Delyth Jewell: One crucial factor in ensuring hospitals can provide care is the level of staff absences. You've said, Minister, that there were around 10,000 staff absences in the Welsh NHS last week, and 98 per cent of British Medical Association Cymru members said they're concerned about staffing levels because of those absences. Last week, I asked the First Minister about providing higher grade masks...
Delyth Jewell: As we mark Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, I'd like to make a general point at the outset, and that is that girls don't always get taught enough about their bodies—neither do boys, of course. A mix of embarrassment, a lack of understanding, even body shaming, can coalesce from when girls are really quite young, and those factors surely contribute to the fact that one in three women fail to...
Delyth Jewell: A crisis is usually immediate. It's a time of intense difficulty, sometimes danger. But when we think of crises, we tend to associate them with suddenness, of something unforeseen, unplanned for, inescapable. This crisis, though, this coalescence of attacks on people's cost of living, is completely foreseen. In some respects like the cut to universal credit, it has been actively brought on by...
Delyth Jewell: Will the Minister make a statement on access to hospital services in South Wales East?
Delyth Jewell: 3. Will the First Minister make a statement on the future of Welsh-medium education in South Wales East? OQ57532
Delyth Jewell: Well, thank you very much for that. The 'Cymraeg 2050' strategy does refer to increasing the proportion of each school year group receiving Welsh-medium education from 22 per cent by 2031. There are counties in the south-east where there isn't a single Welsh-medium secondary school. But, even in the primary sector, there are areas that are missing out. Since the closure of the Ysgol Gymraeg...
Delyth Jewell: I'd like a statement about ensuring women's safety on public transport, please. My colleague Peredur Owen Griffiths and I have been dealing with the case of a woman in her late 70s who tried to get on a Stagecoach bus in Hay in late November. She was refused entry by an instructor, who told her that the service was only meant for students, even though the timetable didn't say that, and the...
Delyth Jewell: There are some horrors in history that are so evil that human beings want to try and forget them, but we must never do that with the Holocaust, because it was a horror perpetrated almost in plain sight, and it is the banality of the evil and the fact that it happened over years that stands out as well: a railway that was built to take people to gas chambers to die, queues of people to be...
Delyth Jewell: Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, the Crown Estate in Wales generated £8.7 million in revenue last year, and the valuation of the estate's Welsh marine portfolio has increased from £49.2 million to £549.1 million. These are resources that could enable Wales to develop our Welsh renewable energy industry and retain wealth to fund Welsh public services, instead of selling off precious assets to the...
Delyth Jewell: Thank you for that, Minister. I look forward to seeing developments on this as that progresses. I was going to raise a different issue with you this afternoon, but actually this lunchtime a number of Members attended the cross-party group on clean air and we heard a really powerful presentation from someone called Rosamund whose daughter, I believe living in London, died and it was found that...
Delyth Jewell: Thank you for putting your hand up there, Deputy Minister.
Delyth Jewell: Stalking is a crime that shatters lives. It's a cumulative dread that builds in the mind, a mass of moments of infringements on a survivor's psyche and sanity, a campaign of quiet terror that pulls a person apart piece by piece. I've worked with a number of survivors of stalking, and the mental anguish that they're put through is debilitating. Stalkers blow families apart, destroy...
Delyth Jewell: What assessment has the Minister made of the effectiveness of the council tax reduction scheme in addressing the cost-of-living crisis?
Delyth Jewell: The levelling-up fund White Paper makes for an interesting read, doesn't it, First Minister, with references to Renaissance Florence, Jericho's Byzantine empire, if nothing else, but it also references the levelling-up that happened in Germany after reunification, explaining that £1.7 trillion was spent there up to 2014, being £71 billion a year over 24 years. The levelling-up and shared...
Delyth Jewell: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, as we've just been hearing, millions of people across the UK are going to be put in a situation of incredible stress because of the price cap on bills going up by 54 per cent. Parts of Wales are set to be hardest hit in all of the UK. Local authority areas, including Ceredigion, will be looking at £972, Gwynedd £904, Carmarthenshire £853, Powys £848....
Delyth Jewell: May I, first of all, thank the Minister for finance and the Government for bringing this debate before the Senedd? I will be contributing to this debate on behalf of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee. Considering the committee's wide remit, I will focus on the main points that we have noted following our scrutiny of the budget. Since the...
Delyth Jewell: 2. What action is the Welsh Government taking to protect people on low incomes in the face of the cost-of-living crisis? OQ57618
Delyth Jewell: Diolch, Weinidog. I'd like to ask you specifically, please, about some more information on the round-table that you're going to be hosting next week, which I really do welcome. I know that the Government agreed to convene that following a Plaid Cymru debate in the Senedd. I'd be grateful if you could give us some more information, please, about the sectors and the groups that will be...
Delyth Jewell: 10. What legal advice has the Counsel General given to the Welsh Government on the devolution of more taxation powers? OQ57617
Delyth Jewell: Thank you for that answer. On a recent visit to Wales, Counsel General, the Prime Minister said that 'devolved governments had to take more responsibility on raising their own finance.' Could you therefore tell us which new taxation powers the UK Government has offered the Welsh Government? And, if none have been offered, what do you, Counsel General, think that the Prime Minister meant when...
