, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you for your question.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you. Too keen to speak. I think many of us, we're all very saddened and disappointed by the news that Chwarae Teg were unable to continue. Like you said, they've been a central part of the gender equality landscape for a significant period of time here…
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Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Yes, if I just pick up on the period dignity grant—absolutely, you know. They're often seen as a luxury item; I don't think they're a luxury item or a nice to have. They're clearly a necessity, and it's more important than ever, during a cost-of-living…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Shall I pick up on period dignity?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Yes. I'm on. Diolch. I think it's a really good question, because it links into the previous question to Jane around that gender lens when we're making decisions and making policy, and we know that, as you said, the cost-of-living crisis doesn't just…
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Topical Questions
Thank you to my colleague, friend, Carolyn Thomas, for sharing your reflections too. I think that just hits to the heart of the matter, doesn't it, that so many people thought it was just them and suffered in isolation, when actually it wasn't a problem with…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, Janet Finch-Saunders, for that really passionate and moving contribution. I think it demonstrates—. You talk about that people will have seen Alan Bates now through the drama, and it actually shows the power of drama to pursue a cause, where it…
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Topical Questions
Diolch, Jenny Rathbone. I think you're right in saying that this issue has very much been brought back to public notice by the ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office. I've been struck by so many people that have actually contacted me or just had a…
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Topical Questions
Diolch, Rhun ap Iorwerth, and if I touch on the point around Fujitsu first, it's scandalous the role that they played and they need to be held to account as well. I should say I don't have, obviously, at my fingertips the number of active contracts with Welsh…
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Topical Questions
I thank Joel James for his contribution on this important matter. And you rightly raise the impact the scandal has had on lives and, indeed, the absolute scale of it too, the scale of the horror and the devastation that that's caused, and the amount of years…
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Topical Questions
I thank Jack Sargeant for bringing this matter to the attention of the Senedd today, and I speak for many when I say I'm sure he is certainly not alone in his shock and in being sickened at the scale of injustice that we've seen. And too often the justice…
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Topical Questions
It is clear that this scandal has had a significant and devastating impact on the lives of all affected, which is why the Welsh Government has raised profound matters of concern relating to access to and miscarriage of justice issues in meetings with a…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Thank you, Joyce Watson. You make the point about how such reports and reviews make such difficult and distressing reading that it does then cast a shadow over the service as a whole. I hear your disappointment in the work that you've done, which I know…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Diolch, Delyth Jewell, for your contribution. I think I caught most of it, but my audio was going in and out, but hopefully I caught most of it. With respect to how we found out about that, and it is with great sadness, and again I absolutely pay tribute and…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Can I thank Vikki Howells for her question? I know that your commitment in this area is one that you are very—for want of a better word—committed to. Just on the point of diversity as well, I think that's a really important point. It's something that was…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Diolch, Sioned Williams, for your contribution and for the very many important points that you made during that contribution, which I wholeheartedly agree with, as you would anticipate. You raise a number of key concerns and key issues that this review has…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Can I thank Joel James for his contribution today? You shine a spotlight on many of the concerns raised through the report and the review, and also the recommendations for wider cultural and procedure and systematic change that Fenella Morris KC and the team…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Immediately following the ITV report, I met the chair of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Authority and made clear to him the need for a thorough independent review of the service. He agreed to do so, and Fenella Morris KC was subsequently appointed to lead…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values
Diolch, Llywydd. In December 2022, ITV News ran a story exposing serious misconduct by staff of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. It included a case of gross and prolonged sexual harassment by a firefighter towards a colleague at a fire station in…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
I know this is, like you say, something that you've raised previously in the Siambr but also in correspondence with myself, and I'll certainly pick up that last point you made in terms of the understaffing and the pressures in terms of covering streets that…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Thank you for your question, Heledd.
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Can I thank the Member for the Rhondda for raising this important point at a very pertinent time of year as well? I'm certainly very happy to join you, Buffy Williams, in thanking all postal workers in communities right across the country for everything that…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Whilst postal services remain a reserved matter, Welsh Government is in regular contact with Royal Mail, particularly regarding any issues affecting Wales. The company has said it is recruiting 500 seasonal workers in Wales to address additional demand over…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Yes, I absolutely agree with the Member for Mid and West Wales, Joyce Watson, that the real living wage is a baseline, not a benchmark, and it should be taken as part of a broader package that supports fair work in workplaces across Wales, whether that's…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
I was pleased to be part of the Wales launch for Living Wage Week on 6 November. As part of the week, the Welsh Government engaged in a number of events and communications. But our support for the real living wage is a year-round commitment, and we work with…
