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5. Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Our National Mission (21 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Thank you very much to the Member for those questions and for listing the challenges. I’m sure she is eager too to celebrate the successes in our education system and all of the work being done in our classrooms on a daily basis to provide the best possible education for our young people. I’m sure that she would acknowledge that too. In terms of her specific questions, I'll do my best to...

5. Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Our National Mission (21 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: I thank the Member for his questions. He will know from my statement and from other statements that I have made that, closing the attainment gap between those students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers is a key priority for me, as I just outlined in the statement. He somewhat misrepresents the experience in relation to the attainment gap since the publication of the...

5. Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Our National Mission (21 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Dirprwy Lywydd, it's designed to be a useful tool for practitioners, providing a timeline for our plans and coherence across the portfolio. Our ambitions for education are unchanged: our national mission is to achieve high standards and aspirations for all, and we will do this by tackling the impact of poverty on educational attainment and supporting every learner. The document doesn't simply...

5. Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Our National Mission (21 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. Our national mission action plan was published in 2017. Since that time, we have made great strides in education. Amongst many other things, we are rolling out the Curriculum for Wales, implementing a new additional learning needs system, and establishing the commission for tertiary education and research. I am proud of what we have achieved, but we must continue to...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Discussions between Local Authorities and Schools (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: In the next financial year, the South Wales West region of the Member will receive £945 million in settlement funding, and Wales as a whole sees an increase of 7.9 per cent in settlement funding over last year on a like-for-like basis. These increases are higher than the vast majority of increases for local authorities over recent years, which shows the continuing priority that we as a...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Discussions between Local Authorities and Schools (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Local authorities are required by law to have an established school forum, and the purpose of a school forum is to help develop informed and confident dialogue between local authorities and their schools, including, importantly, on budgetary issues.

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Welsh-Medium Post-16 Education (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: I agree entirely with that. In the Member's own area, the Blaenau Gwent Welsh in education strategic plan includes specific targets and challenging targets, in the local context, to increase the number of post-16 learners studying Welsh as a subject and studying through the medium of Welsh in a wider range of subjects, including—and I'll just refer back to the question from Huw...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Welsh-Medium Post-16 Education (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Increasing opportunities allowing people to continue to learn through Welsh is crucially important. That's why we're investing additional funding to expand post-16 Welsh-medium delivery. We're doing this jointly with Plaid Cymru as part of the co-operation agreement.

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Cost-of-Living Pressures (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Well, I thank Joyce Watson for that important supplementary, and I recognise there's a particular challenge sometimes, as she was saying, for people going back to education perhaps later on in life. I know that she shares my pride in the fact that we are committed to making sure that, whether you're studying full time or part time, you have access to the same support pro rata, which I think...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Cost-of-Living Pressures (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Living costs should never be a barrier to studying at university, which is why, despite continuing budget pressures, the Welsh Government has ensured that the value of support has increased significantly by 9.4 per cent in line with the national living wage—news that was welcomed by National Union of Students Wales on behalf of its student membership.

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Commemoration of Eileen and Trefor Beasley (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Thank you very much to Adam Price for those important points. I acknowledge, of course, the important contribution made by campaigners such as Eileen and Trefor Beasley to the story of the language, and their stance has been very important in that history. I understand that there are calls, including today, to turn the property into a cultural centre of some sort. It's worth also considering...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Commemoration of Eileen and Trefor Beasley (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: The emphasis on the history of Wales in the new curriculum will give young people an opportunity to learn more about the history of our language. Due to the efforts of people like the Beasleys and others, the linguistic landscape of Wales has been transformed. Hundreds of organisations now provide Welsh-medium services.

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Educational Standards (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Peter Fox has asked for the facts. The facts are these: the funding that we received as a Barnett consequential from Westminster was passported fully on to local authorities, and not only that, it was increased through the education budget. So, in Wales, unlike what happens in Conservative England, where the budget for post-COVID intervention has completely disappeared, we have not...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Educational Standards (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Well, I think this is bold, coming from a member of the party that is the only party in Wales to campaign at an Assembly election to cut the education budget by 12 per cent. It's quite something. It is quite something, and it shows just how shallow their commitment to the facts is. Just to be— [Interruption.] You absolutely did, and it was defended by Andrew R.T. Davies subsequently. So,...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Educational Standards (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: The Welsh Government's education budget sets out our continued commitment to implementing our programme of educational reform, ensuring that educational inequalities narrow and standards rise.

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Higher Education Sector (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Well, I reject the premise of the question, and I'm not going to take any lessons on social partnerships from a Conservative. If you want to look to see what Conservatives do when they are asked to try and resolve disputes with trade unions, you can just look over the border. The answer is: they don't do anything to try and resolve them. The approach that we've—

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Higher Education Sector (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Yes, I know what you're asking and I'm describing to you the alternative universe in which a Conservative Government is asked to deal with these questions and fails. [Interruption.] In Wales, what we do is we work in social partnership, and I reject the description he gives of that. It is a respectful partnership; it is a transparent partnership. There are difficult issues to work through,...

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Higher Education Sector (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: Can I just say that the Member makes an important point in her question? I speak with UCU regularly in any event, but I was able to attend their conference, their congress, a couple of weeks ago, and to discuss with them at first-hand some of the concerns that they raised, and one of the points specifically that we touched on was, in fact, the innovation strategy. She asks about my position....

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Higher Education Sector (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill fulfils a programme for government commitment to place social partnership on a statutory footing in Wales. As it is a significant employment sector, we are keen to ensure that higher education is represented on the statutory social partnership council, and the Bill provides for that.

4. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Construction Skills (14 Mar 2023)

Jeremy Miles: I work very closely with the Minister for Economy, and our portfolios come together in this particular area. A significant amount of that is to make sure that the vocational qualifications we are offering are able to support the young people to do the jobs of the future. So, whether that's in relation to the vocational qualifications review, which is currently under way, or the investment...


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