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Group 8: Requirement to promote public awareness of regulations under section 10A(1) (Amendment 8)
Thank you, Chair. I will speak to my amendment, and the only amendment, in this group. This amendment aims to increase transparency and public awareness of the impacts that the law that will become regulations will have before they come into force. A concern…
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Group 7: Interaction with the wider policy, legislative and strategic context (Amendments 6, 7)
Yes. Move.
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Group 7: Interaction with the wider policy, legislative and strategic context (Amendments 6, 7)
Thank you, Chair, and thank you for your response, Minister. Yet again, I struggle to see why the clarity and assurance that I feel my amendments bring to the table are so resoundingly rejected. However, again, I implore the Minister to nevertheless consider…
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Group 7: Interaction with the wider policy, legislative and strategic context (Amendments 6, 7)
Thank you, Chair, and the purpose of my amendments in this group is to ensure that any regulations made do not step on the toes of other bodies of legislation, an eventuality that could easily result in compromising the effectiveness of all involved…
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Group 6: Compliance with the public sector equality duty (Amendment 5)
Thank you, Chair, and just for clarity, the reason I tabled this amendment was to ensure the due diligence. And maybe duplication isn't always the worst thing in some cases, in the fact that we can consider these in a more rounded way and make sure that those…
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Group 6: Compliance with the public sector equality duty (Amendment 5)
Thanks, Chair. I will speak to my amendment—the only amendment in this group—amendment 5. With this amendment, I wish to ensure that Welsh Ministers must lay a statement before the Senedd to confirm they have complied with the public sector equality duty in…
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Group 5: Impact of regulatory alignment or divergence (Amendments 3, 24)
Move.
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Group 5: Impact of regulatory alignment or divergence (Amendments 3, 24)
—in order to put that in a real aspect for you to understand fully, with respect.
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Group 5: Impact of regulatory alignment or divergence (Amendments 3, 24)
—that's acceptable to table to the Government. So, that's why I used the position in committee—
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Group 5: Impact of regulatory alignment or divergence (Amendments 3, 24)
Obviously, I can't put those comments into an amendment—
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Group 5: Impact of regulatory alignment or divergence (Amendments 3, 24)
Thanks. I just want to expand, if I may, first, on amendment 3 on the cross-border working and some of the reasons why I tabled this amendment. Because, obviously, we look at the reality of health services, particularly in the eastern strip of Wales…
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Group 5: Impact of regulatory alignment or divergence (Amendments 3, 24)
Thank you, Chair. I will firstly speak to my amendment in this group, amendment 3. This amendment serves to guarantee that the continuity of effective cross-border health services is explicitly stated in relation to regulation under subsection (1). My reason…
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Group 4: Consultation regarding regulations under section 10A(1) of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006 (Amendments 11, 4, 23)
I will abstain, Chair.
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Group 4: Consultation regarding regulations under section 10A(1) of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006 (Amendments 11, 4, 23)
I'm happy for this to be discussed at the—
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Group 4: Consultation regarding regulations under section 10A(1) of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006 (Amendments 11, 4, 23)
There seems to be a little bit of room for manoeuvre there.
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Group 4: Consultation regarding regulations under section 10A(1) of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006 (Amendments 11, 4, 23)
If I may, Chair, I think there's an opportunity here to debate this further at Stage 3 in the process, to discuss this further and make further points around that. So, based on what I've heard from you, Minister, I'd be happy to take that to Stage 3, and…
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Group 4: Consultation regarding regulations under section 10A(1) of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006 (Amendments 11, 4, 23)
Thank you, Chair. Firstly, I'll speak to amendment 4, which I put forward. The amendment would require Welsh Ministers to carry out a public consultation allowing for a minimum of 12 weeks for people to make those representations on the draft, consider the…
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Group 3: Health service procurement principles and governance (Amendments 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25)
Right. I just want to say what I've said in evidence in the progress of this Bill, which is that, obviously, protecting the NHS—. The NHS itself is the public body, but the NHS don't make the drugs, they don't make the equipment, they don't make anything…
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Group 3: Health service procurement principles and governance (Amendments 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25)
Thanks. Yes. I just want to respond to some of Rhun's remarks around some of the expansion of the privatisation. I'm not sure, in all the evidence we've received in the progress to Stage 2, how that would've been advocated in any point of this procedure, nor…
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Group 2: Definition of goods or services connected to health services (Amendment 2)
Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Minister. Whilst I appreciate that this amendment was more technical in nature, it's still disappointing to know that this is not supported.
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Group 2: Definition of goods or services connected to health services (Amendment 2)
Thank you, Chair. I'll be speaking to the one amendment, which is amendment 2. This amendment is simply a technical amendment that I have tabled to make the provision more narrow in scope. It seeks to amend the existing line in the Bill from 'goods or other…
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Group 1: Procurement of social care services connected to health services as part of mixed procurements (Amendments 1, 9)
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Minister, for your response. I would like to voice my disappointment at the amendments not being supported, as we often talk about the integration of health and social care. With this being a new Bill, it's disappointing to…
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Group 1: Procurement of social care services connected to health services as part of mixed procurements (Amendments 1, 9)
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, everybody. I will be speaking to amendments 1 and 9. Firstly, I tabled amendment 1 to amend a provision under section 3(2). This amendment sees that 'including social care services' is added to the end of the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Blue carbon habitats
Okay. I'll leave it there, because I've run out of time. So, just to sum up, though, briefly: let's develop that national blue carbon recovery plan and work to expand Project Seagrass, bringing the benefits to all parts of Wales and especially the Vale of…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Blue carbon habitats
It's a pleasure to take part in this debate this afternoon. There are over 100 million tonnes of carbon stored in just the top 10 cm of marine sediments in Wales. That's nearly double the amount held in Welsh forests. So, we can say that when it comes to net…
