4. Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Taith — Delivering Wales's innovative international learning exchange programme

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:37 pm on 18 October 2022.

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Photo of Alun Davies Alun Davies Labour 3:37, 18 October 2022

I'm grateful to you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm grateful to the Minister also for his statement this afternoon. I very much welcome this from the Welsh Government, and I'm sure that you'll find a very warm welcome in Brussels as well. This is something that's been brought up with me a number of times, when I've been visiting Brussels over recent months, and there is an overwhelming welcome from the EU institutions that Wales remains fully engaged, and ensures that our young people have the same opportunity to travel and to visit and to study overseas and across our continent, in the way that their parents did, and we can't take that away from people.

But can you also assure me that this opportunity extends to everybody across all the different settings and across different geographies and demographics? I'm particularly interested in what the Minister had to say about further education and about youth services, because I want to ensure that everybody, every young person I represent in Blaenau Gwent, has the same opportunity to participate in these schemes, and the same opportunity to enjoy the international travel and study, and to learn in the same way as we did some years ago.