Carwyn Jones: The Supporting Service Children in Education project within the WLGA has been funded through the European social fund since 2014 to mitigate issues of mobility and deployment. That project has produced a guide for parents of service children about the Welsh education system, and for teachers on supporting service children. The latest resource to be produced by this project is the digital...
Carwyn Jones: Our policies on sport are set in the context of ‘Taking Wales Forward’ and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. Our investment in sport, via Sport Wales, focuses on encouraging participation amongst all ages and ensuring sporting infrastructure is in place so that talented sportsmen and sportswomen reach their potential.
Carwyn Jones: Absolutely. I saw the scenes at the end of the game, the scenes of joy, when the second goal went in against Notts County. In fact, I tweeted at the time. I’m more than happy to congratulate Newport County. I think the Dragons have a bright future as well—they need more financial stability, but that seems to be coming together. I fully recognise the importance of sporting development. The...
Carwyn Jones: We continue to take a broad range of actions to support the manufacturing sector across Wales.
Carwyn Jones: Well, can I remind him that it is a key commitment of this Government that we will fund a 100,000 apprenticeship for people of all ages over the course of this Assembly term, something that we think is hugely important? He’s right to point out that manufacturing is of greater importance to the Welsh economy than it is for the UK as a whole. Some 10.8 per cent of the Welsh workforce are in...
Carwyn Jones: The Superfast Cymru scheme has, to date, facilitated the roll-out of superfast broadband access to over 46,500 homes and businesses across Powys, including, of course, Montgomeryshire, delivering average speeds of 87 Mbps and investing over £13.3 million.
Carwyn Jones: Absolutely. Perhaps, if the Member could write to me with the details of his constituent’s problem, I will, of course, investigate.
Carwyn Jones: Diolch, Llywydd. You’ve spoken for all Members in expressing the complete solidarity of this Assembly and the Welsh people as a whole with the people of Manchester and all those families who are suffering today. This was a particular form of cruelty at work, because this act was directed towards teenagers coming out of a concert. It’s difficult to imagine an act more appalling and more...
Carwyn Jones: Diolch, Llywydd. Can I begin by offering the sympathies of the whole Chamber to Julie and the family after the shocking news that they received. I’m sure all Members will want to join me in those sentiments. Last week there was a leader’s debate, which some of us took part in, in Penarth. When I left that debate, as soon as I left the chamber the debate had taken place in, I received the...
Carwyn Jones: Well, our priority is to provide the people of Pembrokeshire with health services that deliver the best possible outcomes for patients.
Carwyn Jones: Well, of course, we have considered this previously, and it’s fair to say that there’s more yet to be done. We will build on the basis of the At in order to ensure that strategies are put in place to deal with this problem. It’s a problem not just in Wales, but in every wealthy country in western Europe, and, of course, it’s arising, too, in countries where it hasn’t been seen...
Carwyn Jones: Well, what’s important, of course, is that services are secure. Where services have been amended, and the royal colleges have said that that is something that should have been done, then we support that as a Government. But, having said that, we must ensure that every service that can be delivered at Withybush is available in the hospital, but that doesn’t mean to say that everything that...
Carwyn Jones: We continue to support economic development across the whole of Wales by helping businesses to grow, investing in high quality infrastructure, and improving economic development conditions.
Carwyn Jones: Well, ‘carefully’ I think is the word that I’d use. Firstly, if we look at business rates, if they were to be devolved to local authorities then 17 of the 22 local authorities would lose out. So, we must be careful that we don’t see that situation arise. We will look to devolve powers to appropriate bodies where we can. It’s fair to say that not all local authorities are able to...
Carwyn Jones: Very much so. Work is already under way, of course, to help deliver the Wylfa Newydd project. We announced the £20 million fund to establish an advanced manufacturing and research institute, supporting key employers like Airbus. We’ve announced plans, of course, to invest more than £200 million in the A55/A494 corridor. We’ve committed £50 million to take forward the first phase of the...
Carwyn Jones: Very much so. I’m sure that the entire Chamber was supportive of what I said earlier on and indeed what the leader of Plaid Cymru has said. There are always exercises to look at how attacks like this can be dealt with, but when it actually happens, then, of course, the system is tested very rigorously. And certainly, what we have seen from the emergency services, what we’ve seen from the...
Carwyn Jones: Absolutely not. Extremists only represent themselves; a very small number of people with a worldview that is intolerant and is driven to violence. They are happy to murder people of all religions or none. They are happy to murder young people who are doing nothing more than going out for a night out. It’s too early to say, of course, the extent of what surrounded the events last night. The...
Carwyn Jones: Yes. I touched on this in the conversation I had with the deputy national security advisor. The security arrangements for the Champions League final are robust. I met with a number of the organisations involved last week for the final time, including gold command. All the preparations are in place in terms of communications and in terms of security. Members and indeed members of the public...
Carwyn Jones: I thank the leader of the Welsh Conservatives for his comments. It is difficult for us in this Chamber and the vast majority of people across the world to conceive of a philosophy that holds that murdering young people advances the cause of humanity. How can we understand those thought processes? But we know that there are some, unfortunately, who hold those views, and there is, of course, a...
Carwyn Jones: Can I thank the leader of UKIP for his comments? One of the main purposes of acts such as this is to make us more angry and more intolerant in order to provoke an even greater reaction. We do not need to do that. We are bigger than they are. Today, the mood of the Chamber is sombre—that’s true, and with good reason. In the next few days, we’ll get back to debate, we’ll get back to...
