, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
I just wanted to say, however, that we had £11 million that was taken out of the universal free school meals budget in 2022-23 and £11.5 million in 2023-24, because of the shortfall in the uptake of free school meals. Could this not have been redirected to…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
Okay.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
Okay. We're going to come back, in the second section of our discussions around the co-operation agreement, on the take-up of free school meals in the primary sector. I just wanted to ask you about the free school breakfast pilot for year 7 children, which…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
Okay. And building on your remarks earlier about having warm hubs that are not stigmatising people—and I completely agree with that—how do we ensure that those who most need food are getting it without stigmatising people? For example, the Wales expert group…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
Indeed. But going back to the conversation we had earlier about people who are trying to get some electricity in order to be able to cook something, and then finding that they've just got to pay service charges before they can get anything, means that people…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
Thank you. First Minister, I want to move on to food in this depressing landscape. So, the Equality and Social Justice Committee did a report on unsustainable debt fuelled by the cost of living back in May. Clearly, the problems have got a lot more difficult…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
There's not a single beneficiary that I know of in Cardiff.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
How long have you known about ECO Flex, and why has it taken so long to get to the point where people actually are going to get some benefit from it?
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Warm and fed this winter
I just want to add to the complexity by asking how we maximise the take-up of money being offered by the UK Government, as well. We've had a little bit of a mention of ECO4, which is for anybody who has E or F-rated homes, on low incomes, obviously, and also…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Fuel poverty
So, we face what we thought was always going to be an even worse winter than last year. What can we do, for example, to encourage private landlords, who are not encumbered by mortgages, to do the right thing and make their properties more energy efficient…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you. That's really interesting, because we know that over 60 per cent of Dŵr Cymru's sewerage network is combined waste, so it includes rainwater, domestic sewage and industrial waste, including farm sewage. So, when all this raw sewage has to be…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
7. What support does Welsh Government provide farmers to convert animal waste to fertiliser? OQ60379
, Plenary
& 13. The general principles of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill
First of all, Presiding Officer, I need to declare that my partner is an adviser to Bute Energy. The climate emergency requires us to make prompt decisions about these important matters, and the DNS process is simply not delivering the renewable energy we…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: PISA Results 2022
Clearly, it doesn't matter how brilliant the teaching is; if the child's not in school they're not going to be learning. So, clearly, that's one of the really big issues that we all face. We can't roll back the clock on what we did during COVID, where we kept…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Foundational Economy
Thank you. Thank you for outlining the progress that's been made in transport, energy and housing, which is excellent, and lots of room for further developments there. I just want to ask you why in June the Cabinet did not commit to making any sort of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix) to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Therefore, under Standing Order 17.42, can I ask Members to agree to exclude the public for the remainder of today’s meeting?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
The committee will continue. Can I ask Members to note three items of correspondence relating to our current inquiries? Are Members content to note these three items?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much indeed for your attendance today. We’ll obviously send you a transcript of your evidence, and you will obviously have the opportunity to correct it if we’ve got that wrong. Thank you very much.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Minister, I just wanted to ask about one final thing that came up very powerfully in a previous evidence session, which is around the use of children as translators when people are accessing health services. You may or may not be able to give us a response…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
We'll stick with race equality for today. Sioned Williams, you wanted to come in.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Okay.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Fine. Written evidence will be fine. Okay. You wanted to add something very—.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Okay.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
—area, and so I wonder if you can just specifically say something about how you analyse data to work out what's the cause and what's the effect.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Can I just add in something specific? So, we know from the latest Equality and Human Rights Commission report that sexual assault is more likely in black or mixed ethnic groups, and that's highlighted. Is that because people feel more comfortable about…
