, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you for that. That's very helpful. Chair, I was going to move on and I wanted to ask some questions about the energy company obligation, unless there's anything further on that last point.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you for that. That deals with some of the issues I wanted to raise with regard to implementation and monitoring. With regard to the information that you obtained in that particular way, is it going to be co-ordinated, collected and made publicly…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you for that; that's really helpful. Can you identify which ones haven't been implemented yet and the reasons why?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you. Just a couple of questions. To start, I want to talk about the contracts and the monitoring arrangements, and then I'm going to ask a few questions about ECO schemes. First, you're obviously aware of the previous recommendations that were made by…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Reaching a tipping point? Wales’s littering and fly-tipping epidemic
Llywydd, after many years of gradual progress, many Welsh communities are now experiencing a resurgence in littering and fly-tipping. Councils are struggling to cope. Residents complain of rubbish dumped in back alleys and street corners, and some of our best…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for that answer. Can I very much welcome the extension by 18 months? This is a very important initiative in respect of, particularly, young people who want to get onto the housing ladder. As I understand it, this is a scheme that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
4. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the Help to Buy—Wales scheme? OQ62154
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for those comments. Counsel General, I cannot believe that there will be anyone in Wales who does not believe that a cornerstone of our justice system is the availability of proper legal advice and representation. In fact, without that, our justice…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
2. Will the Counsel General make a statement on the legal support available to people in Wales within the immigration and asylum system? OQ62152
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that answer, First Minister. Can I welcome the progress that's made by Welsh Government in discussions with the UK Government, now that it formally recognises the prolonged and historic underfunding of the rail network infrastructure in Wales? I…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. What discussions has the First Minister had with the UK Government regarding HS2 consequential funding for Wales? OQ62148
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. I don't have any further questions. Thank you for that helpful answer.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Staying on the subject of the exercise of powers, section 7 of the Bill, of course, has extensive powers for Ministers in respect of the registration processes and so on, and that leads on to the issue of enforcement, and of course there will obviously be…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Thank you for that. There's been, of course, considerable engagement with the Wales Tourism Alliance, and of course, one of the concerns they have raised is that there are quite important areas within this legislation that they don't think have been…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Just a couple of questions with regard to the probity of the legislation. You've already referred to the fact, Cabinet Secretary, that there are considerable delegated powers within the legislation. One of the issues that's always of concern to any…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Okay. I look forward to that further information in due course. I've no further questions, Chair.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
If I can move on, then, just in terms of the issue with regard to commissioners and, of course, we know the pressures in respect of which the commissioners and their support bodies have been under. I think both the children's commissioner and the future…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Okay. Thank you for that. You've answered the main points I wanted on those areas. I want to ask you a little bit about commissioners now, but unless someone else has any questions they wanted on those particular areas, I wanted to move on. Chair, is that—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you for that. I'd like to ask you a bit now about one other aspect that obviously comes within your ambit in this budget, and that, of course, is Welsh Government's funding for police and community support officers, very much as part of the community…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Of course, some of the devolved functions we already have in prisons are the health and education responsibilities. Those obviously have some budgeting implications. Are those things matters that are wholly absorbed by UK Government funding, or are there any…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you for that. I was going to ask, really, about some of the examples in respect of the blueprints, but you've given those, and, clearly, there's been a significant development and positivity coming out of those programmes, which I suppose leads, really…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Thank you for that. And of course, part of the goal is also in respect of probation. Perhaps you could just comment on whether there is any resource implication in respect of that. But just with regard to—. You mentioned, of course, the spending and the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2025-26
Just a few questions, Cabinet Secretary, on some of the aspects around criminal justice. Perhaps if I could just start in terms of resources for the devolution of youth justice and probation, because, obviously, this is an area that is being explored at the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Cabinet Secretary, in support of the comments you've made, I wonder if you could just outline precisely which Minister in the justice department is actually responsible and what the planned engagement is with that Minister, because, as has been said, we're…
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Delivering for Wales
Will you prepare a report for us that actually sets out what the next decade of development for twenty-first century schools is, our commitment to funding the continuation of the replenishment of our schools, and also a report showing what has been achieved…
