Vaughan Gething: .... I reject any suggestion, inference or otherwise, that this has been deliberately held up or, indeed, that this is simply hiding the dagger about a desire to get rid of patient voice and patient representation. Far from it. And when Members go through the detail of the Bill and the policy intent, I hope that some of the statements and accusations made and the suspicions that have been...
Rebecca Evans: ...particular report and formulating our own response, and understanding, really, what it would mean for us in a Welsh context. I would encourage you and any other Members with an interest to make representations to the education Minister to assist in formulating the response and formulating our ideas as to how we would react. Your point about cricket and branding I think is again very well...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...on Ford Bridgend in the near future, and at least before the summer recess, which would allow the Minister to update us on progress with the taskforce, and in particular in reference to the representations made to ensure that in the event of closure, the pensions and the redundancies are at least equal to those offered to Ford workers before, in the UK or in any plant in Europe, and that...
Suzy Davies: ...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 how many BAME people work in the public sector in total in Wales, let alone how many BAME women. Your Government intends to improve representation within Welsh...
Jeremy Miles: I thank the Member for his question. As he indicates in it, our relationship with the UK Representation to the EU is very good, so we were particularly puzzled and disappointed, if I can put it like that, by the unprecedented decision that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office appear to have taken. I should say, as context, that we have been provided as a Welsh Government with high-quality...
Alun Davies: I'm grateful to you, Presiding Officer. Minister, you, like me, will have seen the rather astonishing press reports this morning that the First Minister has not been provided with diplomatic support during his visit in Brussels. Now, like yourself and myself—we've both enjoyed the support of the diplomatic service of the United Kingdom, and I remember negotiating and discussing with David...
Helen Mary Jones: ...Transport for Wales? I'm sure their intentions here are good, but we won't persuade people to use those public transport services unless we make it as easy as possible for them to do so, and the representations that I'm receiving from constituents along that line, particularly where you have got the request stop issue, is that it isn't always easy, that you don't always get the guard...
Rebecca Evans: I absolutely agree with you and I'm glad that you feel that way as well. I really would urge you to be making those representations to the candidates for the new leader of the Conservative Party. Because I'm sure that—. Well, we're certainly on the same page and I would hope that they would be as well. And I do intend to come back to address some of the comments in relation to the...
Andrew RT Davies: ...but one says that this will be the biggest economic transition in modern times. That is a big, big move for the entire economy and the direction of Government, and in fairness, this statement does not do it justice, exactly how the Government proposes to make that move and that leap. I appreciate there have been announcements previously, but to actually upgrade its commitment to move to 95...
Leanne Wood: ...nutrition and live in homes that make them ill. According to the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, more than 120,000 deaths in the UK could have been prevented since 2012, had it not been for austerity. The Westminster Government's policies are killing people, and I won't apologise for saying that. Recent statistics from the End Child Poverty coalition show that almost one...
Hefin David: ...be no deal, I think, at this point, and that is why I'm saying we probably do need to support this. By the way, one thing I'd say about Gareth Bennett—Neil Hamilton's gone and Gareth Bennett's not here—he's promising, in his pitch for the leadership of UKIP, that he will have a referendum in every parliamentary term. God forbid we end up in that position. What's going to be next?...
Vaughan Gething: ...the review’s recommendations, the chief ambulance services commissioner has established a year-long amber review implementation programme. This is supported by a programme board, including representation from the national collaborative commissioning unit, the Welsh ambulance service, the NHS Wales Informatics Service and the Welsh Government. The programme board will manage and monitor...
Rebecca Evans: ...for EU citizens, we'll take into account what the Electoral Commission review will say and the Wales Electoral Coordination Board is involved in that work, and that's an opportunity to make those representations on behalf of those EU citizens based here in Wales who were denied the opportunity to take part in that election.
Leanne Wood: I want to raise the state of bus services in the Rhondda. I've received a number of representations from constituents about the deterioration in the frequency and quality of service. Many of the modern gold Stagecoach buses have been replaced by older and smaller models in many cases, and I've been informed that these buses have been reallocated to the Blackwood, Newport and Cardiff routes....
Jane Hutt: ..., because I think this is something where we are taking responsibility. But we, very fortunately, have got a faith communities forum here in Wales, and it's good that today, this morning, we had representation from not just Muslims—we had Sikh, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Bahá’í, Catholic Church, Church in Wales, Churches Together; we had everyone around the table, chaired by the First...
Helen Mary Jones: ...an incident on 1 May this year, when there was a very good-natured and very cheerful demonstration by climate change protesters outside this building, just as this Chamber was debating whether or not we would adopt the policy of a climate change emergency. Those protestors then wished to come in to view the debate from the public gallery. The public gallery at the time was largely empty,...
David Rees: ...legislative consent memorandum yesterday, and whilst this afternoon we've heard from the Minister the details of that amendment made in the Lords, with the timescales allowed to us, clearly we have not been able to provide a report on our consideration, but we are content to say that no further substantive points of scrutiny have arisen for us based upon the amendment we considered. I'd...
Helen Mary Jones: ...say it wants, and nobody is arguing that CAFCASS officers don't have to make some very difficult judgments in that regard, but can I ask the Counsel General today to look to see whether there are representations that he can make on behalf of the Welsh Government in the context of this review? Because we have, of course, a particular duty here to ensure that, when children in Wales are...
Helen Mary Jones: Can I thank the Counsel General for his response to Hefin David? I am sure he will understand that there will be a great many women in this category who will be disappointed to hear that he does not have—. And we must take his word, Llywydd, that he has given consideration to whether it was possible to take any action. Of course, the women bringing the case are optimistic about a possible...
Jeremy Miles: ...Counsel General has under the Government of Wales Act 2006 don't permit intervention in this particular set of circumstances, unfortunately. That's an assessment I've made subsequently, given the representations that the Minister made in the Chamber. However, the Welsh Government has subsequently written to the UK Government to press its concerns in relation to the UK Government's...
