, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Rent Smart Wales landlords, some of them—. The training for those landlords under Rent Smart Wales had been rated red in the progress update regarding the nation of sanctuary policy. What was the impact of the delivery delay in terms of providing this…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
What is the latest position regarding the travel scheme and why was there a hiatus between the scheme being brought to an end and a new scheme being put in its place?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Because of a lack of time, maybe could we have some brief answers. I know that this is a broad-ranging area. In the context of this review of the nation of sanctuary policy, how have lessons from the response to the situation in Ukraine informed that review?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to turn now to the broader policy of the nation of sanctuary, which you've referred to already. I just would like to ask how the Welsh Government has built on the progress update that was published in early 2024. That is, given that…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
I’d like to just put on public record, in the wake of the response from David Richards, that it’s obvious to me that the ministerial code, in its current form, is not fit for purpose, and it is necessary to have a new framework. Even compared with the code in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Thank you for that. If I could come back, just to ask would—looking forward, of course, to reading the work that the auditor was referring to. I wonder if there was a way of looking at the work that the National Audit Office had undertaken about 15 years ago…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Thank you, Chair. I agree basically with the point that Mike Hedges made about the need for transparency. I think that that would be a great help to us as Members of the Senedd and as committees in terms of scrutiny, but also help with the broader public…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
As you're aware, Chair, I won't be taking part in the part of the meeting and our deliberations on the Commission. So, I just wanted to put that on the record, and that that will be reflected in the Record of Proceedings.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I'm grateful to the Cabinet Secretary for her response. There is a dire need in terms of homelessness and social housing in the Ammanford and the Amman Valley area. For example, there are around 400 people on the council’s housing waiting list in Ammanford…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
3. What support does the Welsh Government offer to organisations that convert empty commercial property into residential houses? OQ61799
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales
I welcome the tacit admission in your statement of a situation where increasingly teachers are fearful for their physical safety and indeed their mental health, facing a torrent of abuse and violence in many situations. But what you're suggesting so far I…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Plaid Cymru welcomes the principles behind the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, which seeks to transition franchised passenger railway services, as we've heard, from private to public ownership, which is a long-standing policy goal for us…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
The question is, of course: whatever the process, consultation or not, have they been relieved of the responsibility to pay Welsh taxes in relation to their holdings and properties in Wales? If you don't know the answer now, perhaps you could write to me and…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
The Welsh Government currently is paying rent to the Crown Estate, so I would urge you to take the same moral stance that Gwynedd and hopefully Carmarthenshire will do. In terms of The Sunday Times and Dispatches report, it did demonstrate that the duchies of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. Counsel General, you will be aware of the reports of the past few days that show the significant money being made by the royal family through the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster from the public sector, and also, of course, the…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 11
Thank you very much.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 11
Prompted by the Chair, I just wanted to ask what's your view on where we can set the boundary, then, in a framework for adjudicating on deliberate deception between, for example, statements of opinion or belief, which we would want to protect as part of free…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 11
I'm interested in the arc of the development of the British constitutional principles that you alluded to earlier. Before the—. As you say, you referred to the 'good chaps' theory, or the honourable gentleman and honourable ladies period, where conventional…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 11
Right. I've got a few supplementaries, but maybe I'll cast my eye over the notes in due course. Just taking our minds back to the Boris Johnson case, isn't it, in a sense, though, still indicative of the general rule that, in a self-regulating parliament…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Chair, I'd like to put on record the fact that I did take part in the same workshop as Professor Blick took part in relating to this general question about legislation on deception.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Well, I think that's something that we need to explore, what powers do we have. But it's quite clear the First Minister decides the ministerial responsibilities. If she would prefer to give those responsibilities to the Deputy First Minister, then she has the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I don't think it's acceptable, really, for the First Minister to decline our invitation, and I think that we should press the First Minister further to appear before the committee.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
The Welsh Government had its own borrowing powers, but that's a wider discussion.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
I think the borrowing powers were actually abolished, not transferred. I remember it well, but—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
A conversation to be had in future. And just to conclude my questions, a brief question: if there are to be consequential amendments—and from your previous response, there may well be—will there be an impact on the Senedd's Standing Orders? Have you had a…
