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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
4. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the implementation of the Arbed scheme in Caerau? OQ61788
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement today on educational standards in Wales. What was missing from your statement was a realistic assessment of where those standards are after 25 years of a Welsh Labour Government. The Organisation for Economic…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
And those at the bottom end, hoping to reach the 10 per cent—. Final question from me. Those at the bottom end, 5 per cent sort of region, hoping to reach that 10 per cent: do you envision that most will do that through the teaching of Welsh as a subject, or…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
What is the lowest level you estimate in some schools for delivering Welsh-medium education at present?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. And just to move back to the 10 per cent, we heard pretty clearly from the witnesses in, I think, the last evidence session we did, from Blaenau Gwent council, which would obviously be one of those councils where we would have a lot of 10 per cent…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Do you think having percentage figures for all three published on the face of the Bill—in the way that is not currently set out in the Bill, but I accept you say will be picked up in regulations—would help aid people's understanding of what each would mean?…
, 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
