18 September 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
The Foundational Economy - Panel 1
Thank you. Could I just ask, then, in this 'I Can', what is it that they've changed to enable those from the neighbourhoods that you mention, and to increase their accessibility to these jobs within the NHS trust in Birmingham? What's changed directly? Is…
18 September 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
The Foundational Economy - Panel 1
Okay. That's helpful analysis. Thank you. Anne, any thoughts on this?
18 September 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
The Foundational Economy - Panel 1
That's interesting. Thank you. Harry, any thoughts on what Professor Williams has said there so far?
18 September 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
The Foundational Economy - Panel 1
So, you would say, then, less interventionist and more of a facilitating role—moving out of the way of those who actually know what's going on, and know what they're seeing on the ground, rather than being a direct interventionist Government involved in those.
18 September 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
The Foundational Economy - Panel 1
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Something that you mentioned earlier, Professor Williams, really resonated with me—we need to be more results orientated. One of the criticisms levied towards the Welsh Government is that they're a Government of announcements rather than…
17 September 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
The future of Tata and steel making in Wales has rightly been a topic discussed in this Chamber on many occasions, especially over the last few months, and the closure of the final blast furnace, the plans for a new electric arc furnace, and the impact on the…
17 September 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
Thank you, First Minister, for the statement.
17 September 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I ask for an urgent statement on bovine TB in Wales? The First Minister and Deputy First Minister attended the Pembrokeshire show this year, where the NFU Cymru highlighted that 40 per cent—40 per cent—of all cattle culled in Wales in the last…
6 August 2024 , Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Andrew R.T. Davies.
6 August 2024 , Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
As chair of the Welsh Conservative group, I'd like to nominate Andrew R.T. Davies.
17 July 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Farming
How can you put the cork back in the bottle, once it's popped? [Laughter.] Llywydd, all I would say is that agriculture and farming needs a friend. This place can be a friend to agriculture. I'm proud of our record on these benches. I'm proud that I was able…
17 July 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Farming
James Evans, in opening, talked about Welsh agriculture being the key pillar to our national prosperity—absolutely right—highlighting the cultural significance not just only of agriculture but of the Royal Welsh Show as well. Two hundred thousand visitors to…
17 July 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Farming
Best wishes and congratulations to you and the county too.
17 July 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Farming
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd, and I'd like to, firstly, start by thanking everybody who has contributed to this debate this afternoon. Llywydd, I am fizzing with excitement for next week. It is the Royal Welsh Show—my Glastonbury, as I like to call it. It is the…
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Topical Questions
Cabinet Secretary, I've listened closely to your answers to Luke Fletcher and to David Rees, and I'm seeing the reality here of the difference of having to govern—the UK Labour Government having to govern—and not now be in opposition. And I think, in coming…
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report, 'Six Nations Rugby Championship broadcasting rights'
Will the Minister take an intervention? So, just to confirm, you will be writing requesting that the Welsh six nations games do stay on free-to-air to the new respective Minister within the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report, 'Six Nations Rugby Championship broadcasting rights'
Thank you very much, Hefin, for taking that, and I appreciate your recommendation 3. I think it's a really valuable one, and it's a request to the UK Government. Did you in your deliberations within the committee, and forgive me for not knowing, look at other…
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report, 'Six Nations Rugby Championship broadcasting rights'
And special thanks, actually, to the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee—the longest committee title, I think, in the history of 25 years of devolution—for what is actually, looking at it, a simple prospect, a…
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report, 'Six Nations Rugby Championship broadcasting rights'
Thank you to you as committee Chair, Delyth, for bringing this issue to the Senedd today.
9 July 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I please call for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on the provision of adult day-care centres in Wales? The Pembrokeshire County Council-owned Anchorange day-care centre in Pembroke Dock has been a safe haven for…
2 July 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language: Tata Steel
We certainly welcome the de-escalation and the goodwill shown by both Tata Steel and the steelworkers' unions over the last few days, and we are thankful that Tata have decided not to close the second blast furnace early, following the news that Unite have…
2 July 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language: Tata Steel
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement.
2 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I recently had the pleasure of joining Stephen Crabb in meeting the Tenby chamber of trade, the newly re-established chamber of trade, in the fantastic Qube restaurant in the town. While they shared with us some of their concerns, one of the…
26 June 2024 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Community Energy Benefits bill
This really excites me, because renewable opportunities, especially in my part of the world, our part of the world in west Wales, in my constituency of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, excite not just myself but the community as a whole, because they…
26 June 2024 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Community Energy Benefits bill
Thank you, Adam, for bringing this debate forward today.
