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Plaid Cymru Debate: The Crown Estate
Don't you recognise that the Scottish Government undersold the rights on the energy projects on the shoreline by the tune of £60 billion over the lifetime of those rights? That's one very good reason not to devolve to the Welsh Assembly here, because you need…
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Questions to the First Minister
The mismanagement of the Welsh economy lies fairly and squarely in your ballpark, First Minister, for 25 years of inaction to improve the economic prospects of people in Wales. I appreciate you have an employment package available to create an extra 36 more…
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Questions to the First Minister
The question was based on evidence given at a public inquiry. It is perfectly reasonable for Members to come to this Chamber with information that is in the public domain and question the Government's response on it. Today, we've had the unemployment numbers…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. First Minister, last week the COVID inquiry heard from your good self and the then health Minister, now the economy Minister, on COVID preparedness. We heard from the Member for Cynon Valley that preparedness is a critical…
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Topical Questions
Could I agree with the sentiments that have just been conveyed about the need for the Wales-wide independent public inquiry? I appreciate the Labour benches have voted that down and we have to now move to the committee that's been set up here in the Senedd…
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Questions to the First Minister
I hear what you say about targets, Minister, and I can appreciate Ministers are very careful in the targets that they set, for obvious reasons, but one target that you have set for the Government, in the sustainable farming scheme, is the 10 per cent of…
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Questions to the First Minister
The really important thing is that the Government policy has a target to hit, and, as I've said, 75 per cent of the food that we could produce used to be produced in this country. We are now under 60 per cent. Will the Government adopt a target so that—. I…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Leader of the house, last week, the Agriculture (Wales) Bill was passed, and I commend you for that. There are areas that we disagree on in it, but bringing a piece of major legislation through is a big ask and it's now on the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Rural communities
—to trade our commodities.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Rural communities
We've seen a better place for us—
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Rural communities
I'm grateful to you for taking the intervention. Going back to your point about the so-called collapse in produce from Welsh farms, can you name me a better time to be selling lamb and beef over the last six years, where beef has been £5 a kilo, lamb is £7 a…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
Thank you, First Minister, for your statement this afternoon. It's easy to forget how significant this statement is because it's become a part of the regular calendar of the Welsh Parliament, but, as someone who came in in 2007, I can well remember your…
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Questions to the First Minister
We spend less in Wales per head of the population on health than any other part of the United Kingdom—England, Scotland or Northern Ireland. I used the figures about one-year waits and the elimination of two-year waits in England. You, on two questions…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I want to know what's going on here in Wales and what hope you're offering to people here in Wales. But if you want to use the English statistics, 5 per cent of people are waiting one year or more in England and 20 per cent of people on a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. In your earlier answers, First Minister, to questions, you seemed to blame all of the ills of Wales on the UK Government. One of the figures that came out last Thursday was quite clearly an area that you have complete control of…
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Topical Questions
I'm grateful to Jenny Rathbone for raising this important question, but I don't think, Minister, you touched on the nub of what Jenny pressed you over, which is what action the Welsh Government is taking to try and uncover the injustices that Welsh families…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, Deputy Minister, for that response. Do you recognise the genuine concerns that these businesses, 61 of them, have made to the Welsh Government over the complexity, the commercial disadvantage, and what they say and others have made representations…
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Topical Questions
1. What assessment has the Minister made of 61 drink retailers operating in Wales writing an open letter to the Welsh Government calling for the exclusion of glass from its deposit-return scheme in line with the rest of the UK? TQ800
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Joint item with the Welsh Youth Parliament
Thank you, Presiding Officer. There must be a reshuffle in the air or something, with the backbenchers clapping. [Laughter.] It's a real pleasure to be here for the second occasion that this current Youth Parliament has come together in the Oriel, in the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Sometimes, you do wonder whether you should be in the comedy hall rather than on the floor of the Welsh Parliament, First Minister. It is a fact that when you were special adviser to Rhodri Morgan, you set the target for lifting GVA to be at least the average…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, the UK economy was the fastest-growing economy for the last two years in the G7. Germany is in recession; despite all your backbenchers and your Government wishing this country to be in recession, this country is not in recession. Last week’s…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. With your permission, can I welcome the new leader of Plaid Cymru to his position, and wish him well—not too well—in that position? [Laughter.] I’m sure we will have some good debates and exchanges across the floor of the Welsh…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
I've raised the issue of Model Farm with various Ministers in the Senedd here. The quality of land being protected is a component of the planning system. I appreciate it's not in your portfolio, Minister, but, obviously, that assessment of the quality of the…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Minister, borrowing powers are a useful tool when deployed correctly to, obviously, improve infrastructure. In the Vale of Glamorgan, the village of Dinas Powys has had great difficulty with its transport infrastructure because of the main arterial route from…
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Statement by the First Minister: Raising Wales’s International Profile—An update on the Welsh Government’s international relations activity
I couldn’t put it better than what Mike Hedges has just put from the backbenches on your side. When it comes to inward investment, First Minister, it is vital that we secure a fair share of inward investment by being positive and promoting what’s good about…
