, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
State pension matters are non-devolved and are the responsibility of the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK, so I've had no discussions of that sort.
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Yes, Delyth, I'm very happy to meet with you and the campaigners. Just to point out, though, we do do a number of things in Wales already. I'm more than happy to discuss more that can be done. So, we work with UK REACH to have a series of regulations in…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much for that question, Delyth. The Welsh Government remains committed to addressing the potential pollution issues, including from chemicals that persist in the environment, in sites associated with former industrial use. We continue to work…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
That was a very good example. Actually, the Cabinet Secretary for economy is still in discussion about the exact way that that is structured, and I know there’s an ongoing conversation. I’ve been part of the ongoing conversation about how that’s structured…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
The honest truth is I don’t know—I would have to take advice. My instinct is that it probably is within our competence, but I wouldn’t want to be 100 per cent until I took some advice on it. Instinctively, though, it sounds like something that would be within…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I mean, I’m tempted to answer your question by saying, ‘Yes, yes, no’, but I’ll elaborate a little bit. So, yes, I do agree that we should try and align as much as is humanly possible, for three very good reasons. First off, because the European Union remains…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Well, certainly, Paul, it bears repeating, of course. We have a very comprehensive programme for government, which is accessible to the public. We report annually on our progress on that. One of the reasons that Welsh Labour has always been elected by the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Well, Paul, I just fundamentally reject the basic premise of that question. I really do not think that that's what it shows at all. Most Governments, across the world, have delivery arms or delivery offices inside them, including many of the previous…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Yes, certainly, Paul. I've explained before, I'm very happy to do so again. I provide oversight of the programme for government programme. I have a bilateral with each of the Cabinet Secretaries on a rolling programme, in which we discuss their progress on…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much for the question, Mick. I really do continue to be concerned about the sustainability of legal aid practices throughout Wales on a number of points, not just on immigration and asylum cases. But we do know that for immigration and asylum…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Mick. The UK Government has responsibility, of course, for legal aid provision in Wales, but to address gaps in advice for immigration and asylum in Wales, in the short term, the Welsh Government has recently provided funding for training and…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much, Jane. Just to shed light on where we are, the initial roll-out of FDACs in England was taken forward around the same time—which was between 2010 and 2014—as we rolled out the integrated family support services early intervention programme…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Rhys, and just to be really clear what we're doing here, the CASCADE evaluation was very good but we have a series of things to go through afterwards. So, I did say that I would come back to you, and it's only just after Christmas at the moment, and…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much, James. I'll just start by saying how pleased we are that we did manage to pilot the family drug and alcohol court programme to test and report in Wales, and I just wanted to pay tribute once again to the families who took the brave step…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you. Llywydd, I understand you've given permission for questions 1 and 6 to be grouped. Thank you. The Welsh Government provided £450,000 for the two-year Wales family drug and alcohol court pilot, which concluded in November 2023. Following publication…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Diolch yn fawr, and thank you very much.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Lovely.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Yes, so—. Well, do you want me to—? Shall I have a go at that, and then I'll come to you, Dylan? So, basically, once we've done this, we'd expect them to refer to this Act, as it then would be, and its provisions. Well, obviously, that's not the case now…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Okay, fine.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
I think that’s just a thing about practicalities and what the effect of it might be. There isn’t a timescale at the moment, but we always endeavour to do just that. For example, it’s not always possible for us to say when the Privy Council is going to meet…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
All the way through this Bill, we refer to ‘Senedd Cymru’ and we call it that all the way through the Bill, so we simply called the clerk ‘Clerk of Senedd Cymru’ to follow the pattern in the Bill. But in all honesty, if she feels very strongly that it should…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
I’m sorry to hear that the clerk is disappointed by that. It was certainly not our intention to upset the clerk to Senedd Cymru in any way. Our assessment is that there isn’t any impact on her functions, and so I’m afraid we just didn’t think it was…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
The truth is, Peter, we haven’t had quite enough time to be absolutely certain that the provision is completely overtaken by subsequent legislation. I know you weren’t a member of the committee when I first set this out, but just to say that we are using this…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
If I’m taking this through the Senedd, just to be absolutely clear, I don’t want the Chair of the committee to stand up and say, ‘That doesn’t quite match the criteria you set out for yourself, does it, Counsel General?’
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
For a long time, it wasn't implemented either in England or Wales. We have absolutely no intention of ever implementing it, but that's clearly a policy decision. It's the policy of this Government that that will never be implemented. In fact, the UK…
