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Life Sciences Investment Fund
Thank you. Mr Thorley.
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Life Sciences Investment Fund
Okay. Mr Hamer.
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Life Sciences Investment Fund
Bore da a chroeso. Good morning and welcome back to viewers to the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd, and welcome to the participants who have joined the meeting. I'd be grateful if you could begin by stating your names and…
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Papers to Note
Well, absolutely. Again, as you are aware, we're collectively keen to ensure that, which is why we made this joint approach so that we don't replicate by working together, and they're focused on their remit, particularly clinical issues, and ours on the…
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Papers to Note
Thank you. The second item is a letter from the chair of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, again to me as Chair of this committee, and to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. The chair of the health board replied to the joint letter the…
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Papers to Note
Thank you. We had a brief discussion before we went into session about this, and there was complete consensus that we must remain entirely within the remit of this committee, and make all parties fully aware of that. We're not here to make judgments about…
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Papers to Note
We have two papers to note at the beginning of the meeting. The first is a letter from the Stop Gilestone Farm Project to the Chair of this committee, i.e. me. The committee was sent an open letter on behalf of the Stop Gilestone Farm Project, addressed to me…
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good morning, and welcome. Bore da. Croeso to this meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd. No apologies for absence have been received. Do Members have any declarable matters of interest that they wish to share with…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Community assets
I was referring to public officials—those charged in bodies across Wales with delivering on the legislation, which the Welsh Government itself has passed.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Community assets
I would have done. I'm sorry.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Community assets
I move accordingly.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Community assets
Diolch. As our motion states, community assets act as local hubs and provide important access to information, services, skills and social experiences. We therefore ask this Senedd to recognise that community assets improve community cohesion and allow local…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Despite the High Court ruling in 2018 that the exclusion of an autistic pupil for behaviour arising from their autism was unlawful, I continue to receive north Wales casework where this is happening. On related issues, a Flintshire parent wrote this month…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
5. What action is the Welsh Government taking to prevent discrimination against autistic pupils in education settings? OQ59955
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. Well, the Welsh Government has stated previously both that local authorities have the discretion to change the 20 mph limit and that, in Spain, where they have 20 mph as their default position, urban deaths and road accidents have fallen by 20 per…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
1. What policy analysis did the Welsh Government undertake before implementing the 20 mph speed limits? OQ59961
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Cost of Living
Thank you for that. The global impact of the pandemic, followed by Putin's war in Ukraine, saw inflation rise, and this is a tax on people's income, causing pressures on household budgets, and must be tackled. When domestic inflation let rip in the 1970s it…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
RNIB Cymru’s report 'Make it Make Sense. Inaccessible information: a health inequality' highlights the issue of inaccessible patient communications putting patients with sight loss at risk. The report states that 'Improvements to patient communication could…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
8. What is the Welsh Government doing to ensure all GP surgeries are able to access, and are using, the NHS Wales app? OQ59904
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Update on a Nation of Sanctuary
[Inaudible.]—'sanctuary' applies to how people are treated when they come here, where, as we heard, immigration policy is restricted to the UK Government. Although the Illegal Migration Act 2023 places a duty on the Secretary of State to make arrangements as…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the remainder of today's meeting
And Members, I propose that in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today's meeting. Are all Members present content? Thank you. Therefore, I'd be grateful, clerking team, if you could take…
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Maximising EU Funding - Evidence Session with Welsh Government
Okay, thank you. Well, as I say, there are a number of items we didn't have time to cover, which we will write to you about. I’d be grateful if you are able to provide a written response to those. So, it just falls to me to close this session by thanking you…
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Maximising EU Funding - Evidence Session with Welsh Government
Well, okay, thank you. Well, the final set of questions that were for me are quite extensive. There won't be time to cover them all, so we will write to you with most of them. I'll just throw a couple out at you only, just to get a taster, but these relate to…
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Maximising EU Funding - Evidence Session with Welsh Government
Carry on, please.
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Maximising EU Funding - Evidence Session with Welsh Government
Okay, thank you. I'm conscious we're over time. I don't know how quickly you have to run off. Hopefully, you'll be agreeable to our writing to you with any questions we haven't had chance to get to yet. I'm just wondering—. Natasha, you have the next section…
