Suzy Davies: Will you take an intervention?
Suzy Davies: I'm happy to say that we'll be supporting amendment 13, as we did with a very similar amendment at Stage 2, where it went to a tied vote. One of the inconsistencies with the draft Bill, I thought, was that there was a failure to define key concepts, which did strike me as a little bit unfortunate when we were talking about a Bill that is about making Welsh law, in both languages, easier to...
Suzy Davies: First of all, can I just begin by supporting Dai Lloyd's request for a statement on the city deal? It's two and a quarter years since that was announced for the Swansea bay city region, and the general feeling is that we don't seem to have got much further and we're still at the talking stage. I'd like, if I could, to ask for two statements in Government time—before the end of this session,...
Suzy Davies: The next item is the Brexit Party debate on leaving the European Union, and I call on—who's starting the debate? Mark Reckless. I'm sorry. I call on Mark Reckless to move the motion.
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much. The proposal is to note the committee's report. Does any Member object? Therefore, the motion is agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Minister. And I call on Janet Finch-Saunders to reply to the debate.
Suzy Davies: I call on the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths.
Suzy Davies: Okay. Well, the research for that has come from the work of Dr Elin Jones, who did the preliminary work for the Cwricwlwm Cymreig back in 2013 and 2015, and there's much more recent evidence that has come from Martin Johnes, I think, from Swansea University, which shows that, while that is available to teachers to teach, the huge majority of them don't pick up on those modules. And the huge...
Suzy Davies: I'm really—. In six minutes, there's no way I'm going to be able to give everybody good justice in this one. But I'm really pleased that this was accepted for debate today. I can't think of the last time I enjoyed a debate as much, as well as actually learning from it. I suppose the question should be why we're having it at all, and, actually, it struck me, having followed some of the...
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Llywydd, and thank you to everyone.
Suzy Davies: We will be supporting this motion to annul these regulations, not on the basis of their content, but because of the fact that the scrutiny role of the Assembly has been ignored. Personally, I feel that it’s easy for practitioners to adhere to the regulations—someone else is paying for them and they're not challenging. I don't want to impose standards on small businesses, even directly,...
Suzy Davies: I agree with Bethan Sayed that once an institution, whether it's an autonomous body or not, is in receipt of public funds, it has an accountability to this place, either through yourself or through us directly. I just want to follow up on the comments you made about the conversations that you've had with HEFCW, because, actually, I think this is where, as an Assembly, we can be asking some...
Suzy Davies: Thank you for your answer to David Rees then. I'm just thinking about how you can work with NRW with other portfolios within Government as well as tourism and where these possibilities can intersect with each other. In January, I asked you whether you thought there was an opportunity for Natural Resources Wales to work with schools so that children and young people could play a part in...
Suzy Davies: Will the Minister provide an update on support for farmers in South Wales West?
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much, Minister and Members.
Suzy Davies: The next item is the statement by the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs on clean air. I call on the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths.
Suzy Davies: Finally, Joyce Watson.
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Trefnydd. I wonder if I could ask for two items, please, the first being a letter to all Assembly Members, perhaps from you, actually, but I'm not 100 per cent sure who, about why the consultation document—this document—on amending the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Budget Motions and Designated Bodies) Order 2018—I know it doesn't sound very exciting—isn't on the Government...
Suzy Davies: Thank you for that, and I welcome the work that we're starting to see on this now. I hope you'll join with me in welcoming the news that Neath Port Talbot, in my region, is the first local authority to sign up to the FairPlay Employer scheme to tackle the gender pay gap. But we do have other pay gaps as well, including with the BAME community, and Welsh Government was not able to say recently...
Suzy Davies: 1. Will the Deputy Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's equality policies? OAQ54081
