, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
But 'a sense of direction' implies more than one year.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
But this is the point that Heledd and I are trying to make to you, Minister: it is not true that the Welsh Government has protected culture and arts spending over a number of years—that simply isn't the case. You only need to look at the international…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
But I want to know how far this direction goes.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Diolch. I was interested in your response, Minister: you said this was a step in a different direction, if you like—a step in the right direction—and that implies, of course, that it's the beginning of a journey, not the end. That implies to me that the Welsh…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
On that, I think it would be an idea for us to ask you to come back to the committee sometime to think about Welsh-speaking communities, and look at the evidence that we've had in the reports. I'd like to have a session on Arfor too, to look at the impact of…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I welcome that. I welcome that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Digon teg. Ym mhwyllgor y Bil, roeddwn i'n meddwl cawsom ni drafodaeth bwysig iawn, fel mae’n digwydd, ac yn dda iawn. Roeddwn i wedi mwynhau’r broses Cyfnod 1 a bod yn aelod o’r pwyllgor a oedd yn gwneud hynny. Y drafodaeth oedd am y gweithlu. Dyna beth oedd…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Dyna byrdwn y cwestiwn, wrth gwrs.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Bydd hynny, siŵr o fod, yn sicrhau eich bod chi'n penderfynu, 'Reit, mae'n rhaid inni newid pwyslais mewn ffyrdd gwahanol.' Ond dwi eisiau teimlo bod gyda chi'r gyllideb i fod yn hyblyg. Dwi'n derbyn beth rydych chi'n ei ddweud, Weinidog, pan fo'n dod i'r…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Ac mi fydd yr ymchwil yna, wrth gwrs, yn arwain at, efallai, newid polisi.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I'm very pleased to hear that. I'm pleased that they're talking to each other.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you. I want to ask about the target of Cymraeg 2050. I don't want to embarrass him, but I welcome the appointment of Jeremy as head of the project. I think that's an important thing as a way of bringing everything together, so I welcome that. Is there…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I'm interested in this, partly because there's a new school in Tredegar being built at the moment. My concern is that we're providing this opportunity for these children in Sirhowy to go to a Welsh-medium school and to be educated through the medium of Welsh…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
No. I was pleased to hear the evidence from the Minister. I think seeing how people come into our communities and learn and use the Welsh language is something to be welcomed.
, Plenary
Short Debate: The Heads of the Valleys road: Investing in our future economy
Will you take an intervention on that point, Cabinet Secretary? I'm grateful to you for that, and I'm grateful to you for your generous remarks earlier. If Cabinet Secretaries are meeting to debate and discuss these matters, it would be useful if the Members…
, Plenary
Short Debate: The Heads of the Valleys road: Investing in our future economy
But now is a time to look ahead, and the purpose of this debate this afternoon is to call on the Welsh Government to deliver an industrial strategy for the Heads of the Valleys that will maximise the impact of this investment. In Blaenau Gwent, we have seen…
, Plenary
Short Debate: The Heads of the Valleys road: Investing in our future economy
Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I'm grateful to you for the opportunity to speak on this matter this evening. The current sections that have been completed on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road certainly run through the Heads of the Valleys, but in…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Cabinet Secretary, I am delighted to hear that it is a priority for this Government, because there's a crisis in Blaenau Gwent and other parts of the Aneurin Bevan health board area. There is a crisis of access to basic GP services, created by eHarleyStreet…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
1. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the provision of GP services in Blaenau Gwent? OQ62094
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
The Minister will be aware that the Halton group has recently invested in Rhyd y Blew in Ebbw Vale, opening a new facility there, investing in Blaenau Gwent, because of the investments made, of course, by the Welsh Government both in terms of infrastructure…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I've got no notice of this Chairs' forum. Obviously I'm not a part of it. I have no input into it and, I think, no report from it apart from this note telling us what has already been decided. I think it's the wrong decision. I don't think this is the way…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I agree.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I disagree with this. I think it's a stupid decision, frankly—an absolutely stupid decision. It's not surprising that the Chairs' forum decides a Chair should represent the Senedd—that's pretty unsurprising—but the fact that we don't have a representative…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Yes.
, 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’m grateful to the Minister for being as open and as generous as that in her evidence, and certainly that’s something I very much welcome myself. I have no further questions on these matters.
