Mark Reckless: Against.
Mark Reckless: Abstain.
Mark Reckless: Abstain.
Mark Reckless: In favour.
Mark Reckless: In favour.
Mark Reckless: Abstain.
Mark Reckless: In favour.
Mark Reckless: Abstain.
Mark Reckless: First Minister, do you consider it satisfactory that this Senedd, operating under Welsh Government guidance, should just have two opportunities to question you in person over a period of six months? Do you prefer to have scrutiny through daily press conferences, broadcast live, with no opportunity for opposition reply? With many of those media outlets financially dependent on the Welsh...
Mark Reckless: So, the First Minister is content with that scrutiny—four Labour voices, no opposition voices? And it is far from the only example. If one depends on one's news on BBC Wales, and many of the organisations funded by Welsh Government to provide news, one would have the impression that, under our great helmsman, Mark Drakeford, there has been a great success in management of the COVID crisis...
Mark Reckless: Thank you, Minister, very much for your statement. I think, within my group, there is a degree of scepticism around the new curriculum, but I think the passion with which the Minister speaks—we wish to remain engaged in the debate and we haven't, at this stage, decided to oppose it. We'd like to see the Bill in more detail and benefit further from discussions with the Minister. She says...
Mark Reckless: First Minister, you've overseen a significantly higher COVID-19 infection rate in Wales than in the rest of the United Kingdom, as well as a worse economic situation. Despite this, you've found time to lambast the UK Government over its Brexit responsibilities, twice using the crisis to demand they extend the transition period, as you've once again tried to block Brexit. Now, we see your...
Mark Reckless: In many areas, First Minister, you've understandably made commitments as a Government that it has not been possible to carry through or that have had to be delayed because of the COVID crisis. I merely suggest that you allow and accept that similar pressures affect the UK Government. Wales voted for Brexit. You put forward your proposals on the area at the general election, and there's now a...
Mark Reckless: Thank you, sir—a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, David Melding. First Minister, thank you for your statement. Thank you very, very much for stating that the Brexit debate is over, but it's very important to bring what is necessary onto the statue book in an orderly and effective manner. I strongly agree, and I think there was an apparent invitation to support or at least be...
Mark Reckless: First Minister, may I thank you for your statement and also thank you for the continuing extraordinary hard work that you've been putting in? We've been on recess—I suspect you're not going to have the chance to get away on holiday like, perhaps, some others may—and I know your workload has been extraordinary. So, thank you for that. You were speaking about the aim of the regulations. At...
Mark Reckless: I thank the Minister for his statement and the Chair of the committee for the procedural background I might have expected to have had from the Minister. We haven't had an explanation as to why having, since the original set on 26 March, had a series of amendments to those regulations—. Now that approach has been changed and the initial overall set of regulations and all the amendments are...
Mark Reckless: Thank you for your statement, First Minister. You said that, in Wales, the coronavirus was effectively suppressed. You then went on to contrast that with the wider UK context, saying it has become more challenging, with rising numbers and reimposed restrictions across the island of Ireland, which was included in the UK context, and in both Scotland and England. Is it the case that Wrexham has...
Mark Reckless: First Minister, given the legal requirement to inform the Information Commissioner within 72 hours, and his guidance to inform those affected without undue delay, did you and/or Public Health Wales sit, I believe, for around two weeks on news of this major data leak? Could I also ask you to clarify your version of the rule of six, which you insist must be different from England's? Why say...
Mark Reckless: In Sweden, there was no lockdown, as we've discussed before, First Minister, and there has to date been no significant resurgence in the virus; indeed, we've just lifted travel restrictions on Sweden. Yet in Spain, where there was a very severe lockdown, we're seeing a large resurgence of the virus. What then is the reasoning behind the Welsh Government's strategy of keeping people locked...
Mark Reckless: Counsel General, once again you seem to want to frustrate Brexit. Your party voted against every withdrawal agreement, while legislating to prevent our leaving the EU without an agreement, to try to remain in the EU even though Wales and the UK had voted to leave. As Darren Millar said in his excellent contribution, while you didn't object to the EU exercising powers, you won't extend that...
