Suzy Davies: Thank you very much. The proposal is to agree the motion. Does any Member object? [Objection.] I will defer voting under this item until voting time.
Suzy Davies: The next item is item 11, LCM on the Fire Safety Bill, and I call on the Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government to move the motion. Hannah Blythyn.
Suzy Davies: Minister, I wonder if I might ask you to draw your remarks to a close; we're a little over. Thank you.
Suzy Davies: Thank you. I now call on the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths, to reply to the debate.
Suzy Davies: Thank you. I now call on the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee, Mick Antoniw.
Suzy Davies: Thank you. I call on Jenny Rathbone to speak on behalf of the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee. Jenny Rathbone.
Suzy Davies: We will continue with the rest of the agenda today, and I'll start by calling on the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs to move the motion—Lesley Griffiths.
Suzy Davies: Diolch, Llywydd. Thank you very much, Minister, for your statement as well. There's quite a lot in there, which I'm sure I won't be able to cover completely today. Can I congratulate you also on getting this statement onto the agenda within hours of the report being lifted from under embargo? I hope you will use your magic powers with other Ministers so that they can lay regulations for...
Suzy Davies: Obviously, that's come in after I tabled my question. But I think we need some clarification, for students in particular, but not exclusively, on the difference between HMOs, which are houses with shared facilities but individual tenancies, and shared houses—flatmates, if you like. Because regardless of the legalities of it, both those groups of people will tend to treat their homes in...
Suzy Davies: 9. Will the First Minister provide an update on COVID-19 advice given to residents in houses of multiple occupation? OQ55630
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that. That's a good, strong message there to universities, so I certainly hope they're picking that up, because, at some point down the line, of course, we'll be scrutinising you on the spend of that £27 million, and I'm sure you will want that reassurance in the reports that you get back from universities in due course. On a related matter—you'll know this—concerns have...
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that. I think it would be helpful as well if colleges within a certain area might be prepared to speak to some of the headteachers in schools within their area about some of the good ideas that they've had. Further education and higher education have both received over £20 million each from the Welsh Government COVID pot, despite a projected funding gap of more than £400...
Suzy Davies: Sorry about that.
Suzy Davies: Yes, Minister, I was listening to your response to Jayne Bryant there and that observation that schools and colleges aren't vectors for the spread of COVID. Yet we've seen considerable numbers being sent home from some schools—200 in one case, and over 400 in another. You say you're monitoring what's happening at the moment, but have you learnt anything yet about why further education...
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that. It's just to raise the point that some in the sector have been contacted only this week, despite the review's findings due to be published by the end of October, so I'm not sure when the interim one is due. What they say does matter if preparations for the summer are to be practicable. Qualifications Wales have got their own summer 2021 stakeholder group to meet between...
Suzy Davies: 1. Will the Minister provide an update on the progress of the independent review into the summer 2020 arrangements to award grades, and considerations for summer 2021? OQ55603
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Minister, for your opening remarks there, and thank you to Mick Antoniw as well—I think those points were well made. Once again, I'm assuming, Minister, that you're bringing forward these regulations to ensure that staff in schools don't fall foul of the law, and, bearing in mind that you've already said that this doesn't negate the need for school staff to do their very best in...
Suzy Davies: Oh, sorry.
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Minister, for your statement. My entire region is in lockdown now, so they will be very grateful to hear about the £60 million you refer to. But I've got some very specific asks from the tourism sector, the first of which you've already answered. I was very grateful to you for your answer to Helen Mary Jones that these businesses won't necessarily need to comply with certain...
