, Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
Thank you, Chair. I'm conscious of time and the various questions my colleagues want to ask as well, so I'll try and have a quick-fire approach with the questions and answers, if that's okay.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Vocational qualifications
Thank you, Minister, for your statement today. I am so pleased to see a firm commitment to move forward on ensuring parity of esteem between vocational and academic qualifications. It's what our young people deserve, what our country urgently needs if we are…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service review of culture and values—Next steps
Thank you, Minister, for your statement here today. I note the decisive action that Welsh Government is taking to ensure confidence in south Wales fire and rescue and that transformation takes place, so that unacceptable workplace practices are eliminated. I…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I'm sure that all of us in this Chamber can remember the disgraceful comments by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman that rough-sleeping was a so-called 'lifestyle choice', while defending her decision to restrict the use of tents by…
, Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
Okay.
, Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
Thank you. And, just very quickly, you've outlined those eight guiding principles of effective response and recovery, but, in your view, out of those, which would be the key ones to consider in a comprehensive risk assessment of civil contingencies?
, Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Briefing: Civil contingencies and preparedness for the publication of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's report into Module 1
Thank you. You've covered some of my questions, so I'll try to be brief. First of all to ask how well you think existing civil contingency plans were designed to adapt to any unforeseen challenges and emerging threats.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Holocaust Memorial Day
Thank you, Minister, for your important statement. As you say, it is inherent on all of us, if we’re to create a safer, more equal nation, to call out hate, bigotry and the evils that are inflicted in their name, and never let the suffering that they cause be…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, First Minister. Last week I chaired a round-table discussion of a new report on the purpose of mutual and co-operative business in society. The report highlighted, for example, that the UK mutual and co-operative economy in 2022 had combined annual…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. What action is the Welsh Government taking to grow the co-operative economy? OQ60628
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
Thank you, Minister, for your statement today. It's a point I made during the debate last week on the Equality and Social Justice Committee's report, but I do think it's important that we note that relative child poverty in Wales declined from 2012-13 to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Thank you. I'll close with a question from the Welsh Retail Consortium, then, talking about tracking spend. They say that, for the retail action plan to have purpose, it requires budgetary support. What would your answer be to that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Thank you. And your paper to us, Minister, says that £20 million of capital funding will be allocated to support small businesses in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors, but they're going to receive less business rate relief than they did in the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Thank you. That's interesting. I think it shows how, as a committee, we might have to look more broadly to follow things on the foundational economy.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Thank you, and, obviously, embedding the foundational economy like that across Government is a fantastic approach. How do we then track and monitor progress? That can be a difficult thing. Maybe you could tell us some more about your work with other Ministers…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Economy
Diolch, Cadeirydd. It won't surprise you to know that it's the foundational economy I want to focus on this afternoon, Minister. You recently described the foundational economy as a central part of our economic mission, and said that growing it was a…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Brilliant. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you, and that was going to bring me into my last area of questions, actually, on Farming Connect. Could you give us a bit of an update on the work to develop that, and whether there's going to be sufficient budget available now to support those…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Okay. Thank you. And another thing that farmers and other stakeholders have raised with us quite a few times is the need for skilled advisers to engage farmers with the new SFS, and I understand that's recommended in the biodiversity deep-dive as well. So…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you. And when we visit farms as a committee, something that farmers always raise with us is the need for support for ICT systems. So, the single payment scheme administration resource BEL has been reduced by £5.5 million, and that's for Rural Payments…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you. Could you just talk us through the decision to reduce the agricultural strategy allocation by £150,000 from the indicative budget, and how do you foresee that that's going to impact the SFS policy's development?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I've got some questions on the sustainable farming scheme for you this morning, Minister. Firstly, we see a reduction in the rural affairs budget to the anticipated sustainable farming scheme in 2025 compared with that previously envisaged…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that answer, Minister. Trivallis housing association gave 10 RCT families an early Christmas present last year, presenting them with keys to newly renovated family homes. These empty properties had been brought back into use through the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
7. What action is the Welsh Government taking to increase the availability of social housing in Cynon Valley? OQ60497
