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Papers to note
Thank you very much indeed. There's a letter from the Permanent Secretary regarding the tailored review programme. He responded to our letter dated 9 January, which noted concerns regarding the considerable delay in finalising the programme of the tailored…
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Papers to note
We have some papers to note. Members will note letters from the Minister for Finance and Local Government further to recent questions raised by both this committee and the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee on the supplementary legislative…
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Bore da a chroeso. Good morning and welcome to today's meeting of the Senedd Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee. No apologies for absence have been received. I understand that that's still the case. Thank you very much indeed. Do Members have…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Invasion of Ukraine and supporting Ukrainian refugees
The UK will deliver £2.3 billion or more of military support for Ukraine’s campaign against Russian aggression this year, the same or more than last year, when the UK sent more than 10,800 anti-tank missiles, five air defence systems, 120 armoured vehicles…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Invasion of Ukraine and supporting Ukrainian refugees
According to the latest estimates from Norway, the conflict has wounded or killed 180,000 Russian soldiers and 100,000 Ukrainian troops. Other western sources estimate that the war has caused 150,000 casualties on each side. In late January, the United…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Invasion of Ukraine and supporting Ukrainian refugees
Diolch. I'm pleased to move this motion. The twenty-fourth of February 2023 marks the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin's illegal and barbaric invasion of its smaller sovereign neighbour, Ukraine. But this smaller neighbour has the heart of a lion and has…
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2023-24
Do you accept—and this is a fact—that the police cuts you're referring to that were initially to 2015 were announced in Alistair Darling's last budget in 2010, and simply carried forward in terms of policing by the UK Government? It is evident in the final…
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2023-24
In a minute, then.
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2023-24
Will you give way?
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2023-24
As we've heard, funding for the four Welsh police forces is delivered through a three-way arrangement involving the Home Office, Welsh Government and council tax, with the Home Office operating a needs-based formula with a floor mechanism to distribute…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Ukraine Humanitarian Response
As you reflected, 24 February marks a year since Putin's illegal and barbaric invasion of Ukraine. In your update on Ukraine here three weeks ago, you stated that: 'The UK Government has announced that there will be a new UK £150 million fund for Ukrainian…
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Questions to the First Minister
In order to protect residents in Alyn and Deeside, elsewhere in north Wales and across Wales from falling into fuel poverty, the Welsh Government have said that a new national demand-led energy efficiency grant scheme, focused on homes in fuel poverty, will…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Income tax devolution
I think 92 per cent of taxpayers in Wales are basic rate taxpayers. Only 0.3 per cent, barely 4,000, are additional rate taxpayers. Do you recognise that higher tax rates, particularly in those sorts of circumstances, can generate lower tax revenues?
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Topical Questions
Last month, prior to your 31 January and 2 February letters to the UK Government and before The Times investigation revealed British Gas routinely sending debt collectors to break into customers' homes and force-fit prepayment meters, even when they're known…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you. I'm still contacted regularly by parents of pupils with diagnosed or suspected neurodiverse conditions, many of whom have diagnosed neurodiverse conditions themselves and most of whom live in Flintshire. In recent months alone, e-mails received…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
8. How is the Welsh Government supporting neurodiverse pupils? OQ59072
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Do you share my concern that cuts or freezes in the housing support grant have been offered almost as a sacrificial offering in almost every Welsh Government draft budget for at least the last decade, despite the consequences of increased pressure on the NHS…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Will you give way?
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Business Statement and Announcement
They're calling on the Welsh Government to implement a Wales-wide workforce strategy to recruit specialist staff to meet the additional learning needs of deaf children, provide funding to ensure there is sufficient training provision to create a new…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I call for two oral statements or debates in Welsh Government time on two important matters. The first of these is on accessible communication and information for people with a sensory loss. Public services have legal duties under section 20 of the Equality…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:
Well, the remainder of the meeting and the meeting on 8 February 2023 are proposed to be held in private. So, I move a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from this meeting and the meeting on 8 February accordingly. Do Members…
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Welsh Government Workforce Planning: Evidence session (part 2)
Thank you. Well, I therefore thank Andrew Goodall, Sally-Ann Efstathiou, Tim Moss and Peter Kennedy for being with us today and answering our questions. A transcript of today's meeting will be published as normal in draft form and sent to you, and you may…
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Welsh Government Workforce Planning: Evidence session (part 2)
Thank you. Before I conclude, could I just ask our witnesses: do you have any final points you want to raise that haven't already been covered?
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Welsh Government Workforce Planning: Evidence session (part 2)
Rhianon Passmore.
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Welsh Government Workforce Planning: Evidence session (part 2)
Okay. Well, that brings the formal questions in this session to an end. Members—. Yes, Natasha. I was going to say, 'Do Members have any final questions?', Natasha does.
