9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session on the electoral and boundary reform experience in Scotland
Thank you very much for being here this morning. I'm going to ask some questions about Boundaries Scotland's experience of taking on additional responsibilities for reviewing Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries and any changes that were made to how…
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Absolutely. And just to add, for my own party, Welsh Labour, all 17 women MSs here were selected on some form of all-women shortlist, or some sort of mechanism like that. So, that's why it is so crucial. But, as you said, that's not the public; that's within…
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
That would be extremely useful, yes, please. Thank you.
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Thank you. You've actually answered a couple more of my questions. I did want to ask—. We've heard some evidence this week, actually, from our Youth Parliament Members, which was tremendous. It's really great to get their perspective on this. It was quite…
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Thank you very much.
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Thank you very much. Thank you, both, for being here today. Can I ask you your views on the impact the proposed electoral system could have on the potential for coalition or minority governments?
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral systems academics
Thank you very much, Professor Clark, and thank you, Chair.
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral systems academics
Okay. Thank you very much. And coming to you now, Professor Clark, if I could just ask, I know that your expertise is in electoral systems and administration, and particularly STV in Scotland, so it would be really helpful if you could draw on your knowledge…
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral systems academics
Yes, of course. And just to ask as well: in your written evidence, you also talked about—which was, I suppose, quite worrying and quite surprising—that, actually, you found since the first elections of the then Assembly, a large proportion of voters…
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral systems academics
You did say that, yes.
9 November 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral systems academics
Thank you both very much for being here this morning. Yes, we're going to delve a little bit more into the views on the impact of the electoral system that's being proposed by the Bill on voter choice. So, if I can come to you first, Dr Larner, you found in…
8 November 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Can carers afford to care?
Thank you very much, Sioned Williams, for allowing me to speak for one minute today. I wanted to focus on young carers. Many of you have met Ollie Mallin, who is a member of the Youth Parliament—a lot of you are nodding here. He is a wonderful young…
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Diolch. Thank you very much, Minister. I'll hand back to you, Chair, so that we can get through the rest of the questions this morning.
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you very much, Chair. I'm going to try to compress some of the questions that we have around diagnostic testing and therapy interventions. So, the recovery target is to increase the speed of diagnostic testing and reporting to eight weeks and 14 weeks…
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Yes. Thank you very much, Chair. I just wanted to ask, in terms of eating disorder services, Deputy Minister, I understand that the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee is looking at commissioning in-patient beds for adults with eating disorders in…
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Yes, thank you, Chair. On this, obviously, I have been raising the shortage of Elvanse, which is having a hugely detrimental effect on adults and children across Wales. I know that you've been very much on this, health Minister, so thank you. But I'm also…
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you very much, and thank you, Chair.
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you very much. I just wanted to ask, as you've mentioned that there are actions being taken though to reduce that cost, if that could mean, though, that there will be less spending on agency staff and that that will lead to less surge capacity this…
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you all for being here this morning. I'm going to ask some questions about the workforce now. So, as we know, staff shortages in the NHS can result in increased costs and inefficiencies. This could be increased overtime…
7 November 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Tata Steel
My grandfather, Patrick Murphy, from New Ross, Wexford, helped to build the Port Talbot steelworks in the 1950s and worked there until he retired, as did my Dad in his summer holidays, and my uncles and my cousins, who were all raised in Bridgend as a result…
7 November 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Annual Report 2022-23
So, I would like to know the discussions that you've had with the UK Government about the report that they came out with in 2020 calling for implementation to make it better for children and mothers going through that situation, because at the moment it is…
7 November 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Annual Report 2022-23
I also want to echo everything that everyone said about your dad, Jack. Carl Sargeant very much was a trailblazer in saying that it is men who need to change at a time when nobody was saying that. He led by example, and you continue that legacy. My…
7 November 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Myself and Huw Irranca-Davies, MS for Ogmore, recently have been meeting with lots of young people across both of our constituencies. We actually met with a group of young people, organised by Leonard Cheshire, around 50 young people, and they could ask us…
6 November 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': evidence session 2
Absolutely. Thank you very much. Thank you, all. Thank you, Chair.
6 November 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': evidence session 2
That's a really good point. Thank you very much. And just to mention, another group is the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller community. The plan does include an action to co-design and publish the statutory Gypsy, Roma and Travellers guidance for schools. It has been…
