Results 441–460 of 7000 for speaker:Mr Simon Thomas OR speaker:Mr Simon Thomas OR speaker:Mr Simon Thomas OR speaker:Mr Simon Thomas OR speaker:Mr Simon Thomas OR speaker:Mr Simon Thomas OR speaker:Mr Simon Thomas

5. Topical Questions: Borth Zoo (15 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: 3. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on action taken to protect wild animals in Borth zoo near Aberystwyth, in light of the death of two of its wild cats? 62

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: I specifically, five years ago, challenged the appointment of Theodore Huckle.

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: I thought I'd finished and sat down, but shall I just carry on so that that can be read as an intervention? 

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: Exactly, because we’re not questioning the nomination process here. What we are questioning here is the fact that the Assembly should approve this nomination, which would then be passed to Her Majesty. That is something that should be agreed. If we’re only here to rubber-stamp these things then what’s the point of this debate? What is the point of the motion? What’s the point of a...

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: Well, I think—and I appreciate the Member might not have heard what I said—we have the Welsh constitution, which is that the Counsel General is an appointment of this Assembly. It has to be approved by this Assembly—recommended by the First Minister, appointed by Her Majesty, but approved by this Assembly. Now, you could make a coherent argument—I'm not saying you couldn't make a...

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: Thank you, Llywydd. The second reason why Plaid Cymru wants to change the system here is that we would want to see a system of pre-appointment hearings for a Counsel General. It is a system that is provided in those nations where law officials are appointed by the Congress—in the United States for example, where there is an open hearing. It is a system that has been experimented with in...

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: You were wrong five years ago when Theodore Huckle was appointed, and you are wrong today. When it comes to an Assembly decision and a parliamentary decision, I have every right to discuss this. It is included in the law of the land that you voted for, and that’s why we’re discussing it. 

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: That's why we're discussing it. It's in the law of the land—[Interruption.] The second—

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: Those who want to change the constitution should have changed the Wales Act. You had an opportunity in the House of Lords to change the Wales Act in order to remove the ability of this parliament to approve the appointment of the Counsel General. If you are so vocal, you should have done it elsewhere where you have another job to do. You clearly didn’t have an eye on the constitution at...

9. Motion to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty to appoint a Counsel General (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: I’m afraid that Plaid Cymru can’t agree to this motion in the current context at the moment. May I say, first of all, that I’m not questioning the ability or appropriateness of Jeremy Miles for this position in any way? Rather, I’m asking a more fundamental question as to why we are appointing a new Counsel General. I want to pay tribute to Mick Antoniw. I think he carried out the...

3. Business Statement and Announcement (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: I’d also like to welcome Julie James to her new role and congratulate her on her appointment and also thank Jane Hutt for the way in which she has dealt with all parties in this Chamber over many years. I very much hope that that tradition will remain in place. I have a few questions for Julie James, if I may. First of all, I note, differently to your predecessor, you have other...

2. Questions to the First Minister: The Wales and Borders Franchise (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: I thank the First Minister. I have read that statement, of course, which was released as a result of the fact that Arriva Trains Wales had withdrawn from the franchise process. Now, reading between the lines and the reports around that, that turns around the fact that Arriva had decided that there was no commercial value now in that franchise, including, of course, the metro and building upon...

1. Tributes to Carl Sargeant (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: Can I first of all extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Carl Sargeant, and particularly those on the Assembly estate who knew him very well and with whom he was also friends? I do that on behalf of myself and my Plaid Cymru colleagues here, but also the Plaid Cymru colleagues who are no longer here who worked with him in the past as well. I first came to know Carl, like...

2. Questions to the First Minister: The Wales and Borders Franchise (14 Nov 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: 9. Will the First Minister make a statement on preparatory work for the process of awarding the Wales and Borders franchise? OAQ51291

8. 8. Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit (25 Oct 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: Will the Member give way?

8. 8. Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit (25 Oct 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: I heard what he just said about how the roll-out will allow these issues to be ironed out, going forward. Can he understand, therefore, why we have it trialled in Torfaen and Flintshire here in Wales, and today, in fact, in the last 10 minutes, the Welsh Local Government Association has said, on the basis of those trials, it should be paused in Wales for reflection?

5. 5. Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal (25 Oct 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: Thank you very much. I was about to intervene on the Minister there when she concluded her comments, so I will make the comments that I’d intended to make there now. I’m grateful that she has just confirmed that she will retain the current moratorium, but also that she recognises that when the further powers do come to us here in the Assembly, it would be possible for the Government, if...

