Suzy Davies: ...appreciate, Minister, that you said you're planning to move on—not rest on your laurels, I think you said—despite COVID, and I don't think we can just leave it as 'despite COVID'. It is the big elephant in the room in the delivery of this curriculum. As the head of Pencoed secondary school in my own region said when notice of this statement was being made, 'It's completely lost in the...
Jenny Rathbone: So far, everybody's talked quite a lot about COVID and what it's told us, but nobody's mentioned the elephant in the room, which is the end of the European Union transition period, happening in less than a month. In that small amount of time, we potentially face the most momentous upheaval in our food supply chains, which will make queues at supermarkets in March look like a tea party by...
Caroline Jones: .... And I also welcome their commitment to a review of the income threshold for receiving free school meals. We must not allow a single child in Wales to go hungry. However, we must also address the elephant in the room: the rise of childhood obesity and the lack of nutrition. According to the Food Foundation, a staggering 94 per cent of children consume less than three to five portions of...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...and they relate to the need to strengthen the social care system, to attract and support staff. It’s a sector that has been ignored for far, far too long. But may I suggest that there is another elephant in the room when it comes to ensuring that patients can be released in a timely manner from our acute hospitals? There are some 10,500 hospital beds in Wales; 30 years ago, there were...
Jenny Rathbone: This could be a really important tool for ensuring that all women know about it. The elephant in the room, in my view, is endometriosis, and I appreciate that we're doing lots of work to improve the understanding of both GPs and gynaecologists on this issue. But, it really is a serious issue, and very difficult to disentangle from gynaecological cancer, because if you've got such problems—
Joel James: ...huge sums of money to reduce carbon in industry, encouraging people to change behaviour, as well as changing the ways we heat our home and travel around, we are not actually addressing the elephant in the room—namely, we are adopting practices and embracing technological advances in our lives that are resulting in even more carbon dioxide being produced. For instance, nearly every mobile...
Mike Hedges: ...you can claim, what you're entitled to if you work from home, clothes for work count as expenses, how donating to charity can be good for your tax bill, pensions' relief. And finally there is the elephant in the room—non-domiciled status, used by the wealthy to avoid paying any income tax in Britain whatsoever. UK residents who have their permanent home outside the UK may not have to pay...
