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Lord Murphy of Torfaen: ...I went to Port Talbot steelworks on many occasions. On those occasions, I saw a very close relationship with the trade unions and the representatives of the workforce. It seems to me that they have been completely left out of making the case for changes in Port Talbot. After all, 3,000 jobs have been lost—a terrible price to pay for what the Minister referred to as a “triumph” in...
Roger Gale: Ann Clwyd had many friends across the House, and I am proud to have been allowed to call myself one of them. Question put and agreed to. House adjourned.
Roger Gale: Ann Clwyd had many friends across the House, and I am proud to have been allowed to call myself one of them. Question put and agreed to. House adjourned.
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...does not accept that the draft regulations present any issue in respect of accessibility of the law, we note that the explanatory memorandum, as the Minister has said—and we welcome that—has been amended so as to include a list of all the bodies currently captured by the definition at Schedule 4 to the regulations. And briefly, our second merits reporting point noted that the Welsh...
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage: ...levelling-up goals, but which will reach neither the great cities of the north or central London? He said that HS2 “would not realise the full benefits of the line and communities will have been enormously impacted for no great benefit”.—[ Official Report, Commons, 18/9/23; col. 1109.] Back in March, when reports of a delay emerged, I told the House that this chronic indecision was...
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage: ...the Minister for her very prompt letter, which she sent today, setting out the details of this contract. But I am sure that beleaguered passengers on the failing west coast rail services must have been baffled to see the companies that run them being rewarded for that failure with lucrative government contracts. The latest ORR rail performance stats from August 2023—only a month...
Sioned Williams: ...eligible refugees being refused travel on public transport, which has led to discriminatory treatment and, in some cases, racist attacks. Minister, could you update the Senedd on what action has been taken by the Government since I raised this with you to ensure that refugees aren't experiencing humiliation and racism when trying to access the free public transport for which they are...
Catherine West: ...in Hornsey and Wood Green who are furious at yet another bank branch closure—this time the Halifax in Muswell Hill, coming just a couple of months after the Halifax closure in Crouch End. I have been contacted by an 80-year-old resident who told me that they have been a victim of fraud and are anxious about online banking. Similarly, a disabled resident told me that they rely on counter...
Natalie Elphicke: .... The petitioners state that, “the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, at long last, finally recognised that older, poorer, clinically dependent people and children in Deal and Walmer have been inadequately provided for following the closure of blood testing services and the hospital in October 2021”, and notes that it is “yet to reinstate the blood testing services at Deal...
Catherine West: ...in Hornsey and Wood Green who are furious at yet another bank branch closure—this time the Halifax in Muswell Hill, coming just a couple of months after the Halifax closure in Crouch End. I have been contacted by an 80-year-old resident who told me that they have been a victim of fraud and are anxious about online banking. Similarly, a disabled resident told me that they rely on counter...
Natalie Elphicke: .... The petitioners state that, “the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, at long last, finally recognised that older, poorer, clinically dependent people and children in Deal and Walmer have been inadequately provided for following the closure of blood testing services and the hospital in October 2021”, and notes that it is “yet to reinstate the blood testing services at Deal...
Bob Blackman: ...the election. He was a very young man and it happened suddenly. It was a tragedy for all concerned, especially his family. I extend my sympathy to the hon. Lady. The benefit of these debates has been shown by the contributions—local, national and international—made by Members from across the Back Benches. I will take back to the Backbench Business Committee the desire for the whole...
Bob Blackman: ...the election. He was a very young man and it happened suddenly. It was a tragedy for all concerned, especially his family. I extend my sympathy to the hon. Lady. The benefit of these debates has been shown by the contributions—local, national and international—made by Members from across the Back Benches. I will take back to the Backbench Business Committee the desire for the whole...
Baroness Twycross: ...it is not just the number of schools affected by RAAC that matters: it is the lost learning, lost opportunity and disruption to pupils. Can the Minister confirm how many children’s education has been disrupted and how many of these are in their exam years? How will lost learning be made up for to ensure that children are not left behind?
the Earl of Courtown: My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, for this short debate, which has been fascinating. He has quite rightly gone into some detail on this issue, and I hope I will be able to explain part of the thinking behind our inclusion of Clause 14 in the Bill. However, as the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, suggested, once I have read Hansard I will ensure that, if we do not feel we have not gone...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...some improvements in terms of mental health performance as well, so I'm very pleased that that has happened. Eighty-four per cent of adults had their assessments done within 28 days, so that's not a bad figure compared to 73 per cent in February. So that's something I think, again, we should be celebrating, and there has been improvement also in relation to child mental health since...
Paul Blomfield: ...were a number of common themes from both sides of the House. I know the Minister knows that his response does not go far enough and that we are in danger of reversing the achievements that have been made in widening participation in post-school education. I hope that our reports will be helpful to him, as the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr Walker) pointed out, in making the case to his...
Lord Thurlow: ...a rating assessment formally inevitably requires that small business, possibly teetering on the edge of survival, to instruct a rating specialist to advise it at a fee. Only when there has been a challenge is the valuation office required to reveal its evidence. Why on earth do we tolerate this opaque behaviour on the part of a government agency? It is fundamentally wrong, and I...
Lord Thurlow: Before the Minister sits down, perhaps I might clarify something I said that, I think, might have been misunderstood. In the context of Amazon—I am sorry to use a particular company, but we all know what I mean by it—I did not say that I wanted to redefine the way in which the non-domestic rating system works; I simply want to redefine the use of the property. A property such as an Amazon...
Mick Antoniw: ...we send out in terms of our ambitions for Wales and for the people of Wales. It's largely irrelevant what Westminster would say about this, because this is something we have had to decide. We have been having these debates within our own environment. It is a local decision, it is a local constitutional reform that we feel we need to make, and all I think we'd say to Westminster is, 'Well,...
