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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Many thanks for your answer, Minister. The nuclear sector across Wales is, of course, very strong and especially in the north where it forms part of the buoyant nuclear arc, and we have many investors in the region. And there's renewed talk, of course, of a…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
8. Will the Minister make a statement on the nuclear energy sector in Wales? OQ60707
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2022-2023
Thank you. Just finally from me, a quick question about Jobs Growth Wales+. Your report says that enrolments remain low and that too few learners are accessing meaningful opportunities in terms of work experience. What would you like to see being done by…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2022-2023
To what extent, then, are the less-developed numeracy skills that we're seeing a contributing effect to reduced completion rates in apprenticeship frameworks? The completion rates used to be phenomenal, above 80 per cent in Wales, whereas I think in England…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2022-2023
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to start with some questions about numeracy skills, if that's okay. Now, your report highlights that learners' numeracy skills are less well developed than previous cohorts prior to the pandemic. To what extent is this impairing…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, thank you for your clarity on this matter, but, for the avoidance of any doubt, can you confirm again that you will consider every response to the consultation thoughtfully and with great consideration, and that those responses will help to…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Well, Minister, thank you for that answer, and it will reassure, I'm in no doubt, more than 600 people who are employed at the Kronospan plant in Clwyd South, almost all of whom are unionised. They are members of Unite the Union, and they contribute, and the…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
6. Will the Minister make a statement on the economic value of the wood panel industry to Wales? OQ60645
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you to Altaf Hussain for tabling this important question. Of course, in order to deliver more social housing, we need to have effective planning systems in place across local authorities. Tory Members would do well to learn lessons from what's happened…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Great. Thanks, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you. Just finally, have you had any reflections on what we’ve heard in regard to the social pressures around these visits and, in particular, parental anxiety and learner anxiety? Have you had any reflections in particular over how anxiety and social…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Great. Thank you. When you were last in front of this committee, you told us that the main barrier to accessing residential outdoor education was financial constraints and that the Bill will remove that largest barrier. You'll be aware that we've had a lot of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thanks, Chair. Thanks, Sam. Thanks, officials, as well. I'm just going to continue with regard to the provision that may be available or may not be available for disabled children and those with additional learning needs, regardless of whether they're mental…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Apologies. I was just wondering whether the Minister has approached you to address the concerns that you raised in your letter to us.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
—to the concerns that you raised in your letter to us to you yet?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thanks for that. Thanks, Sam. I was just wondering whether the Minister—[Inaudible.]
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: BlasCymru/TasteWales
Minister, thank you so much for your statement today. It is fantastic to see the value of the food sector to the Welsh economy, and the way it provides so many work opportunities for people up and down Wales. I'd also echo the comments from Jack Sargeant…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you, Minister, and thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Okay, thanks. And then, there are a number of references in your paper that the guidance to be issued by the Welsh Ministers is not appropriate, and that's for a range of reasons, including your views on it being mandatory and restrictive. Could you just…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you. If the Bill was to be taken forward, then, who do you think the statutory duty to provide residential outdoor education should fall on?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thanks, Chair. Thanks, Minister. Your paper says that the Bill undermines the flexibility of the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021. Can you explain your concerns on that point and elaborate on what you mean when you say there are very serious reasons…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you. Thanks, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you. Just one final question, then, from me, Chair, and it's completely open, completely general. Are there any other elements that you'd like to see within the Bill, or, indeed, anything amended?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Lovely. Thanks, Claire.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you, Ian. Just following that, then, is it fair for us to assume that you would prefer to see a good degree of flexibility in terms of the definition of the age or specifying the age or the year that young people should experience compulsory outdoor…
