, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
I've been informed of constituents' concerns in relation to the communication process for parents and young people who wish to share information with the north Wales safeguarding board as part of the child practice review that you've just mentioned, following…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
2. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the Government's response following the conviction of Neil Foden? OQ61812
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with sports representatives (9)
Following on from that point, of course, is there specific work being done to work against the effect of the reductions in funding on people in specific groups, including people of a lower socioeconomic status, for example? You've mentioned that a little bit…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with sports representatives (9)
[Inaudible.]—on that point, to be honest. Can you hear me now?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with sports representatives (9)
I was talking more, actually, about collaboration in terms of the finance—the financial aspects. It's great to hear that there's collaboration going on around swimming, and it's concerning to hear about the coastal areas, but, of course, they are large rural…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with sports representatives (9)
Thank you very much. It’s very concerning to hear some of your comments this morning about the impact of the cuts, and the fact that half the children of Wales don’t receive swimming lessons has struck me as a shocking point and a very serious situation…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
I'll start again. I was talking about the preventative agenda, and part of that is inclusion, because that social inclusion can prevent problems for some of the most vulnerable groups and people in disadvantaged communities. Is participation more or less…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
Thank you very much. How do funding reductions impact on the ability of culture and sports to contribute across the various policy areas? How does that reduction in funding mean that you can't, perhaps, contribute to the preventative agenda in the way that…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
If you have any specific data, they would be very useful, or if any of the other witnesses do—.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
Thank you very much. What's the situation with audiences for cultural events? There was a huge decrease during the lockdowns, of course, and that's been slow in being restored, as far as I understand it. So, where are we with audience levels as compared to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
Yes, just following on from that point, could the answer be to acknowledge the important role of culture and sport in the preventative agenda and then, as a result, make those services statutory services?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Yes. Just to declare that a member of my family works in the culture department at Cyngor Gwynedd.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The housing crisis is impacting every part of Wales. Homelessness and sleeping rough are the increasing and very visible results of this crisis. The number of rough-sleepers who have died has doubled over the past few years, which is appalling and…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. What is the First Minister doing to ensure that the Welsh Government is giving priority to resolving the housing crisis in Gwynedd? OQ61732
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I'm sure it was. There are other examples.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
But you will probably understand the frustration felt by communities that are today trying to acquire assets, for example Coed y Brenin, which is an asset that the community would wish to acquire, but, because the legislation doesn't enable them to have the…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Is the task and finish group going to be looking specifically on legislative changes that need to be made in Wales, so that we align better with what happens in England? Is that going to be a specific piece of work that this group is going to be doing now?…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
So, you'd started along the path of establishing a commission, and that was progressing very slowly, and then, all of a sudden, it was decided to take away that status of a commission from that work stream, and to set up a task and finish group that is far…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
There is no commission now looking at the issue of community assets, as I understand, which is a decision that strikes me as being very strange, because the members of the commission were announced just a few weeks ago. I've been asking written questions…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you very much. Turning to community assets, I understand that there is now no commission looking at the issue of community assets, although the names of the members of the commission were announced just a few weeks ago. What exactly is the reason for…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Could you share the details of the route-map for decarbonising residential housing, and when is it likely to be published?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
So, it looks likely that landlords in the private rented sector will have to conform with those regulations too, because, although housing is devolved, that aspect hasn't, perhaps, been devolved. Is that the situation?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I know that the work is happening in the social housing sector, but what will be happening to private rented properties in terms of the EPC standards that are required?
