petitions
No worries. Okay, so happy with that decision to close this petition but to encourage the petitioner to contribute to the consultation, and to highlight the fact that there was a petition with such a good number of signatures to it. The next one is P-07-1589…
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Updates to previous petitions
Yes, absolutely. So, their views are going forward, just under a different mechanism, effectively.
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Updates to previous petitions
If we say that we—
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Updates to previous petitions
Just to clarify, are you recommending a closure, and then—?
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Updates to previous petitions
Okay. So, to confirm and summarise, we'll keep this one open, recommend it's taken forward for Plenary debate, and review it as it progresses. Thank you. The next item is P-07-1588, 'Introduce a Basic Income for the Arts scheme in Wales, modelled on Ireland’s…