5. 5. Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal (25 Oct 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: I’m sure the Member is correct, and we are faced with this challenge of leaving the European Union and keeping our high environmental standards, and I think that’s a challenge of a country that has its Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 as a centrepiece of its legislation. In terms of protecting the environment, fracking will not help us either combat climate change or end...

5. 5. Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal (25 Oct 2017)

Mr Simon Thomas: That’s an important point, and I know that allowing test drilling in Scotland, where they’ve come out against fracking, means there are now legal cases pending, and you shouldn’t give people encouragement, if you like, or spend money, that they would then have a legal recourse against you. It’s better to ban completely, and I accept that point. We, in Plaid Cymru, have made our stance...


Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.

Whoops! There was an error.
Whoops \ Exception \ ErrorException (E_CORE_WARNING)
Module 'xapian' already loaded Whoops\Exception\ErrorException thrown with message "Module 'xapian' already loaded" Stacktrace: #2 Whoops\Exception\ErrorException in Unknown:0 #1 Whoops\Run:handleError in /data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/theyworkforyou/vendor/filp/whoops/src/Whoops/Run.php:433 #0 Whoops\Run:handleShutdown in [internal]:0
Stack frames (3)
2
Whoops\Exception\ErrorException
Unknown0
1
Whoops\Run handleError
/vendor/filp/whoops/src/Whoops/Run.php433
0
Whoops\Run handleShutdown
[internal]0
Unknown
/data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/theyworkforyou/vendor/filp/whoops/src/Whoops/Run.php
    /**
     * Special case to deal with Fatal errors and the like.
     */
    public function handleShutdown()
    {
        // If we reached this step, we are in shutdown handler.
        // An exception thrown in a shutdown handler will not be propagated
        // to the exception handler. Pass that information along.
        $this->canThrowExceptions = false;
 
        $error = $this->system->getLastError();
        if ($error && Misc::isLevelFatal($error['type'])) {
            // If there was a fatal error,
            // it was not handled in handleError yet.
            $this->allowQuit = false;
            $this->handleError(
                $error['type'],
                $error['message'],
                $error['file'],
                $error['line']
            );
        }
    }
 
    /**
     * In certain scenarios, like in shutdown handler, we can not throw exceptions
     * @var bool
     */
    private $canThrowExceptions = true;
 
    /**
     * Echo something to the browser
     * @param  string $output
     * @return $this
     */
    private function writeToOutputNow($output)
    {
        if ($this->sendHttpCode() && \Whoops\Util\Misc::canSendHeaders()) {
            $this->system->setHttpResponseCode(
                $this->sendHttpCode()
[internal]

Environment & details:

Key Value
p 23
pid 10675
q speaker:10675 speaker:10675 speaker:10675 speaker:10675 speaker:10675 speaker:10675
empty
empty
empty
empty
Key Value
PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PHPRC /etc/php/7.0/fcgi
PWD /data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/theyworkforyou/www/docs/fcgi
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN 0
ORIG_SCRIPT_NAME /fcgi/php-basic-dev
ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED /data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/docs/search/index.php
ORIG_PATH_INFO /search/index.php
ORIG_SCRIPT_FILENAME /data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/docs/fcgi/php-basic-dev
CONTENT_LENGTH 0
SCRIPT_NAME /search/index.php
REQUEST_URI /search/?p=23&pid=10675&q=speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675
QUERY_STRING p=23&pid=10675&q=speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675
REQUEST_METHOD GET
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING p=23&pid=10675&q=speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675+speaker%3A10675
REDIRECT_URL /search/index.php
REMOTE_PORT 47106
SCRIPT_FILENAME /data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/docs/search/index.php
SERVER_ADMIN webmaster@theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT /data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/docs
CONTEXT_PREFIX
REQUEST_SCHEME http
DOCUMENT_ROOT /data/vhost/matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/docs
REMOTE_ADDR 3.146.206.246
SERVER_PORT 80
SERVER_ADDR 46.235.230.113
SERVER_NAME matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache
SERVER_SIGNATURE
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, br, zstd, deflate
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
HTTP_ACCEPT */*
HTTP_CONNECTION close
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO https
HTTP_X_REAL_IP 3.146.206.246
HTTP_HOST matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org
SCRIPT_URI http://matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/search/
SCRIPT_URL /search/
REDIRECT_STATUS 200
REDIRECT_HANDLER application/x-httpd-fastphp
REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI http://matthew.theyworkforyou.dev.mysociety.org/search/
REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URL /search/
FCGI_ROLE RESPONDER
PHP_SELF /search/index.php
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT 1732547364.75
REQUEST_TIME 1732547364
empty
0. Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler