, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. While the required ranges of the amount of Welsh language education schools must provide, in accordance with their category, will be set out in regulations, as you mentioned, a minimum is stipulated on the face of the Bill for one of the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
So, to that end, you mention the only figure in the Bill is the 10 per cent, why are you doing away with the sub-category of designated Welsh-medium schools, where the figure is 90 per cent in Welsh?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
How do you respond then to those who say that the 'primarily Welsh language school' category in the Bill is too broad and doesn't distinguish between schools who provide slightly more than half in Welsh and those whose provision is almost all in Welsh?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Because some of the evidence we've also heard suggests that the Bill focuses too much on what we would currently call English-medium schools and not enough on what we would currently call Welsh-medium schools, and I think it ties back to the question Heledd…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
I only said thank you. [Laughter.] The Bill, Minister, describes 'Welsh language education' as to include both Welsh-medium provision and the teaching of Welsh as a subject, but some of the evidence that we have heard suggests it changes the long-standing…
, Plenary
Short Debate: The Welsh Economy: Structural problems and putting them right
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to Mike for bringing this debate to the floor of the Senedd on the structural issues in the Welsh economy, and for his usual unvarnished assessment, I think, of the economy here in Wales. I just wanted to use…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I think Cefin is right: you did give false hope to universities and other institutions across Wales with your statement last week. Within about 24 hours, a fund 'to support our institutions here in Wales, and I'm pleased to say it's going to be a more…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Organisations in the cultural sector have been warning for some time about the dire financial situation that they find themselves in. And that goes for the big national institutions as well as smaller local institutions, which many communities not only are a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Thank you very much. I had a feeling you might say that you didn’t want to the look to the past but to the future. So, last year, the culture line in the Welsh Government’s budget suffered the biggest cut of any individual budget line. So, if this is a break…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Minister, can I congratulate you on your appointment to the role as Minister, with responsibility particularly today for culture and for sport? I've been looking forward very much to these exchanges—I know you have as well—and…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, last week we heard the chief executive of the books council describe the existential crisis faced by publishers across Wales. We also know the books council has not received any additional in-year money in this financial year from the Welsh…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
I'm sure the committee will be happy for you to write to us and to take that as written evidence, if we haven't got time for it now.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Thank you very much, and a very broad final question from me: do you have any other comments about Part 3 of the Bill, which makes provision in respect of Welsh language education in schools?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Sorry, I couldn't hear that, but I'm assuming that was a 'no'.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay. Do you have any other comments about Part 3 of the Bill, which makes provision in respect of Welsh language education in schools?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Would that solve the problem, because, obviously, you mentioned it's very complicated and, obviously, adding this bit to the explanatory memorandum—does that solve the issue?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Diolch yn fawr. You say the Bill should reflect that school sixth forms come under the tertiary education sector, your remit, and therefore schools will need to account for that when they prepare their Welsh language education delivery plans, and, obviously…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Teaching of reading skills in schools
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that reading in Wales is in a moment of crisis—20 per cent of young people leaving our schools functionally illiterate is something that should keep us all up at night, quite frankly, and…
, Plenary
Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Implementation of education reforms: Interim report'
Can I thank the committee, which I've just joined, but I know that the majority of the report was done before I joined, by colleagues such as Laura Anne Jones and others? Can I start by saying how nice it is to be on the committee and to have caught the tail…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Two colleagues now have asked you when the Welsh Government first became aware, and in the second answer I heard it was only six days ago, on 10 October, that there was a problem at the Princess of Wales hospital. I've spoken this morning with staff that work…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Welsh language communities
Shwmae, Cabinet Secretary. May I start by talking about Diwrnod Shwmae, because I think it’s important not just for the number of people who speak Welsh but for language usage—the number of people who speak the language? I think there was a question last week…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Further and Higher Education: Tertiary education
Can I congratulate you, Minister, on your new role? Many congratulations. I know that it's a sector, as you mentioned in your statement, that you feel passionate about and I think it's a passion that we share on these benches, as well, and I'm really looking…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, the primary way in which people affected by the redundancies at Tata will be supported is through the work of the transition board. Now, we know the last UK Conservative Government put £80 million into that transition board, and Tata put £20…
