Suzy Davies: 9. Will the First Minister make a statement on transport provision in South Wales West? OAQ51728
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much for that answer. You may know that additional events in Swansea and Carmarthen have just been added to the consultation programme for the GW franchise, the Great Western franchise, and I hope that constituents in South Wales West will take this opportunity to press the case for a Swansea parkway station to the north-west of the city. Given the cross-party interest in a...
Suzy Davies: Could I thank the leader of the house for her statement, please? There's a lot in that to welcome and to celebrate. But I think it is worth mentioning that, while we're celebrating this, we are actually marking a milestone rather than the end of the journey. It took another 10 years for the Baldwin Government to introduce equal suffrage, after all, but we've got a long way to go, I think, on...
Suzy Davies: Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, I'd like to refer back to the economy committee report on city deals if I may, and the recommendation that the boundaries of the deal area should be as flexible and as fuzzy as possible. Now, you rejected the recommendation on the grounds of governance, explaining in the debate two weeks ago that you're establishing chief regional officer roles to ensure...
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that answer. I think what I got from that is that they're Welsh Government individuals.
Suzy Davies: That's fine, thank you. In the same report, of course, governance and scrutiny also came up as areas of concern. My understanding is that once the Swansea city deal board has been established, made up, as it will be, of local authority leaders, of course, its work will not go back to those local authorities for scrutiny, and nor will any supporting advisory bodies—[Inaudible.]—such as the...
Suzy Davies: Thank you, and thank you for the elaboration as well, because I was hoping you'd say 'avoiding duplication of effort' in that as well. And thank you for taking the question. I appreciate that some of this is the finance Cabinet Secretary's responsibility, but, as an economy Secretary, I would hope that you would be at least playing a part in defining those KPIs. The deals, of course, have had...
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Caroline, for bringing the short debate to the Chamber today. I think you could argue that the health service has been characterised in this way—that hospitals are very difficult to get into, and then it's very difficult to get out of them again. One of the reasons we lost our community beds was because of the risk of institutionalisation, and I think all of us, as Caroline has...
Suzy Davies: 5. Will the First Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government’s monitoring of ambulance service response categories? OAQ51825
Suzy Davies: Thank you. It's that immediate intervention question I want to raise with you, because, as you'll be aware, there have been some distressing stories in our neck of the woods where a reported injury has in of itself perhaps not been life-threatening, but the outcomes for patients have proven serious because secondary factors have not been taken into consideration by the call handlers. We've...
Suzy Davies: This money is very welcome, and of course it's a very important seedcorn investment for the 1 million speakers policy by 2050, but you can't make the assumption that just because a child goes to Ti a Fi and Mudiad Meithrin they will continue to use Welsh throughout their lives, particularly when they leave school. While it might be quite difficult to monitor the progress of individuals using...
Suzy Davies: In November, the Minister for Children and Social Care announced the setting up of a ministerial advisory group to steer delivery of cross-Government support for carers, with a supporting sum of about £95,000 for the project that would deliver a sort of national approach, if you like. That was three months ago, and I'm wondering if I could ask for an update on that, particularly covering the...
Suzy Davies: Okay. Lovely, thank you.
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much for your statement, Cabinet Secretary. I've just got three questions here, I think. I've been looking at responses from those who have contributed to the consultation from within my own region, so this is where this is coming from. Can I just start with common standards to achieve person-centred care? As you know, the NHS is currently characterised by standards reflecting...
Suzy Davies: 1. What assessment has the Leader of the House made of the ability of Wales’s digital infrastructure to deal with digital radio usage in Wales? OAQ51813
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that answer. The UK Government has indicated, of course, when it's going to consider switching over, or a date for that anyway, when 50 per cent of all radio listening is via digital platform, when national DAB coverage is comparable to FM, and local DAB coverage reaches 90. So, I was interested in your 97 per cent figure there. Those figures have been pretty much reached in...
Suzy Davies: In response to a question that I asked the economy Secretary last year about broadband provision near rail lines, he said that he recognised the importance of Wi-Fi on rail services in Wales and mentioned that Arriva Trains Wales was doing work to improve that at the time. While you know that constituents will enter Swansea train station in Swansea West, it takes them just a matter of...
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much, Llywydd. I move the amendments. It's a shame, in a way, that we're not waiting to have this debate until the middle of the year. I understand why—because of the decision of Elfed Wyn Jones—but it would have been useful to have considered the Euryn Ogwen Williams review on the future of S4C, and to have a period of observation of the BBC's delivery of its portrayal...
Suzy Davies: Certainly.
Suzy Davies: Well, we look forward to that because I'm sure there will be an opportunity to re-consider these issues at that time. Maybe you could respond to this. Would you agree that it's a good idea to have a period where we can observe the BBC's delivery of its commitments on the portrayal of Wales? Because I believe that these proposals, and the proposals at a UK level for the regulation of the radio...
