Suzy Davies: Can I just add my voice to those sentiments as well? I think this is amazing news for Coleg Cymunedol y Dderwen. Even so, the report does note that the curriculum currently limits continuity in the development of pupils’ Welsh and modern foreign language skills, and that it plans to address those in 2017-18. Well, bilingual and even trilingual skills, as I hope you accept, could be agents...
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Russell George.
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Cabinet Secretary.
Suzy Davies: We turn now to item 8—the debate on the general principles of the abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Bill. And I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children to move the motion—Carl Sargaent.
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, and thank you for the promotion as well. Galwaf nawr ar Gadeirydd y Pwyllgor Cydraddoldeb, Llywodraeth Leol a Chymunedau, John Griffiths.
Suzy Davies: Diolch yn fawr. Galwaf ar Gadeirydd y Pwyllgor Cyllid, Simon Thomas.
Suzy Davies: Very brief. I now call on the Chair of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, Huw Irranca-Davies.
Suzy Davies: Yes, could you conclude, please?
Suzy Davies: 8. Will the First Minister provide an update on the Swansea Bay city deal? (OAQ51002)
Suzy Davies: Perhaps there is an area where Welsh Government can give immediate support, and it’s this: you may remember that, in the meeting that was referred to earlier, an independent report came to light that suggested that the affected area was the least likely to experience landslide or slippage, and nature defied that report. So, there may be space here for Welsh Government to be able to help...
Suzy Davies: I’m pleased that there is growing support for this idea. It’s something that Mike Hedges has raised in the Chamber previously and something that I’ve spoken on as well. When we met the shadow board as a group of local Assembly Members last December, they said that transport infrastructure was not part of their thinking on the city deals. I’m pleased that things have moved on on that....
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that answer. Later today, of course, we’ll be debating the parliamentary review on health and social care, which has already identified the underexploited potential of information technology and other life science technology in the reformation of those services, and for me, this has got Swansea bay city deal written all over it. What recent discussions have you had with the...
Suzy Davies: Ten per cent of all healthcare interventions are associated with harm; 20 per cent of all work carried by the health service has no effect on outcomes—this is a quote from the review, and, while that review might be ducking the rather difficult question of how we fund health and social care in the future, it is pretty straight up on showing that we, as a nation, are spending half our block...
Suzy Davies: 1. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on progress for supporting communities in Wales once Communities First has come to an end? (OAQ51003)
Suzy Davies: Swansea council states that the natural assets of the area of outstanding natural beauty provide an opportunity for economic growth and that they are important for well-being, and such benefits must not be compromised by new development that fails to safeguard or enhance the natural asset and ecosystem of the AONB. Can you tell me why the AONB isn’t a statutory consultee with an obligation...
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that answer. It sounds like work is still ongoing. I have to say, you told me shortly before recess, in a question on representations made to me on behalf of Faith in Families in Swansea West, that Swansea’s local Communities First delivery board had, and I quote, ‘detailed transition plans to make sure that locally supported projects didn’t lose out.’ I’ve now been...
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much. I particularly thank you for that last answer, Cabinet Secretary, because the five-year condition, of course, is something that you spoke a lot about when there was a possibility of sale for the site. When it comes to a five-year commitment, though, have you had any sense yet of what type of jobs the merged outfit is going to be prepared to commit to, and when will you...
Suzy Davies: Well, thank you, Presiding Officer. A gaf fi ddatgan, ar gyfer y cofnod, fy mod, tan yn ddiweddar, yn ymddiriedolwr Teuluoedd a Ffrindiau Carcharorion, sydd wedi’i leoli yng Ngharchar ei Mawrhydi Abertawe, sy’n debyg o ddioddef yn sgil dyfodiad y carchar categori C newydd hwn, rwy’n amau? Efallai bod yr Aelodau’n gwybod hefyd fy mod wedi fy hyfforddi i fentora unigolion sydd mewn...
Suzy Davies: No, I won’t. You ought to intervene on your party, actually, Leanne. You’ve worked in the probation service, and you’re allowing members of your party to talk about importing prisoners as if they’re some kind of toxic English commodity. I think it’s disgraceful. You have been absolutely right to criticise how careless tongues have dehumanised refugees and asylum seekers, yet I see...
Suzy Davies: Maybe at the end. [Continues.]—and stopping re-offending, as Bethan Jenkins suggested in March and today. It’s incorrect. It is part of that reform.
