Lesley Griffiths

12 November 2024, Plenary

Debate: Remembrance

It was truly humbling and a huge privilege for me to participate, as I do every year, in a number of Remembrance Week events in my home city and constituency of Wrexham, and it was good to have you, Cabinet Secretary, alongside me and other colleagues laying…

3 October 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Thank you.

3 October 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Could I just ask one final question, please, Chair? There used to be a Gypsy and Traveller forum the Welsh Government had that liaised with local authorities. Are there any plans to reinstate that?

3 October 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Thank you. Can I just pick up on the progress? As you said, much-needed progress has been made; you've now got all the 22 local authority assessments. Obviously, that took a couple of years longer than should have happened under the 2014 legislation…

3 October 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Thanks very much for that. I'll come back to what you said about progress, because I do think that's a very important point, but we've just been listening to evidence from the local authorities. I'm not going to name names, but I think in the main they would…

3 October 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Thanks very much, Chair. Good afternoon, everyone. To start with, Cabinet Secretary, I'd like to ask your view on how you think the Gypsy and Traveller accommodation assessment framework is operating. Obviously, it's a very rigid five-year time frame, and I…