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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Certainly. How can we ensure that this will be a success without fair funding, and what answer can you give to those residents I represent who are looking for good news on public transport?
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Yes, of course.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
That’s interesting, and we need to discuss this further, I understand, but it’s still a question as to whether or not you will have any influence or be able to guide that, whether or not they will listen to you or not. Receiving our fair share from the HS2…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
In the same interview, Jo Stevens was particularly dismissive of devolution; she stated that we shouldn’t be fiddling around with structures and systems when there are urgent things to be done. This Senedd stated with one voice a little over a year ago that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Thank you very much for that reply. It's still £4 billion.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Cabinet Secretary, last week, Jo Stevens, the shadow Secretary of State for Wales, was interviewed for Newyddion. She refused to say that it is wrong that Wales received no consequential funding for HS2. As we know, there is not a single inch of track being…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Thank you very much. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
And with regard to the interplay with it, you're a legal expert—well, I'd class you as a legal expert, anyway—and you've looked at the drafting of this Bill; is there anything there that strikes you that would not interplay well with other laws that you use…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
It does. Yes, that's right.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
It's the one says a person who—. It's to do with making it a criminal offence to make or publish 'any false statement of fact in relation to the candidate’s personal character or conduct', of an electoral candidate.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Yes.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Yes.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Nineteen eighty-three.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Thank you for that. Just something you mentioned earlier, to do with Members, and you talked about candidates and others as well—and, obviously, we're in the middle of a general election at the moment—. What's the difference, or how would the interplay…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd. Thank you for coming in this morning. It's very, very interesting to hear your views about this. I just want to explore some of the international examples. In our research, we've looked at some international examples, but whether or…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Chepstow bypass
We have proposed amendments to the motion to try and encompass some of the wider issues in Wales's transport network. Our amendments also seek to address the barriers preventing local communities from making their own transport decisions. The transport…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Chepstow bypass
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I move the amendment.
, Plenary
Motion under Standing Order 26.91 seeking the Senedd's agreement to introduce a Member Bill—British Sign Language (BSL) (Wales) Bill
Diolch to Mark for bringing this Member Bill before us today. I wish you well with this development. I wanted to make a couple of points in support of the Bill and the possible benefits of its introduction. Recently, I attended a meeting with Welsh Women’s…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Just on this, wearing a different committee Chair's hat, I suppose, the financial aspects will need to be looked into carefully, and, as Mark said, that balance between the two. On that financial and possibly other aspect as well, should the person be allowed…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Sorry, if I may. Just on this point, regardless of whether or not the gender quota Bill goes through, there's a very good chance that parties will decide the zip within their lists anyway, because it's something that is a matter of principle. For example, if…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Okay. Well, I think that's exhausted my questions this morning. Thank you.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
But the only alternative then is if somebody was elected as an independent. Do you then leave that seat vacant because that changes the balance?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
And on that list system, I'm assuming—and you'll correct me if I'm wrong—that it should be the initial list that that person was elected upon, rather than if that person had changed parties or changed to be sitting as an independent. So, it would…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
And an alternative voting system or an STV system for a by-election is something that you wouldn't consider.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
And because it's a paired constituency, would you have a threshold of 10 per cent in one and in the other, or 10 per cent overall, or whatever the threshold would be?
