5 November 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. You can't undo in 14 weeks the damage that was done in 14 years. Public services, we all agree, are the bedrock of our communities, and that's echoed in this Chamber by the request by both the Tories and Plaid to increase the spending…
5 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that answer, but last week scientists announced that over a third of the world's trees are facing extinction in the wild. That's truly alarming news, which could have far-reaching consequences in terms of biodiversity loss, not just for the tree…
5 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. What action is the Welsh Government taking to address the nature crisis? OQ61801
4 November 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 1 Report: Announcement of the Committee's approach to engagement and evidence gathering to identify any gaps
We have decided that we are going to hold a call to evidence for this committee by all those people who wish to take part in it. We will be opening a formal consultation, which will be open from 8 November—is that right?—until 6 January. Is that right? Yes…
4 November 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Papers to note
We have had a letter from the Petitions Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in relation to petition P-06-1450, 'Welsh Government to take action to protect people from airborne infections in health care settings', and I ask committee…
4 November 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon. We are now going to move into a public session—the very first public session—of the Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee. Following a meeting that we've just had, we have considered moving forward into agreeing a public meeting…
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
I'm going to ask also—. We've heard that a person's weight is influenced by multiple factors, and we also are hearing that there's an epidemic just round the corner as a consequence of that. So, what could Government do? What could they prioritise in the…
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
Thank you.
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
So, have you approached any of those supermarkets and asked them about their displays? Because I remember when you used to have stacks of chocolates and sweets at the tills, and they removed them. They only put them on the wall next to them, mind, but they…
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
I'm going to talk about the holistic and collaborative approach that you've kicked off with, quite clearly. And part of that is the responsibility of the food producers, recognising that they have a responsibility. So, the first and most obvious question is…
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Thank you.
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
There's a clear, established link between mental health and obesity, and I would argue that it comes from societal norms about comfort eating. We hear that phrase all the time. So, how do we address those, and is there enough of a focus on it?
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
I agree completely, and the point I would make is this: if you go into a hospital in Wales and you want to buy food for yourself because someone's in hospital, you're going to be met with Costa. So, you're going to have lots of cakes and lots of unhealthy…
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
I definitely think that intensive farming is to the detriment of the countryside because I've just stated it. So, I have no argument with you there. The other area I would like to move on to, which somebody briefly mentioned, and I think it might have been…
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
In a minute. I'm going on to the next round of farms, and those are council farms that particularly are in rural areas. I understand that they're under local authority control, but I do feel that the Welsh Government can and definitely should influence the…
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
We have to, of course, look at the fact that the first word in this is 'sustainable', and it has to be sustainable for everybody—those living off the land, obviously, and those who will be coming behind them. One area I think that really needs a focus is the…
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Just on the use of 'blanket', which we hear again. It sounds familiar, in another context. There have been many statements about the requirement for tree cover on farms over, probably, the last nine months or more. What is clear—and I don't want people…
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Will you take an intervention?
22 October 2024 , Plenary
& 9. The general principles of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
The first thing that I want to say is that the people who provide care for looked-after children give the majority of those children excellent service, and they go above and beyond to ensure that, whether they're working in the private or public sector. I…
22 October 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: Rail Collision on the Cambrian Line
Thank you very much, Minister, for your update. Of course, my thoughts, along with everybody else's, are with the family and the loved ones of the passenger who sadly lost his life, and also those who were injured and the others who were involved in this…
22 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for your answer, First Minister. There's plenty of research that shows that glyphosate is harmful to both human health and environment health as well, but it's still widely available for use by the general public in their gardens. Many local…
22 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
9. What steps is the Welsh Government taking to reduce its use of glyphosate-based weedkillers on Welsh Government-owned or managed land? OQ61745
3 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Natural Resources on topical issues
You say that—[Interruption.] We've got feedback here. You say that you're responding to 20 per cent of reported incidents. If you had more money, taking into account what you've just said, that you couldn't do every single one, but if you had more resource…
3 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Natural Resources on topical issues
How do you respond to Y Byd ar Bedwar participants' view that there is no point in reporting pollution incidents to you and that many responses are too late, and the programme's findings that NRW fail to respond to over half of reported incidents in a year?
3 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with Natural Resources Wales
We can go back to where we should have been.
