, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
But is that an opinion or is that fact? That's all I'm trying to ask.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
No, no, I'm just trying to be—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
And I just want to ask that question again, whether your assessment of the IFS's comments is based on opinion or whether it's based on a belief or knowledge that their comments have been incorrect—I said, 'Are the IFS lying?' I'm just trying to put it in…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
In terms of the policy differences, since you've entered the education department, is there any particular Welsh Government policy that you've been able to analyse and identify yourself in terms of those policy differences? Is there anything specific? I know…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
But are they, in that case?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
I'm just trying to be open—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
So, are the IFS lying, then, in that case?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Thank you very much, Chair. The Institute for Fiscal Studies—I'll put my teeth back in—in March said there are major challenges for education in Wales, and the IFS report also argued that lower educational performance in Wales than in the rest of the UK is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Thank you very much, Chair. Obviously, in your responses to Jack's questions, you were defending and promoting the fact of the universal approach to ALN, but then in response to my questions, you were alluding to more autonomy within the system. So, it seems…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
But they'll always go back to neutral, though, won't they, because it allows some autonomy, but what the system does, if you imagine it as a picture, you've got your central platform there, as the universal place where people can have autonomy in there, but…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
That's what I mean. I do understand.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
I do understand.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms: evidence session
Thank you, Chair. Obviously, the ambition is fantastic, and I congratulate you on your post as Cabinet Secretary for Education. Obviously, a lot of the ambitions you have that you seem to be alluding to seem to be on a universal basis, given that, obviously…
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Questions to the First Minister
No problem at all.
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much. Llannerch bridge was destroyed during storm Christoph in 2021, and, more than three years later, we are no closer to having the bridge replaced, unfortunately. The communities of Trefnant and Tremeirchion are still disconnected, with…
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Questions to the First Minister
2. Will the First Minister provide an update on the Llannerch bridge project between Trefnant and Tremeirchion? OQ61053
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
Absolutely. And it brings an integrity issue. It's a good point you raised, Tom. But I'll just go back to that principle of socialism that we hear about all too often from Labour Members and the Government: what does that give to equality, what does that give…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
Yes, I will. Yes.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
Thank you, Llywydd. Again, it's the Party of Wales who are talking about—
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
What sort of figures would you be talking about? Well, again, it's the—[Interruption.]
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
Well, it was, Janet, yes. It certainly was. But what message does that even give out to your voters that £200,000 can buy you a seat at the Cabinet table and the most influential, the most powerful job in the land? [Interruption.] Yes, certainly, yes.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
I originally wasn't going to speak, but I was strangely inspired to speak by the leader of Plaid Cymru's opening remarks, when he said that the average house price in Wales is £225,000. When you represent a constituency like the Vale of Clwyd, where I've got…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Cass review
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. I haven't got long, but I just want to thank the Minister for that statement that you've given to the Senedd this afternoon, but it's come as the result of an opposition debate to get a statement out of the Government on this important…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
With the issue of preventative health being raised, I would like to take the opportunity to raise the issue of bowel cancer prevention in Wales. Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second-biggest cancer killer in Wales. There has been good…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
Thank you very much. It's facing a £4.5 million reduction in its budget from the Welsh Government and its future is now in jeopardy. A priceless cultural icon of Wales that has enriched lives across generations is now facing public closure due to budget cuts…
