, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': evidence session 1
But the leadership needs to be there at board level and in terms of the people who are running the particular services. It shouldn't just be reliant on people who happen to come from the global majority.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': evidence session 1
Ceri, can I just ask you to come in at this point, because you're obviously here to represent the front line in health boards? I was concerned to read about the level of bullying in the health service—which is a worry regardless of your ethnicity—and the fact…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': evidence session 1
That's a very fair point. Clearly, there are huge challenges for all public services at the moment. There's a historic underfunding that's been present for some years, and, in addition to that, all the issues around COVID. But nevertheless, given the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': evidence session 1
Today, we're starting our inquiry into the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan', and the first of two sessions this afternoon is on health and social care. I'm delighted to welcome Ceri Harris, who's head of equality at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, but…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We have all Members present today, so I have no apologies. I just wanted to ask Members if they've got any declarations of interest in relation to the subjects we're discussing. Thank you very…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The 20 mph Speed Limit: Scrutiny session with the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
But if they're doing 40 mph in what was a previous 30 mph, surely we should be fining them now.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The 20 mph Speed Limit: Scrutiny session with the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
I want to talk about enforcement, because I've had several constituents contacting me who follow a pattern. These are people who are careful drivers, who've always adhered to speed limits and have known through the 40 or 50 years they've been driving what 30…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The 20 mph Speed Limit: Scrutiny session with the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
Yes. The pilots were deliberately trying to test different methodologies, different ways of doing things. How much do you think the disagreement over this has been pushed by particular pilots that people didn't like? For example, the one in Buckley, in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Can we try and—?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Okay, but at the moment there's no possibility of getting that at the moment—is that right?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
The key issue here is around legally binding emission reductions for the five air pollutants. What exactly is stopping Wales from embracing that in its entirety in our air quality and soundscapes Bill?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
[Inaudible.]—leaseholders as well as owner occupiers?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
[Inaudible.]—able to pay loans also apply to leaseholders who, obviously, may be living in an area where there's also social homes, so that they can also make a contribution to decarbonising their home?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Okay. I want to just come back, lastly, to the 40 per cent of houses that are owned outright, either by the people who live in them or by private landlords who rent them out. So, clearly, they are able to pay for new technologies, and the new technologies are…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
We have to be driven by the numbers of households who simply are unable to afford to heat their homes. In light of that, could you just tell us how the work of the residential decarbonisation implementation group, and the heat strategy—how all these knit…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Yes. Okay. I just want to pick up on the climate change committee's assertion that retrofitting social housing stock to EPC A rating is 'costly and unlikely to be a cost-optimal approach to decarbonising homes', which obviously goes against the very ambitious…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
We might have a look at that in relation to the environment Bill that's currently going through the Senedd at the moment.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Okay. Well, that's good. Thank you for that information, because it seems to me we don't have many sticks here, and that's at least something for tenants who are currently living in homes that they can't afford to heat. Moving on, I wondered whether you've…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Okay. I don't mean the exact number, but is it in the hundreds or the thousands?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
I appreciate you need the carrot and the stick. How many landlords have taken up the opportunity of the leasing scheme?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
[Inaudible.]—change of Government after the next general election, have you any idea how quickly a Government that was more concerned about the climate emergency would be able to implement regulations, were they to be ambitious?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Thank you very much. Starting with the UK Prime Minister's announcement that he was tearing up the cross-party consensus on decarbonisation, where does this leave us with private landlords, which is where the concentration of very, very cold homes are, in…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
Do you recognise, though, that this is not a problem in the emergency departments? This is a whole-system approach, both for ensuring that primary care stays in primary care and that the whole hospital takes ownership of who should be in the hospital and who…
