7. Debate on Petition P-05-828 Presumption in Favour of Rural Schools

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:43 pm on 21 November 2018.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 5:43, 21 November 2018

Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary for taking the intervention and thank you for the determination that you made in respect of Ysgol Llanbedr in my own constituency, a school that the local authority had planned to close, but I was very grateful for your determination to keep that particular school open? I think the one concern about the determination process, if I may, is the length of time that it sometimes takes for Welsh Ministers to actually consider the evidence that is before them. I wonder if you could comment on how that can be reduced in order to take away the uncertainty that that can cause for small schools when such determinations are being considered.