Jenny Rathbone: It's good to know that the resources of the public and private are being combined, but I have a query really as to why, when we've had so much high-class development on the Central Square site, which is the site of the former bus station, it hasn't been possible to fund the bus station out of the section 106 delivery mechanisms that the council will have levered out of private developers who...
Jenny Rathbone: 2. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the role of the metro delivery partnership in delivering integrated transport for Cardiff? OAQ52083
Jenny Rathbone: I'm very pleased, and I very much welcome the hardwiring of the well-being goals and the ways of working of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 into the planning policy for Wales, and into the national development framework. In the light of that, I wonder if you can say a little bit more about its development plan status and whether it enables you to do some of the...
Jenny Rathbone: The National Union of Students report 'Class dismissed: Getting in and getting on in further and higher education' is, I think, an important contribution to a debate that needs to concern us all, because, in light of these drop-out figures and the skills challenge that are posed by the fourth industrial revolution, we need to be raising the skills base of all our young people to respond to...
Jenny Rathbone: 7. What is the Welsh Government’s response to the latest NUS research highlighting that the highest university dropout rate is amongst working class students? OAQ52076
Jenny Rathbone: I'm very pleased to hear that we have cross-party support for this really significant subject, because when the going gets tough—and it will get tough—when we start actually introducing measures, we know that we have people in our own parties, and indeed in the wider community, who are still living in the second half of the twentieth century, and we have to start getting people to...
Jenny Rathbone: On this same subject, which obviously is of great interest to me, could you explain why it's been necessary for the Welsh Government to intervene with this proposed metro delivery partnership, given that a huge number of commercial companies have benefited from relocating to Central Square and I would have expected them to make the planning gain necessary to build the bus station as a...
Jenny Rathbone: As David Rees has already said, the promise during the referendum was that we would be no worse off if we left the European Union, and it's up to the UK Parliament to ensure that whatever deal is agreed by Mrs May, and she brings back to the UK Parliament, meets those criteria. Otherwise, they ought to know what to do with it. What our job is is to articulate the needs of Wales and how Wales...
Jenny Rathbone: I very warmly welcome your commitment to allow misoprostol to be administered at home. That's excellent news. I just wondered if you could elaborate on what work your officials will need to do and the timescale for doing it, as we're not talking about revising the Abortion Act, we're talking about extending the location of where a medical abortion can be administered, namely at home. As...
Jenny Rathbone: Diolch. One of the lessons of this whole situation is we mustn't reinvent the wheel. Just looking at the strategy that you're adopting for delivering this manifesto pledge, which is targeting working parents of three and four-year-olds, we clearly need to prioritise those families who want to work but can't afford to work at the moment, and who will become eligible as soon as they can get...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you, Presiding Officer. I just wanted to add my support for Simon Thomas's call for a statement on the disgraceful scandal of the treatment of the Windrush generation, and I just wanted to add some additional points. It is a reminder of the endemic racism in our society. I don't recall reading of any people from New Zealand or Australia being caught up in the way the immigration rules...
Jenny Rathbone: Cardiff residents have been waiting over a decade for a new station and this is becoming an issue that is really making people feel very aggrieved. Last year, I was told by Rightacres that the development of the bus station would happen in January this year. Obviously, nothing yet has happened. I hear you say it's now going to happen this year. I'm just really concerned about the constant...
Jenny Rathbone: What plans does the Welsh Government have to revise building regulations to require new houses to be built to energy standards that meet carbon reduction targets?
Jenny Rathbone: Well, I rather agree with Neil Hamilton on this, in that it's really important that, whatever measures we're introducing, we cannot afford to give the impression that only those who speak Welsh can be working in the Welsh NHS, because that would be a very dangerous path to travel. I welcome the measure; a long time in gestation, but now we need to give birth to this baby. Therefore, I will...
Jenny Rathbone: What you've just told us about the challenge to the Scottish decision is very interesting. It's difficult to understand in the context of what we're asking women to do is to take this pill and then go home on the bus and have the miscarriage on the bus, and I can't see how this in their best interests, or indeed prudent healthcare. So, I'd be very interested to know what action you think...
Jenny Rathbone: The Buurtzorg model of self-determining small teams in charge of a group of citizens who need social care seems to me a really interesting way of improving and reshaping services to better meet people's needs. I'm particularly interested in the way in which around 900 teams in the Netherlands, which is obviously where this system has started, are now supported by no more than 50...
Jenny Rathbone: 3. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on progress in developing the Buurtzorg pilots of neighbourhood nursing care in Wales? OAQ51901
Jenny Rathbone: Section 21 gives bad landlords a charter for continuing to poorly maintain their properties, because I've had several cases of tenants being evicted simply because they've asked for the leaking roof to be repaired, or the faulty lock to be repaired, and this is no way of treating people who otherwise behave completely appropriately. But it also—if they think they might be moved on at the...
Jenny Rathbone: I just wonder, then, if you can explain why it is that we still send women to prison for not paying a television licence. I'm not suggesting that they shouldn't pay their television licence, but there have to be alternative ways of making them comply.
Jenny Rathbone: Populist as opposed to effective penal policies are not the sole preserve of the Tory party. During the last Labour Government, I worked in Holloway prison and I vividly recall the then Home Secretary cancelling a children's Christmas party simply in response to some lurid newspaper headlines that completely ignored the needs of children. We constantly had to remind ourselves that the mantra...
