, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Progress on the rollout of curriculum reform and next steps
On the workforce, can I ask where and how what you are outlining today overlaps with your strategy on recruitment and retention? The teaching unions have stressed to me the impact of the new curriculum roll-out on an already overstretched and under-resourced…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Progress on the rollout of curriculum reform and next steps
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement today. Certainly, there is widespread support in the education sector for the main principles of the new curriculum, and that includes clear support from Plaid Cymru. And, in that sense, we're very eager to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Diolch. I think it's generally agreed that this Labour Welsh Government's record on tackling child poverty is a poor one. Indeed, my colleague Sioned Williams has reminded us already today of your Government's systematic failure to get to grips with this…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
5. What is the Welsh Government doing to combat child poverty? OQ61302
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. A few months ago, I was in a meeting in the Llanboidy area in Carmarthenshire to discuss a farm that had been purchased by a company to plant trees, and the local community were concerned about the impact the development would…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Will the Welsh Government amend its planning rules to ensure that rural communities have more of a voice in terms of the decisions that impact them?
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
7. How is the Welsh Government working to deliver an approach to afforestation that works with and for local communities? OQ61288
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
Cabinet Secretary, it's been five months now since the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales published its final report, and it's been more than three months since the Welsh Government published its response to the commission's report…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
8. How is the Welsh Government implementing the recommendations of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales? OQ61268
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme
I'm looking forward to the analysis as well, because it will have to be more qualitative than quantitative, and that is always more complex. This is my final question, if I may, Cadeirydd. Again, one of the criticisms of the consultation paper was that it…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Just to finish my line of questioning around the payment methodology, you alluded to the fact that the income forgone and costs incurred methodology was maybe a little too narrow, which was the initial proposal in the SFS, and I welcome…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme
Okay. Thank you. A final question on this particular topic. One of the things that concerned farmers a great deal during the consultation was that, if they were expected to reach targets in terms of tree planting or biodiversity, there should be some kind of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme
May I just follow on from that point? The year's delay, of course, means that you can assess and plan in a more considered way, but also we're losing a year of opportunities, perhaps, for farmers to deliver on some environmental schemes. So, is there funding…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial scrutiny - Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Just very, very quickly. I'm just interested in the question that Sam asked about the role of the technical advisory group. They are eminent people and they will look at the science. They will be driven by the evidence that science provides. Now, this is an…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial scrutiny - Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. Diolch. Sorry.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial scrutiny - Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes. My apologies, Chair. Just going back to agricultural pollution, I had in mind to ask you, when you were talking about appointing a chair for this group that would review the regulations, when are we expecting an announcement on the chair and the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial scrutiny - Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial scrutiny - Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch. I suppose I should declare an interest because, in my previous role as a designated member, I worked closely with Huw's predecessor, and very briefly with Huw, on two aspects of this report, which are agricultural pollution, and I'm hoping to achieve…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 8 - Trade Unions
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 8 - Trade Unions
My last question is particularly to Prospect: last year, you published a report on delivering good clean energy jobs. How could the Welsh Government contribute to achieving the five goals you set out in that report?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 8 - Trade Unions
Diolch. Jane, do you have anything to add?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 8 - Trade Unions
Thank you. The next question is in Welsh. In order to make that shift towards additional greener jobs, what could the Welsh Government do as part of that process to meet fair work commitments?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 8 - Trade Unions
You mentioned the coal-mining communities earlier on. I grew up in a coal-mining community and I experienced the devastating effect that that had on my community, because there was no just transition. It's taken years, generations, for that community to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Green Economy inquiry - Panel 8 - Trade Unions
It's okay.
