Results 281–300 of 2000 for speaker:Mike Hedges

7. 7. Debate: The Circular Economy (17 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: In the second half of the twentieth century, we became a throwaway society. My grandmother, who was born in the nineteenth century, and lived with an unemployed husband during the 1930s, was often horrified by the general wastefulness of society at that time—items that were working, and nothing wrong them, often thrown away and taken to landfill because they had been replaced. Sometimes,...

7. 7. Debate: The Circular Economy (17 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: Please.

7. 7. Debate: The Circular Economy (17 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: I agree with you entirely. I don’t see why these things can’t be refurbished, and I think that it’s unfortunate there are still some people who have this throwaway mentality. We’ve had rapid technology changes. The mobile phone—I know that’s interrupted this session on several occasions this afternoon. That contains gold, heavy metals—in fact 70 per cent of the heavy metals in...

1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs: Non-native Invasive Species (18 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: 6. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the problem of non-native invasive species in Wales? (OAQ51178)

1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs: Non-native Invasive Species (18 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: Thank you for that answer, Cabinet Secretary. Of all the non-native species that we have in Swansea, the one that’s causing us our biggest problem is Japanese knotweed, which is highly invasive, very difficult to get rid of and causes houses not to be able to be sold, causes drains to be damaged and can cause houses to have their foundations undermined. Can the Cabinet Secretary provide an...

1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government: The Public Sector Pay Cap (25 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: Public sector workers in Wales deserve a pay rise. Public sector workers in Wales need a pay rise. They’re still paying the price for the casino capitalist bankers who took us into an economic crisis. Does the Cabinet Secretary agree that Westminster needs to end austerity and increase the budget allocation to Wales so that we will be able to give workers in Wales the well-deserved pay rise...

5. 5. Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal (25 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: Isn’t it more important, to start with, to ban the test drilling? Because people aren’t test drilling because they’re bored or looking for something to do; they’re test drilling because at some stage in the future, they think they’re going to be able to frack.

6. 6. Debate on the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee's Report: 'Communities First — Lessons Learnt' (25 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: Can I say, firstly, that anyone who thought a £30 million-a-year programme would eradicate poverty was somewhat hyper-optimistic and delusional? This is echoed by the evidence of Caerphilly council. Can I just say that to expect a single programme to singlehandedly reduce poverty is naïve and unrealistic? You will never eradicate generational poverty by a single anti-poverty programme. It...

7. 7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: A Tourism Tax (25 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: Just to ask you: who was in Government in 1986?

9. 9. Voting Time (25 Oct 2017)

Mike Hedges: It doesn’t matter on this vote, but mine isn’t showing on the screen. Whether it’s showing with you or not, I don’t know. It’s not going to matter on this vote, but I think it may matter on others.

Nominations for the Chair of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee (15 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Can I nominate Mick Antoniw?

7. Motion to approve the Assembly Commission's Budget 2018-19 (15 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Will you take an intervention?

7. Motion to approve the Assembly Commission's Budget 2018-19 (15 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Would you not accept that the commission of this Assembly cannot be immune from the austerity that the rest of the public sector in Wales is facing?

3. Statement by the Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport: The Future of Cadw (21 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Can I also add my congratulations to Dafydd Elis-Thomas on his appointment as a Minister? I'd also like to thank him for the statement he's made and the clarity of the decision to keep Cadw as part of Government. I am, however, disappointed that the opportunity to examine what it is for and what it has achieved in respect of protecting the historic built environment was not taken.  There are...

QNR: Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure (22 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on developments taking place on the SA1 site in Swansea?

2. Questions to the Counsel General: Fracking (22 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Can I also congratulate the new Counsel General on his appointment? Simon Thomas is again concentrating on the banning of fracking. Simon Thomas and I don't disagree on a lot of things regarding this, but I think it's far more important to have the power to ban test drilling. As you are well aware, in an area near where you used to live and near where I live, there is substantial test...

7. UKIP Wales debate: new Welsh taxes (22 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: So, you're saying that the cost of alcohol in this country is higher, due to taxation, than that in Scandinavia.

7. UKIP Wales debate: new Welsh taxes (22 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Since being elected in 2011, most of the discussions I’ve heard in the Senedd regarding taxation have been about reducing it—although not quite as extreme as Neil Hamilton this afternoon—rather than the need for taxation to pay for public services. When you look at the cost of private education and private healthcare, it puts into perspective the value for money we all get from our...

7. UKIP Wales debate: new Welsh taxes (22 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Yes, certainly. I've supported a tax on disposable expanded polystyrene packaging, especially that used for food trays in takeaway restaurants, for a very long time. On the tourist tax, it's common around the rest of the world. I actually paid a tourist tax when I was in Dubrovnik; I just didn't know I was paying it. I only discovered it when I looked at places that had a tourist tax. If...

2. Business Statement and Announcement (28 Nov 2017)

Mike Hedges: Can I ask for two statements? Firstly, a Welsh Government statement providing an update on developments in the Swansea city region, and Welsh Government support for the city region, and further confirmation of what the Cabinet Secretary for Finance said earlier this week: that the money would be made available for the city region within the budget. The second question I would like to ask is...


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