26 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 5: Co-production (Amendments 19, 18)
Can I respond?
26 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 5: Co-production (Amendments 19, 18)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. These amendments in my name, 19 and 18, are both to do with co-production. A fundamental principle of this Bill is that deaf BSL signers are citizens of Wales who use a different language, albeit that that is often out of necessity rather…
26 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 3: Consultation with the BSL signing community (Amendments 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Thank you, Chair. This amendment, as we've heard from the Member who is responsible for the Bill, is about making sure that deaf BSL signers are directly involved in shaping the national strategy. It would add a clear requirement for Welsh Ministers to…
26 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 2: National BSL strategy (Amendments 3, 16)
Yes.
26 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 2: National BSL strategy (Amendments 3, 16)
Thank you very much, Chair. Before I speak to the amendment, I would like to thank, first of all, all the staff, the clerks, the researchers, the legal team, stakeholders and Niamh Salkeld in the Plaid Cymru group for their help with this Bill. I would also…
20 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Improving access to financial support for people across Wales
The latest ‘Poverty in Wales’ report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights the scale of the challenge before us. It shows that levels of deep poverty in Wales have been steadily increasing, with a proportion of those living in very deep poverty…
20 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Improving access to financial support for people across Wales
Thank you for the statement, Cabinet Secretary.
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you. Thanks, Chair.
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Yes, if I could just conclude, I just want to return very briefly to what Katie from Trussell said. Now, in terms of the picture that you've painted for us of the importance of dovetailing all of these things together to avoid the need for emergency food aid…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
I would just like to return to the issue of emergency food aid. How can we move away—? Clearly, we need to consider preventative approaches, and we've discussed those a little, the dignity, the Big Bocs Bwyd, and the culture around food, but in terms of…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
how to maximise that spending through a whole-school system. I'd be interested in having more detail, if you could provide some on that, and some of those ideas, using that spend and that lever of free school meals.
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Yes, thank you. There's a great deal to consider there, and if you have, especially perhaps Robbie, you mentioned—
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Well, could I ask Janet, then, to give her views on what we've just heard from Simon, as a school head?
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you. It's true, isn't it, that the money that's being spent on free school meals is a substantial amount. We heard in our previous session that it is a very powerful lever that Government has in terms of spending to improve food education, but also…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you. I just wanted to return to those questions as to how the Welsh Government can support this provision, particularly emergency food aid. Do you think that the balance, in terms of the support provided by Welsh Government to emergency food aid…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Yes, thank you very much.
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Thank you. Just one final question in terms of that balance between funding emergency food aid provision and then supporting those long-term preventative solutions to tackle food poverty: do you think that the Government is striking that right balance at the…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
I think, Pearl, you, in the evidence that you provided to us, have said that the current Government efforts to address the multiple challenges that face the food system remain fragmented across numerous policy areas. So, what changes are required to address…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Okay, thank you—
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Thank you. Did anyone else want to come in? Just to develop on that, what you're saying is that what we have at the moment isn't providing that pathway towards the outcome that we want to see, namely improved access to healthy, affordable and nutritious food…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to ask a few more detailed questions on Government strategies in this area. We've touched on them to a certain extent in relation to some of the challenges that you've already outlined. So, thinking specifically now about the…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you, Chair. I'm a trustee of an independent foodbank, PANTRY, in Pontardawe.
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 10. The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill
We are fast approaching a transformative moment in the history of devolution, which will see the foundations of our democracy finally coming of age. It is vital that this process of constitutional reform is not simply a matter of updating structures and…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch. I've raised with the Government on more than one occasion the impact funding decisions have on the delivery of safe, lawful and sustainable commissioned social care services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. Your response has…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. How is the Welsh Government ensuring that adults with learning disabilities and autistic people are supported? OQ63659
