Rhianon Passmore: I had also the fortune to meet with representatives of the British Society for Rheumatology and the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society in the Pierhead building recently, and I thank David Melding for bringing forward this debate. I was struck by the points made to me, and that, with a population of over 2 million and over 400,000 children in south Wales, there is a strong case to be made...
Rhianon Passmore: First Minister, will you join with me in welcoming the construction of a new state-of-the-art £350 million hospital in Cwmbran, named the Grange University Hospital? It will help to modernise health services across Gwent for my constituents also in Islwyn. Judith Paget, chief executive of Aneurin Bevan university health board said, and I quote, ‘We have received fantastic support from...
Rhianon Passmore: Leader of the house, tomorrow I am sponsoring a celebration of Welsh musical performance culture in the Senedd, with the Arts Council for Wales at 12 noon in the Neuadd. I invite the leader of the house, yourself, Llywydd, and all Members to the celebration event. As well as a range of youth performances, the event will be headlined by one of Wales’s greatest sons, Bryn Terfel, and it...
Rhianon Passmore: Will you take an intervention, please?
Rhianon Passmore: Will you take an intervention?
Rhianon Passmore: Do you accept that there will always be a need for social housing stock, and are you ideologically opposed to social housing?
Rhianon Passmore: Will you take an intervention?
Rhianon Passmore: Between 1 April 1981 and 31 March 2016, 139,000 local authority housing association homes were sold off. That’s 45 per cent. None of them were replaced.
Rhianon Passmore: Thank you, Llywydd—I didn’t realise I was going to be called. In March of this year the Welsh Government announced it was introducing the Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Bill. In the months since, there has been an emerging near consensus in broad support for the general principles of the Bill. Too many pundits have closed their ears to practical solutions that...
Rhianon Passmore: 1. Will the Cabinet Secretary outline what actions the Welsh Government is taking to develop tourism in Islwyn to aid economic regeneration? OAQ(5)0199(EI)
Rhianon Passmore: Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on how the Welsh Government is improving rail services in Islwyn?
Rhianon Passmore: Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. The Valleys taskforce has expressed its desire to use the wonderful natural landscape of Wales to promote our economy. In Islwyn, we have the wondrous Cwmcarn forest scenic drive, which we need reopened. We have the historic grade II Navigation colliery, with its grade II listed buildings. Cabinet Secretary, what can the Welsh Government do to showcase the great...
Rhianon Passmore: 7. What is the Welsh Government doing to protect and promote the rights of disabled people in Wales? (OAQ51039)
Rhianon Passmore: Thank you, First Minister. Theresia Degener, the chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has called it a ‘human catastrophe’, following their inquiry into the way that the UK treats its disabled citizens. Atos and Capita, who are tasked by the UK Government with carrying out with personal independent payment assessments, have earned over £0.5...
Rhianon Passmore: Would the First Minister concur with many, including the stakeholders highlighted by my colleague Huw Irranca, that an unamended European withdrawal Bill would be an unequivocal and fundamental assault on devolution, and further, that UK Ministers, post devolution, could enact, and therefore fundamentally destabilise hard-won democratic devolution of 20 years, and, like Neil Hamilton,...
Rhianon Passmore: Further to my cross-party statement, I wish to request a statement to this place on the status of music support services across Wales, the availability to Wales’s school pupils of affordable access to instrumental tuition and orchestral access, and the proposed benefit to Wales of a new national music performance strategy for Wales.
Rhianon Passmore: Thank you. First of all, I would like to welcome the action plan as a positive and transformational step forward for Wales, and my question really is based around the fact that we do have the best ever GCSE results for Wales. Are we complacent in that journey in moving forward? Do you feel that attainment gap that we are now closing is closing fast enough? And are you very confident that the...
Rhianon Passmore: First Minister, the Welsh Government, in January 2017, announced veterans and armed forces champions of health boards and NHS trusts in Wales. The Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board, which covers my constituents in Islwyn, named Brian Mawby as the champion. Congratulations to him. What impact does the First Minister believe these champions are having on ensuring that local service plans provide...
Rhianon Passmore: I rise to support the amendments to the motion that have been tabled by the leader of the house, the Member for the Vale of Glamorgan. The national health service is one of the greatest creations of any democratically elected Government in the history of humanity. It is globally recognised as the optimum model of care. We, on these Welsh Labour benches, laud the achievements of the 1945...
Rhianon Passmore: Will you take an intervention?
