Mike Hedges: First Minister, thank you for your response. I want to stress the importance of professional sport. Since March, professional sport in Wales has either not been playing or been played without spectators. Professional sports clubs like the Ospreys and Swansea City football club are major employers in Swansea, as well as their importance as ambassadors for the area and the provision of...
Mike Hedges: 2. Will the First Minister make a statement on Welsh Government support for professional sport? OQ55449
Mike Hedges: 9. Will the Counsel General outline the effect on Wales of trading with the European Union on World Trade Organization terms? OQ55450
Mike Hedges: What has the Welsh Government done to support older people who are living on their own during the pandemic?
Mike Hedges: Can I also thank the Minister for her statement? Can I start off by saying that I have serious concerns about how climate change is affecting the weather? Anyone who went to school in the 1970s will remember almost continual drizzle. Now, when it rains, we have torrential rain and flooding. There have been more British floods this year than the first 50 years of the last century, putting it...
Mike Hedges: Thank you, Minister. The importance of local Welsh-medium publications—Julie James, Rebecca Evans and myself do advertise on a monthly basis in our monthly Welsh-language publication, Wilia. So, what's the Minister doing in order to ensure the continuation of such publications?
Mike Hedges: Can I thank the Minister for that response? Some of us are suspicious of the way that the Treasury in Westminster distributes consequential funding to Wales, and what they include has a substantial effect on the Welsh budget. Will the Minister publish the amount of money to be provided, and the Treasury's calculation that produced the total for the consequential moneys provided to...
Mike Hedges: 5. Will the Minister indicate the additional funding that is expected as a result of spending by the UK Government in England in areas devolved to Wales? OQ55346
Mike Hedges: 1. Will the Minister provide an update on Welsh Government support for local Welsh-medium publications during the Covid-19 pandemic? OQ55349
Mike Hedges: Thank you, Llywydd. I was trying to find out where the unmute button was on the screen there. Can I say, before I start to address the first supplementary budget, I would like to make two very brief points, but I think they really are important? Firstly, I believe setting an initial budget and a supplementary budget are the most important things that the Senedd collectively does. Without...
Mike Hedges: I'd like to thank the Minister for that response. I would also like to publicly compliment those employed by local authorities and the third sector who have worked on homelessness, to ensure that those who do not want to sleep on the street do not have to. I am—I'm sure the Minister is—concerned that there are some, despite all the best efforts of local authorities and third sector...
Mike Hedges: I'll unmute myself again—sorry. Thank you, First Minister. The media has been crucial for coverage of both the good and bad news in these challenging times, and, sadly, the coverage of lives lost has not been limited to coronavirus, but also we have seen the shocking killing of George Floyd in America and the horrific knife attack in Reading over the weekend. During the floods earlier this...
Mike Hedges: 2. Will the First Minister make a statement on the support provided to local media by the Welsh Government in order to keep residents informed during the Covid-19 pandemic? OQ55303
Mike Hedges: 3. Will the Minister make a statement on how homelessness has been reduced since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic? OQ55304
Mike Hedges: For.
Mike Hedges: For.
Mike Hedges: Any decisions that we make now, we must make sure that there are opportunities for everyone to have their voice heard, to take part and to have a meaningful say. Thank you, Deputy Llywydd.
Mike Hedges: Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. Thank you very much for calling me in to take part in this debate. I'm going to look at the Welsh economy. It can be broken down into five parts: the essential economy, the bounce-back economy, the areas that can flourish with support, areas that require consumer confidence, and areas that will be very difficult to recover in the very short term. We know the essential...
Mike Hedges: First Minister, on 1 May you announced that the Welsh Government would fund an extra payment of £500 to social care workers in care homes and domiciliary care workers throughout Wales: 'This payment is designed to provide some further recognition of the value we attach to everything' that social care workers do to 'support both our NHS and our wider society.' My questions are: when will it...
Mike Hedges: Thank you, Presiding Officer. I would like to talk about animal welfare. Can I just say that Andrew Davies is speaking for very many of us in the Assembly when he talked about the need for Lucy’s law? I believe there is virtually unanimous support for bringing in Lucy’s law, and can I say that the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee would do anything that you ask of us...
