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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
8. What is the Welsh Government doing to boost businesses across South Wales West? OQ63690
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COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Just finally, Chair, the Scottish Government has taken a different view on this, and obviously hasn't taken the same decision. Have you spoken to the Scottish Government about why they reached that decision?
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COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Finally, you started this session today by saying how difficult and complicated the COVID-19 pandemic response was for the Welsh Government. I think it would have been difficult for every Government in the world, and no Government will have got every decision…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Okay, thank you. In your written evidence, you state that you support the principle of independent scrutiny. As the Welsh Government has chosen not to support the creation of a UK-wide independent statutory body for whole-system, civil-emergency preparedness…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
But there's a difference, isn't there, between the amount of use and how effective it is? Do you accept that?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about governance and accountability. First Minister, in your written evidence, you stated that feedback from the responder community indicates the revised structures have been agile and effective…
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Papers to note
Thought I'd save you a job. [Laughter.]
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Papers to note
Content to note.
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm grateful to you, First Minister, for your response. As you said, at the former 3M factory, firefighting foam that contained carcinogenic chemicals was found and revealed as part of a BBC investigation just before Christmas. We know that that could have…
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Questions to the First Minister
4. Will the First Minister make a statement on the discovery of carcinogenic forever chemicals at the former 3M factory in Gorseinon? OQ63671
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Employment
It’s great to be able to contribute to this debate today, which highlights the unfortunate and devastating decline we’ve witnessed in our economic outputs since Labour gained power in Wales. Twenty-five years of this tired Government. They refer to themselves…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
And finally, what potential do you see for the 'demonstrator town' concept that the Welsh Government has proposed, in which it would then deliver a programme of infrastructure investment alongside complementary behaviour change interventions to understand and…
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Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
It's fine. Back in 2022, the cross-party group on active travel called for a structure to deliver professionally designed behaviour change interventions for active travel and a centre of expertise. Are they calls that you would be minded to support?
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Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
Even in a rural area, like Powys, that would be achievable, do you think?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
Okay. I was going to come on to behaviour change actually, so this is quite helpful. So, beyond simply the development of those routes, what does need to change—and we’ve touched on some of these already—to drive active travel behaviour? So, there might be…
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Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
Okay, thank you. Can I ask how big an issue is it, of routes being put forward for funding by local authorities not always being in the best areas, or perhaps not adequately connected to facilitate modal shift? In your experience, how big an issue is that…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
Okay. Thank you. Following on from that, then, in terms of that long line, if you like, of routes to come, how have the local authorities we’ve got with us today gone about prioritising routes for development from their overall network maps? And have any of…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
Thank you very much. I know Mike talked about mapping at the end of his last set of questions, which is a theme I’m going to develop a little bit further. Can I ask to what extent you believe that the current active travel network mapping requirements and…
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Paper(s) to note
On that, obviously I’m very new to this, but they haven’t mentioned how they're measuring this in the letter, and I'm conscious, as part of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill that the Welsh Government are introducing, that they've got the…
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Paper(s) to note
Content to note.
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Paper(s) to note
No, I concur with that.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Speech and language therapists
As we've heard this evening in our debate, 1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability, and that number is predicted to grow up to 34 per cent by 2027, and despite 89 per cent of people with learning disabilities needing the support of a speech…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Speech and language therapists
Thank you very much, Llywydd, and could I start by thanking everyone who has taken part in our debate tonight in the Senedd, and to everyone who has spoken on what we have brought forward? And I'd like to wish 'a happy birthday' to the royal college of speech…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I ask for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government on the use of chauffeur-driven cars by Welsh councils? That comes after news reports that state that the former Labour leader and now mayor of Bridgend County Borough…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch yn fawr. One of the priorities that you set out when becoming First Minister was to ensure that more people in Wales lived in warm homes. And to that end, I noticed a tweet you sent out last week that read: 'Warm homes and lower bills—the future we're…
