David Lloyd: Minister, in terms of tackling climate change and promoting sustainable transport, local authorities have a crucial role to play, naturally. Within the statement on the local transport fund last week, only a few local authorities were provided with funding for providing rapid charging points for electric vehicles. I was disappointed that there were no named developments in Neath Port Talbot...
David Lloyd: 3. What discussions has the Minister had with the Minister for Housing and Local Government regarding the capital funding provided to local authorities? OAQ53924
David Lloyd: 1. Will the Minister make a statement on promoting the Welsh language within South Wales West? OAQ53925
David Lloyd: 2. Will the Commission make a statement outlining the steps being taken to ensure that the Welsh Government lays documents before the Assembly in Welsh? OAQ53911
David Lloyd: Government powers, not Assembly powers.
David Lloyd: Well, let me help you out, Minister. Thank you for taking the intervention. [Laughter.]
David Lloyd: Can you confirm, then, that there is no loss of powers from this Assembly in terms of our scrutinising ability if we pass this LCM? Because I think there is. That's why we're against it.
David Lloyd: Thank you very much, Llywydd. On these benches we are gravely concerned about the Trade Bill in general terms and about the broad and destructive possibilities of having new trade deals with nations such as the USA that could undermine our public services entirely, as well as the foods that we eat on a daily basis. Who knows what they will look like? We're also concerned about the loss of...
David Lloyd: May I welcome this statement and may I thank the Minister for making this statement, and also welcome the broader vision set out here of having a global centre of rail excellence here in Wales? We are talking about a potential investment that is huge here, if we are to deliver that aspiration, and that vision is to be warmly welcomed, because we are talking about Onllwyn here, the Onllwyn at...
David Lloyd: Trefnydd, last Friday, I attended a public meeting in Cwmllynfell in Neath Port Talbot, along with other Members of this place, to discuss the closure of the medical surgery in the village—a decision that will ultimately be made by the Swansea Bay University Health Board. Although the surgery is located in Cwmllynfell, it’s part of the Amman Tawe partnership, which serves populations in...
David Lloyd: Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm very pleased to be able to contribute to this debate on young adult carers, and I move the amendment on the importance of respite care for young carers. Of course, Janet Finch-Saunders has described the landscape for young carers very well. I won't expand on that. But I'm also contributing this afternoon as the Chair of the Health, Social...
David Lloyd: Of course, we had some international examples from Jenny, and we do need to look to other countries for the excellent examples in some areas. And, of course, that’s what Suzy Davies started with in her contribution, and thank you to her for that, telling us about some past school lunches—I won't pursue that—but, of course, that international experience, in Finland, in particular, again...
David Lloyd: Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. May I thank everyone who has contributed to this important debate on healthy school meals? Of course, tackling the obesity agenda is vital, and one aspect of that is what is taking our attention this afternoon, namely healthy school meals, where, as the Minister has said, habits for life can be developed and built on—if they are good habits, of...
David Lloyd: Diolch, Llywydd. Coeliac UK is marking its annual awareness week this week. Coeliac disease is a serious lifelong autoimmune condition caused by a reaction to gluten in wheat, barley and rye. People diagnosed with the condition must stay gluten-free for the rest of their lives if they are to avoid very serious complications, yet, whilst one in 100 people are estimated to have coeliac...
David Lloyd: Following a very effective campaign by local residents, an application for a waste-to-energy incinerator in Llansamlet was thankfully rejected by Swansea council's planning committee last week. However, what has become apparent is that current Welsh Government policy on incinerators is not in keeping with the concerns of local people on air pollution, toxic ash and carbon dioxide,...
David Lloyd: 9. Will the Minister make a statement on tackling air pollution in South Wales West? OAQ53833
David Lloyd: Thank you very much, acting Chair, and I'm very pleased to contribute to this debate on an excellent report by the chief medical officer, and I move the amendment on air pollution. More on that in a moment. In terms of time, the other point I was going to focus on was immunisation against MMR—a fundamentally important point that the Minister has already referred to. Our chapel in Swansea...
David Lloyd: Yes, it's a matter to be welcomed, of course, but there are two points to make, though: of course, conservation is vitally important, and, of course, as David Melding has mentioned, health issues are also very important, and we also pay tribute to the Ramblers for promoting walking in our nation. It's a fairly easy way to keep fit. You don't need membership of any gym that costs thousands of...
David Lloyd: May I thank, first of all, the Deputy Minister for her statement, and, of course, I welcome the content of it, because the issue of the Wales coast path is one very much to be welcomed. It was an exciting development and it's a development that we have seen developing further over the last seven years, and we can look forward to seeing it continuing to develop year after year. Because there...
David Lloyd: I'm pleased to respond to this statement from the Minister, which gave an update on the dementia action plan. May I say, first of all, that I have been vice president of the Alzheimer's Society for many years, and I have also been vice president of Forget Me Not dementia clubs recently in Swansea? I also have personal experience of dementia over the past two years, following the death of my...
