Suzy Davies: As you know, the proposed site at Baglan, Cabinet Secretary, is in my region. I'm very interested to see the steps that both Governments will take on this next. As I said in my contribution to the debate a few weeks ago that I have fewer reservations about the concept of these large-site prisons for the reason I gave then, which boil down essentially to their better rehabilitation rates and...
Suzy Davies: I haven't got much time. Make it quite quick.
Suzy Davies: It's not at full capacity, I completely agree with you, but many of the staff there have had experience of working in this type of prison before and were informing their answers to me not just on their experience in Berwyn but where they'd been previously. As I say, I did ask those questions about the burdens on local services, and they did fit with what we'd heard in the debate coming from...
Suzy Davies: I just wanted to check whether you've seen that, because I have, and I wouldn't describe it as barracks accommodation myself.
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much, Llywydd. I agree 100 per cent: the Welsh language has been part of the curriculum since devolution, and there are a number of people who do have Welsh language skills and who don’t use them, or who don’t consider themselves to have those skills. Teachers—there’s a sabbatical programme available for teachers. Do you have any idea, as of yet, how meaningful support...
Suzy Davies: It's been 15 months since the issue of woodchip fires and illegal dumping of woodchip was raised in the Chamber, so I'd be very grateful if we could have a statement from the Cabinet Secretary, or possibly from the environment Minister now, updating us on progress: on the areas of regulation that need reform, the evidence that's underpinned the decisions that they've come to, and what...
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much for the introductory contribution there, Minister. I've a lot of questions on this. I wasn't actually involved with the two Acts that are referred to in this when they came through, so you'll forgive me if I say that I think that some of these regulations have been used as an opportunity to develop policy rather than to implement it—and why it is so important that we get...
Suzy Davies: I don't think we've got time.
Suzy Davies: The former Minister said that he'd be willing to look at the role of small businesses themselves in promoting the use of the Welsh language. I believe that it's a very good idea to find key individuals within small businesses who could share the responsibility for developing this as part of lifelong learning or CPD, continuous professional development, or some other appropriate approach for...
Suzy Davies: The education sector is represented on the Swansea bay city deal's shadow board by universities. A range of skills, which may, of course, capture some of the individuals that we speak about in this question, will be needed in the workforce if the deal is to reach as many communities as possible, which raises the question of the role of further education colleges in the deal. They need to be...
Suzy Davies: Cabinet Secretary, co-responders are an essential part of the ambulance service provision, not least in rural areas. Their role is also being increasingly felt as, when attending amber or even green calls, what they discover is a person whose status was red, or whose status had become red due to the delay, which they can either deal with themselves or escalate. Can you confirm that you've...
Suzy Davies: Since I've been an Assembly Member, which is the best part of seven years now, Welsh Government has given over £320 million of taxpayers' money towards businesses in Wales, which, of course, includes South Wales West. By October, just at the end of last year, we heard that less than £7 million of that total has been repaid to date, and, even from a Welsh Conservative point of view, which...
Suzy Davies: Thank you for the code being published today. I'm afraid I haven't seen it so some of the questions I ask may have already been answered, so apologies if that's the case. The first is whether the code as published makes it clear where it diverges from the present CPS code so that we can actually see pretty easily where the differences are. The reason I ask that question is that when the...
Suzy Davies: Will the First Minister explain why the Welsh Government needed to renegotiate its arrangements with Pinewood Studios?
Suzy Davies: 3. Will the First Minister make a statement on the announcement this morning of Welsh Government capital funding for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon? 99
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that answer. I was hoping you might give me a little bit more on that, but that leaves me more questions to ask. We've just heard, via the press, just about quarter of an hour ago, actually, that the substantial sum seems to have been identified at somewhere between £100 million and £200 million. I'm wondering if you could confirm that in your reply to this, but, if it is at...
Suzy Davies: Well, the movement of goods and people and its effect on the economy sounds exactly like the sort of thing that used to get me doodling in the margins when I was doing my A-levels. But it is absolutely fundamental to the prosperity of Wales and the quality consequential of our public services. I think some of the statistical evidence that we've already heard in this debate is pretty...
Suzy Davies: One of my concerns about the UNCRC as it has been applied in Wales is that it only binds us here in the Assembly and in the Welsh Government, and we've long called—certainly on this side of the Chamber—for those rights to be enshrined at all levels of public service, including local authorities, and certainly in our health services. So, I don't know whether you've considered, in looking...
Suzy Davies: Who is currently advising the Cabinet Secretary on decisions to approve applications made to the media investment budget?
Suzy Davies: Will the First Minister provide an update on progress against the objectives of the Welsh Government’s Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Plan?
