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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Fair Work: Annual progress update
Thank you for your statement, Deputy Minister.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Religious buildings
I am the son of a minister, like you. Would you agree with me that one of the best ways of moving things forward would be to have multidenominational meetings to bring local communities together?
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Very soon, Ukrainians will be arriving in Wales in significant numbers as the UK finally pulls its finger out and does its bit for refugees resulting from Putin's aggression. Understandably, many of these people fleeing their homeland will be traumatised as a…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you for that response, Deputy Minister.
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Deputy Minister, last month, Wales recorded its worst ever results for mental health provision for young people. Your own figures showed that 78 per cent of patients referred to specialist child and adolescent mental health services…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Diolch. The pandemic has left a lasting impression on the communities that I represent in South Wales East, and the impact has been more detrimental in the poorest places of the country, exacerbating inequalities that already existed. As we've marked two…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
8. What priority does the Welsh Government give to improving people's quality of life when developing economic initiatives? OQ57837
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Welsh Conservative Debate: The Armed Forces
That is because Wales provides a disproportionately high number of personnel to the armed forces. Many leave an operational service to return to Wales every year in a bid to make the transition to civilian life. A combination of discipline, good skills and…
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Welsh Conservative Debate: The Armed Forces
I'm delighted to be able to participate in this debate this afternoon. Wales has a long history of providing personnel to the UK armed forces. In many Welsh families, there will be some link with the armed forces, either through relatives or friends…
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Questions to the Senedd Commission
Thank you for that response. Losing one's sight is an increasing problem in this country. Yesterday, RNIB Cymru staged an event—an introduction to sight loss—to encourage Members to consider how we would support and communicate with our blind and partially…
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Questions to the Senedd Commission
1. What steps has the Commission taken to ensure that the Senedd is accessible to blind and partially sighted people? OQ57803
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Debate: The General Principles of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
In addition, the regulatory impact assessment fails to outline costs to other bodies arising from the Bill, noting they are 'unknown at present.' However, the Bill is likely to require the post-compulsory education and training sector to alter their…
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Debate: The General Principles of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
At present, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales regulates and provides funding for higher education, whilst the Welsh Government does so for the other tertiary education sectors. The committee acknowledges that the new commission created by the…
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Debate: The General Principles of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Llywydd. I'm pleased to be able to contribute to this debate today as Chair of the Finance Committee. We have made 10 recommendations and, given the time available to me, I will focus on our main concerns. This is the first Bill to be introduced…
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Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
Finally, the committee heard that the Welsh Government's staff budget will increase by £20 million on a recurrent basis from this year onwards. This represents a significant investment and, as a result, the committee asks for further details on how that money…
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Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
The committee welcomes the increase in allocations provided by this supplementary budget, as well as the steps taken by the Welsh Government to mitigate the impacts of the difficult economic challenges we are currently facing. The committee's report was laid…
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Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I am pleased to speak in this debate today on behalf of the Finance Committee. Thank you to my fellow Members for their work on committee. The committee scrutinised the second supplementary budget on 2 March, and I thank…
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Short Debate: Protecting community spaces: Taking back control
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The Institute for Welsh Affairs report released this week made for grim reading. It concluded that Welsh communities are the least empowered in the UK. This was echoed during a conversation I had this week with somebody involved in the…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I listened to your answer there and I hope that you were looking at the Institute of Welsh Affairs report on community empowerment that was and should have been a wake-up call for the Government, which found that communities in Wales are the least empowered…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
Finally, given the seriousness of developments in Ukraine and the unfolding humanitarian crisis, I would like to ask the Minister what scope there is for additional support and funding to be provided for refugees. The First Minister has said that Wales aims…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
The committee welcomes the £162.4 million allocated in the final budget to help those affected by the cost-of-living crisis, with £1.6 million of that allocated for the single advice fund to offer advice and support on income maximisation. We recommended that…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I am pleased to contribute to this debate on the Welsh Government's final budget in my role as Chair of the Finance Committee. The committee's report on the scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget for 2022-23 included 41…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like to request a Government statement on day-care provision for disabled people during the pandemic. I raise this with you again because there seems to be a big contrast between what is provided, with some local authorities, such as Gwynedd and Blaenau…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the meeting on 11 March 2022
So, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, I propose that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the meeting on 11 March this year. Is everyone content? So, we'll go into private session. Thank you very much.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you very much for joining us this morning and I'm very pleased to see you, and thank you very much for giving such interesting answers.
