, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost-of-living crisis and housing
Thank you to Plaid Cymru for bringing this debate to the Chamber today. Insecurity around housing continues to be a key issue facing residents across Wales, as we've heard, and especially across Bridgend and Porthcawl, my own community. This has undoubtedly…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
My question then to the Minister—. I just want to say a huge thank you, because you really have engaged with all of the issues and queries that I've put to you. You truly are listening to the sponsors and the guests. And my question is, to the Minister…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Thank you, Minister. I welcome your statement today. My constituent, Amy, has recently shared a video of the arrival of her Ukrainian guests at Bristol Airport, which has actually now had over 3.2 million views on social media, and she did this to show the…
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report: 'Minding the future: The childcare barrier facing working parents'
Let me start by thanking my colleagues and the clerks of the Equality and Social Justice Committee, as well as all of those who the committee consulted to be able to produce this report. As a member of the committee, I wanted to state how crucial it is that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. I also really want to thank you for your recent trip to Coychurch Primary School in Bridgend to see pupils take part in a Spectrum Cymru session to learn about feeling safe and expressing emotions. As a relatively new Member of the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
8. How is the Welsh Government promoting healthy relationships in the school curriculum? OQ57899
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Thank you very much, Minister. Thank you, Chair.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Okay. Thank you. The other point that I was going to make, then: we heard a lot of organisations tell us that, in some cases, it really did feel like it was a boiler replacement service. So many homes just had a replacement boiler, and that was very much to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
So, you think it's unlikely then that they'll be ever be split into two programmes? You think they'll always stay with the one?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Thank you, Chair. Just looking at the decarbonisation and how that fits together with the agenda to tackle fuel poverty, so we heard a range of views from people and organisations about whether it is actually possible to tackle both decarbonisation and fuel…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Okay, thank you ever so much, Minister. Thank you, Chair.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Okay. And then the last question: do you expect the number of people living in or at risk of fuel poverty in Wales, do you think it's likely to have significantly increased or decreased since the last update?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Okay. So, that's something—. So, NEA Cymru said that they would be out in spring 2022. So, at the end of April, we can expect those?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Okay. Thank you very much. And just to double check as well, with the revised fuel poverty projections, did you mention in your previous answer that they're due at the beginning of April?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you, Minister, for being here today. So, the fuel poverty advisory panel met for the first time last July, and they talked about the progress on the fuel poverty dashboard. So, we know the dashboard will include data…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Thank you very much, all of you, and thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Thank you very much, Gwyn. Huw, do you have anything to add?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
That's brilliant. Thank you ever so much, Gareth. Gwyn, did you want to come in and add to that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Hello. Thank you, all, for coming to speak with us again today. We've got a lot of questions to get through and not much time, so I'm going to group these together. You've highlighted a number of concerns relating to the impact of the agreement on your…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you, Minister, and thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you. I hope it's okay, Chair, if I just throw in another question that has come to mind. I know quite a few people who work in the hospitality sector, and as you know, Minister, data collection and surveillance in the workplace is something that I'm…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you. When we heard evidence, we heard from people who had been working in the industry for, like, 30 years, really hard, who'd had an entire career out of it and still found it really unfulfilling, and they were the ones who were really saying to us…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you for being here, Minister. I don't want to go over things that we've already covered. We've already looked at making sure that there's a proper career path in the retail sector, for example. So, how does the Welsh…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you very much, Minister. I will hand back to the Chair now so we can get through as many questions as possible. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you, Minister, for being here today. You've touched on this already, but the Ukraine war has been described as being catastrophic for global foods. Russia and Ukraine are two of the biggest producers in agriculture and food…
