Steel and manufacturing

Eluned MorganLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…by the UK Government of £25 million to help clear our coal tips; £80 million to be spent to support the Tata workers; two hydrogen projects supported; miners' pensions supported; the national living wage uplifted; contaminated blood compensation; Horizon scandal compensation; an increase in pension…

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Eluned MorganLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…party, after what you did to this nation. I'll tell you about broken promises. Talk to the people in Tata. You said that there was £80 million to help support the people in Tata. You hadn't budgeted for it—you hadn't budgeted for it. The UK Labour Government have and they will honour that commitment…

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Mike HedgesLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

…Hospital, but there are lots of other opportunities for things not to have to go into the grid. Port Talbot is an example. I'm not very happy with the bringing in of steel recycling, rather than steel manufacturing. There's going to be huge energy use—rather than having it coming from the grid, but…

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John GriffithsLabour

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales

…(Wales) Regulations and the recent consultation. What joint working has been established with the food manufacturing and retail industries in relation to how the production and sale of commercially produced food and drink can impact on obesity levels? I'm interested in this because it's really…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Short Debate: The Welsh Economy: Structural problems and putting them right

…to strengthen future delivery, but to do so in partnership. The UK Government's Green Paper on the industrial strategy, which was just published last week, points to eight growth sectors, and it's a 10-year plan offering the certainty and stability businesses need to invest to drive economic growth.…

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Mike HedgesLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Short Debate: The Welsh Economy: Structural problems and putting them right

…to markets for many areas of the economy. Wales has a greater proportion of its population working in manufacturing, public administration, health and social services, agriculture, forestry and fishing than either the UK as a whole or the south-east of England. Wales has a smaller proportion of its…

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Emma Benger

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

Well, across Working Wales, we're very aware of some of the lower economic areas across Wales—Blaenau Gwent and Neath Port Talbot, as you've just mentioned. In Neath Port Talbot, we're doing a significant amount of work at the moment to obviously support the Tata Steel redundancies and the workers…

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Jenny RathboneLabour

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

…gap is consistently higher in Wales than in the UK as a whole, and, in some areas of Wales, like Neath Port Talbot and Blaenau Gwent, the gap is as high as 40 per cent. So, through your work across Wales, how does that reflect on and inform the way you ensure that we are moving towards a society…

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Daniel Biddle

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 8

…level of equity that's needed to be able to say to people, 'Actually, you're not limited to just Neath Port Talbot or Blaenau Gwent.' If Cardiff is thriving through whatever and there are employment opportunities there, then why can't we have a system that means that's accessible to people?

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Daniel Biddle

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 8

…to access some of these services in the more rural locations. And when you look at places like Neath Port Talbot and Blaenau Gwent, obviously, with Tata Steel closing, that's a big employer, so we've got an influx of people now seeking work. As evidence shows, disability gets pushed further and…

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Jenny RathboneLabour

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 8

…is consistently higher in Wales than across the UK as a whole, and in some areas of Wales, like Neath Port Talbot and Blaenau Gwent, the gap is as high as 40 per cent. How does that reflect and inform the work you've been doing in Wales, given there's such a significant disparity?

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Tom GiffardConservative

16 October 2024, Plenary

Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Implementation of education reforms: Interim report'

…on the committee and to have caught the tail end of this? I know that Buffy and I visited a school in Port Talbot to find out more about some of the issues that they were facing, which was really, really insightful, so I'm grateful to Sandfields Primary School for hosting us that day as well. The…

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