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Llywydd, all of those are really important points that Peter Fox makes, and I know that he will speak from experience of having had to negotiate these agreements. He's right—there are many responsible building companies out there, with Tirion I referred to in…
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Llywydd, I'm very proud of the Mill site; I've visited it many times. It will create 800 new homes in the centre of Cardiff on a brownfield site. It's a tribute in many ways to our former colleague Edwina Hart, who managed to bring about an innovative…
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Thank you to Rhys ab Owen for that supplementary.
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Llywydd, our programme for government includes a commitment to reform the way in which estate charges are levied for public open spaces and facilities. Current arrangements are over complex and too often unfair. We will bring forward proposals for reform, for…
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Good afternoon to the Member.
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I referred in my original answer to the fact that Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has been reviewing the way in which its structure of hospital services, and not just hospital services, is currently configured. I don't agree with the point the Member…
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I thank the Member for that. The Grange University Hospital opened in 2020, on budget and ahead of schedule. As we emerge from the pandemic, the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has reviewed its clinical model to ensure optimum delivery of care across…
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I thank Mike Hedges very much. The picture, I think, is a mixed one, isn't it? Many things have changed over the period since the second world war. Some of those things make loneliness and isolation more difficult, some things have eroded those factors as…
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Our strategy for tackling loneliness and social isolation, published in September last year, has been implemented through a £1.5 million fund delivering a wide range of local and innovative support. We will publish the first review of the strategy later this…
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Thank you very much to Jane Dodds. We provide support to local authorities in a number of ways. We have provided more funding to them during the pandemic to help them to cope with that situation. I referred in my original answer to Sam Kurtz to the new…
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I thank Sam Kurtz for that important supplementary question. Victoria Climbié was just itself one more in a long line of significant child protection investigations. The foundational one in modern times was into the death of Maria Colwell back in 1974, and…
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I thank the Member for that question. The Welsh Government works closely with all regional safeguarding boards and local authorities to strengthen and improve safeguarding practice across Wales. New all-Wales safeguarding procedures have been developed with…
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Llywydd, I thank Hefin David for that and acknowledge the consistent interest that he's taken in making sure that public transport links to the Grange hospital are as good as they can be, and I'm very pleased to say to him that we're in the final stages of…
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I thank Hefin David for that, Llywydd. On Friday last week, the Welsh Government announced a further £50 million investment in active travel measures across Wales. All local authorities, including Caerphilly, will receive a minimum allocation of £500,000, and…
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Well, Llywydd, can I begin by agreeing with what Adam Price has said about Jake Daniels? It's taken a 17-year-old to come forward in that way, and what a lesson that is for others who are older than that very courageous young man, and let's hope that his…
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Well, Llywydd, following the annual event in which the real living wage calculation is announced for the following financial year, I wrote to the leaders of all public sector bodies in Wales, urging them to come forward as real living wage employers. Now, the…
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Well, Llywydd, the last time I had a discussion with any UK Minister about civil service jobs, it was to hear that Minister trumpet the intentions of the UK Government to disperse civil service jobs around the country, and to bring more employment to Wales…
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Well, Llywydd, the Welsh Government's record of payment of BPS is, as the leader of the opposition will know, the best in the United Kingdom and has been for many years, and certainly a great deal better than it is across our border. We continue to have…
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Well, just to reiterate what I said, Llywydd, because I don't want to have what I said last time either misunderstood or misrepresented, the point that was being put to me before was about a shortage of food being supplied through the shops to Welsh citizens…
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Well, I think the leader of the opposition misunderstands what the Bank of England governor had to say. What he was referring to was the rise in the cost of food because of events in Ukraine and, as he said very clearly to the committee, because of Brexit…
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Llywydd, thank you. The Member made a number of important points before he went off the rails into cheap-shot politics, which is of course far too often the distinguishing characteristic of his party. When he was making sensible points, he referred to the…
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Well, Llywydd—[Interruption.]
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Health services in Brecon and Radnor are the responsibility of Powys Teaching Local Health Board. The board continues to invest in capital improvements that produce advances in service efficiency as it restores essential and key services alongside the…
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Llywydd, can I thank Buffy Williams for those points? And she's right, of course, that we need to make sure that households in Wales are as aware of the help as possible. And we're doing that in a number of ways, working closely with our local authority…
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I thank Russell George for drawing my attention to that issue. He will know that the winter fuel support scheme was put together very rapidly in order to make sure that we got as much help as possible into the hands of households who very badly needed that…
