Jeremy Miles: Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on how the Welsh Government is supporting school staff to deliver healthy relationships education in schools?
Jeremy Miles: Two brief questions, Minister. Firstly, obviously, the focus of the programme is on getting people into work. One of the challenges we face is improving terms and conditions and promotion and progression through the workforce when you're in work. What level of focus will the programme be able to give to supporting progression in that sense? Secondly, you indicate that you’ll be providing...
Jeremy Miles: Well, here we are starting out on our journey with the first piece of the map in our hands. I appreciate the Minister’s tone in talking about the language as a means of uniting our communities, and that we need a national effort, not just Government policy, in order to deliver that. You’ve emphasised in your responses how inherently important the early years are in creating Welsh speakers...
Jeremy Miles: May I start by saying that I look forward now to seeing the publication of the strategy? I hope that it will show the trace of the recommendations and the discussions had in the committee on the language strategy, and suggest specific steps that the Government will consider. Amongst those steps was the idea that this strategy will show the journey for us, for how we go from here, to achieving...
Jeremy Miles: I thank him for that answer. At the heart of the question of resilience, as we’ve just been discussing, is the question of well-being and productivity of the workforce, the ability to recruit and retain talent, and, at the heart of that, is the question of pay. So, does he join me in deploring the suppression of public sector pay by the UK Government and the impact that has on the Welsh...
Jeremy Miles: 6. What steps are being taken by the Welsh Government to assess the future resilience of devolved public services in light of the UK Government’s continuing policy of austerity? OAQ(5)0151(FLG)
Jeremy Miles: Thank you, First Minister. You will know that the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee has just published a report last week evaluating the performance of the UK and the devolved nations against their environmental targets and noting improvements in Wales in the waste and industrial sectors, but also noting an increase in emissions from business premises, homes and in the...
Jeremy Miles: 5. What steps are being taken by the Welsh Government to tackle greenhouse gas emissions? OAQ(5)0710(FM)[W]
Jeremy Miles: May I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for bringing this debate before us this afternoon, and for the opportunity to contribute to it? I’d like to thank Huw for his commitment in this area, which is well known to us all. At this point in the debate, my contribution will be on the basis that if you can’t come up with a new argument, at least you can reiterate good points made by others.
Jeremy Miles: In another language. But there are plenty of valid points that have already been made. Ategaf y pwyntiau roedd Huw Irranca-Davies yn eu gwneud, yn arbennig ynglŷn â gwneud effeithlonrwydd ynni yn fater o flaenoriaeth seilwaith cenedlaethol. Yr hyn sy’n mynd gyda hynny, ar un ystyr, yw’r ymdeimlad o genhadaeth genedlaethol ynglŷn â maint yr her y mae ef ac eraill wedi’i nodi. Rydym...
Jeremy Miles: We are invited in this debate to treat UKIP as having clean hands on the issue of immigration. We are invited to regard the fact that UKIP have been elected to this place as cleansing the stain of insinuation, dog whistle and bigotry—but they do not have clean hands. Getting elected to the Assembly does not erase the stain of former campaigns where they ran posters of refugees fleeing...
Jeremy Miles: I thank the Cabinet Secretary for the answer that he’s given, and for the time he’s given over to discussing with me issues in the economy of Neath and the region. He’ll know from those discussions that small businesses, as I’ve reported to him, often find Business Wales not to be user-friendly to small businesses, and to be overly-centralised. Yet, for larger businesses, at a...
Jeremy Miles: I second that.
Jeremy Miles: 7. Is Business Wales meeting the business support objectives of the Welsh Government? OAQ(5)0183(EI)
Jeremy Miles: Can I welcome the First Minister’s statement and the ‘Brexit and Devolution’ statement, which is a substantive and reasoned case, and advocates a new reality? It also, critically, has a tone of partnership in recognising that all parts of the UK want to make these new arrangements work after we leave the European Union. Could I ask the First Minister—? In his statement and in the...
Jeremy Miles: Can I also extend my condolences to those who lost their lives and lost their homes in the Grenfell Tower, which is an example of what happens when a society fails to protect the most powerless in the place where they should feel safest? Most of the questions I have have been answered. I have two outstanding questions. Firstly, what arrangements will be in place between the Welsh Government...
Jeremy Miles: Diolch, Llywydd. Today, in the Senedd, we commemorated the thirty-fifth anniversary of the end of the Falklands war, in which many young men went to defend the Falkland islands from attack by Argentina, and many lost their lives. Wales has played its part on the world stage in many ways, not least among them the contribution of our young people to our armed forces. Mae’r ddadl hon heddiw ar...
Jeremy Miles: Argentina has played a significant part in the history of Wales in the world. A little more than a century before the Falklands war, 153 pioneers left the shores of Wales for Patagonia, for the expanses of Chubut. There they formed a community that still, to this day, speaks and identifies as Welsh. The parliament they set up there gave Welsh women the vote in 1867, a full 51 years before...
Jeremy Miles: I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that reply. In its update to its report, the commission recognised there were ongoing discussions between the Welsh Government and the Co-operative College, in relation to co-operative education in schools, and described a model that was preserving the maintained status of schools also encouraged the spread of co-operative ethos and principles within the...
Jeremy Miles: 1. What steps are being taken by the Cabinet Secretary to implement the recommendations of the Welsh Co-operative and Mutuals Commission relating to ‘Education for Co-operation’? OAQ(5)0132(EDU)
