Adam Price: If so, why is Keir Starmer talking about making Brexit work rather than taking us back into the single market? Now, if we can turn to Qatar, you will have seen the reports that Welsh fans, including former Wales captain, Laura McAllister, were refused entry into the stadium last night for wearing rainbow hats and T-shirts. You will also have read FIFAs refusal to rule out a sporting sanction...
Adam Price: 5. What plans does the Welsh Government have to increase the quality and availability of rail journeys in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr? OQ58747
Adam Price: 3. What is the Welsh Government doing to support post-16 learners in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr who are in receipt of education maintenance allowance? OQ58748
Adam Price: 1. What assessment has the Counsel General made of how the Supreme Court's judgement on the Scottish Parliament's intention to hold a second independence referendum will affect Wales’s ability to decide its own constitutional future? TQ687
Adam Price: I'm grateful to the Minister for his response. Of course, you and I will be very familiar with this line, as it travels through the middle of the town where we were educated. It provides a wonderful journey, of course, through mid Wales. But many of my constituents have been having poor experiences recently, in terms of regular delays, poor availability and poor reliability. During the past...
Adam Price: It is a cause of great pride for us in Wales that we have continued with the EMA, which isn't true of some other parts of the United Kingdom. But one thing that hasn't happened, of course, as the Minister is aware, is that we haven't increased the allowance in line with inflation since it was introduced in 2004. So, it has lost real-terms value over that time of almost two decades, and that...
Adam Price: Well, as we know, Counsel General, the Supreme Court delivered its verdict that the Scottish Government, despite the strength of the democratic mandate it secured at last year's Holyrood election, has no legal route under the current constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom to hold an independence referendum if Westminster continues to withhold its consent. The Prime Minister of the...
Adam Price: Will the Minister give way?
Adam Price: Thank you for giving way. I specifically asked if you could update us on the current figure. So, can you tell us what is the current figure for unallocated spending and what is the current figure for the Welsh reserve?
Adam Price: Yes, well, will you tell us what—? Do you have the figures for unallocated spending currently and for the reserve? And can you share them with us?
Adam Price: Just to be clear, you're saying—
Adam Price: Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, today, Cymru meets England as an equal and independent footballing nation on the field of play in Qatar, and I'm sure that we're all praying for what would be the most famous of victories. But, are we equal nations on the fields of power and politics? That's the question raised by last week's Supreme Court judgment. You've said previously that the United...
Adam Price: In the conversation that you had with Sir Keir Starmer, did he reiterate the comments that he made in an interview earlier this month, which were confirmed by his official spokesperson following the judgment last week, that he would not agree to an independence referendum in Scotland following the next general election? Is that not a denial of democracy? And on that theme, what do you, First...
Adam Price: So, you’ve changed your view, then, from the summer, when you said: 'The SNP...won an election on the basis they would seek another referendum. How can that be denied to the Scottish people?' And Anna McMorrin was directly asked whether she was prepared to commit to the devolution of justice, and she was not prepared to give that commitment. Now, can I turn to the consequences for Wales...
Adam Price: Thank you, Llywydd. You will have seen the census figures that demonstrate a further decline in the number of Welsh speakers in Wales, and a significant fall in terms of young people between the ages of three and 15 who speak the language. Now, this demonstrates, doesn't it, that a central element of the Welsh Government's policy, namely developing Welsh-medium education across Wales, is...
Adam Price: I am disappointed with your initial response, First Minister, this afternoon, because there was recognition as the figures were published 10 years ago that we were in a critical situation, and that action was needed. That's what led then to the cross-party debate that got behind the aim of a million Welsh speakers. So, there was an acknowledgement that census figures are important. Every...
Adam Price: Can I turn to—[Interruption.] Yes, I know. Can I turn to constitutional matters? The Labour Party 2017 manifesto included a commitment to devolving policing to Wales. The Silk commission, set up by a Conservative-led administration, recommended it in 2014. Your own Government's Thomas commission recommended the devolution of policing and justice as a whole, and the Labour Party manifesto in...
Adam Price: Diolch, Llywydd. Over the last few days, Labour's shadow health Secretary in Westminster, Wes Streeting, has referred to the RCN and Unison's offer to suspend strike action, if the UK health Secretary was prepared to discuss pay. That is an offer that is too good to refuse, but that is what the Tories are doing at Westminster, and that's what you are doing in Wales. Steve Barclay met with the...
Adam Price: They haven't taken £400 million out of the NHS, they've invested it in the NHS workforce and have recognised that, without actually sustaining the morale of that workforce, then there wouldn't be an NHS, because, actually, who is there to deliver it? Now, Rishi Sunak has said that an inflationary pay increase for all public sector workers would cost £28 billion; the Institute for Fiscal...
Adam Price: I think it's astonishing that you're attacking the Tories in Westminster when you're doing exactly the same in Wales in refusing to talk about pay to the unions. I just disagree philosophically with the First Minister: I do not see that actually investing in better pay and conditions for the workforce is actually diverting money out of the NHS; it's investing in the long-term, sustainable...
