Bethan Sayed: Diolch. This being Carers Week, as has been exemplified, it's an important opportunity for us to have this debate, one that deeply affects the lives and experiences of so many people, so I thank you for bringing this debate forward. I myself brought forward a motion on young carers last summer. And just last week, I had the pleasure of welcoming some young carers from Swansea YMCA and Cardiff...
Bethan Sayed: Thank you for arranging this debate today, and I'd like to thank all the team supporting the committee as well, because I think this was a really important piece of work. And, to put on the record, I think what I found most valuable was talking to people at the various locations that we visited—homeless people who could give us their everyday life experience of living on the streets....
Bethan Sayed: I wonder whether you could give us some statistics as to what is happening in terms of stop and search of young people here in Wales. The research I’ve seen shows that young people tend to want to break the law or participate in criminal activity because they have been treated poorly by the police because of stop and search. There are also various sectors of society that are more likely to...
Bethan Sayed: Plaid Cymru has been calling for this action to be taken for some time, and I'm pleased and grateful to the Minister for introducing this Bill and for the advance notice she gave us of this information. And I'd like to thank her for taking the time to discuss this with me last week, although I haven't read everything yet in relation to the explanatory memorandum, but I will be taking it...
Bethan Sayed: I wonder whether we could have a statement on how the Welsh Government is promoting the arts in international festivals worldwide. I ask because I've had representation from a poet currently living in Brittany, originally from Wales, who is interested in the promotion of Wales at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany. Seventy thousand people go to that festival. In 2006, it was...
Bethan Sayed: Thank you for that reply. There's been understandable concern regarding the tender for the review of evidence into NRW's shooting review. I understand that only one application was received and that one of the two academics employed to carry out the work is a self-admitted shooting enthusiast. I understand that NRW is, of course, an arm's-length body, but I and others have concern over the...
Bethan Sayed: 5. Will the First Minister provide an update on Natural Resources Wales's review into shooting on land that it manages? OAQ52335
Bethan Sayed: Will you take an intervention? I just wanted to ask if you could perhaps comment on some of the ideas that we have brought to you today. I have listed one in Aberdeen. Siân has listed one in Ogwen. Llyr has listed one in Wrexham. If you could give us an idea as to what you think of their potential, so that, potentially, we can try to look at a national company when you think it may be more...
Bethan Sayed: I think it would only be fair for me today to begin to note, again, as Simon Thomas has already said, an enormous missed opportunity we've seen in Swansea bay lately. This isn't just about the energy benefits that a lagoon could have brought, if it is to be rejected, but it's also about another example in a long line of examples where a London Government has ignored Wales, erased Wales out of...
Bethan Sayed: Okay. Thank you for that. It is helpful, because we are given to understand that the current position in terms of Welsh Government-owned land is that you've made a decision not to allow Baglan Moors to be developed for a new prison. Of course, we welcome that. The legal advice that we've received as an office states that the UK Government could enforce compulsory purchase, but from my...
Bethan Sayed: Thank you for that answer. The exact parameters of what will be devolved and what will become newly reserved in terms of common framework policies under the terms of the EU withdrawal Bill have not been formally established, and what we do know is that the 24—now 26—areas acquiring common frameworks could increase without our consent. Wales has, of course, the courts to deal with these...
Bethan Sayed: Thank you for that response. As I have said previously in posing questions to you, this sector is very important. Recently, I went to the Resolven miners centre to see what they're trying to do to renew that centre. It will take quite a bit of work, not just funding but also actual physical work from local people. Without having emergency funding to try to renew it, it will potentially close...
Bethan Sayed: 7. Will the Cabinet Secretary outline the Welsh Government's support for heritage and culture tourism in Wales? OAQ52278
Bethan Sayed: 2. What advice has the Counsel General provided to the Welsh Government on any future litigation arising from jurisdiction conflicts, as a result of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill? OAQ52281
Bethan Sayed: 3. What advice has the Counsel General provided regarding the compulsory purchase of Welsh Government-owned land by the UK Government? OAQ52277
Bethan Sayed: The park home issue is an issue that does divide opinion, and I remember this well from my time on the Petitions Committee, where we had quite a debate at the time, a few years ago, from those who were park home residents and from those who run park homes. This is where we're at now, I think, in relation to this statement. So, there is a direct conflict, I think, between those running the...
Bethan Sayed: Over recess, we saw the company Lush come out to support the Spy Cops campaign, which is a campaign to uncover the fact that many police officers, emanating from the 1980s to this day, were infiltrating campaign groups here in Wales and across the UK, impregnating women and having sexual relationships with women without them knowing that this was the case. Now, I wanted to understand what the...
Bethan Sayed: It was on the power plant that I wanted to ask further because, of course, I met with Tata and they said that they've obviously completed phase 1, but they've got three other stages to complete with regard to the replacement of the power plant, and we're talking here about US steel tariffs. Surely investment now is critical in the power plant in Port Talbot to ensure that we mitigate against...
Bethan Sayed: I’d like to welcome this statement today. When I was elected in 2007 as the then youngest Member—Jack and Steffan have taken that from me since then—I immediately started campaigning for a real youth parliament for Wales. I respected the fact that Funky Dragon was in operation, but I wanted something parliamentary in this Parliament, so that there was a separate structure and so that...
Bethan Sayed: Thank you for putting the question down today. I think we need to ask if the system is now fit for the future. It was clear at Grenfell that risks were not taken as seriously as they should have been and that safety was put on a secondary footing to cost in some key respects. I'd like to ask how the £400 million announced by the UK Government for cladding removal and building upgrades in...
