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Jeremy Miles: ...teachers and schools more generally, so that we can standardise—as best we can, given the variance in schools—that we standardise the experience across schools. And she will know that work has been ongoing to raise awareness of the Welsh language, for example, in initial teacher training. But I also believe that this now has an important role in co-ordinating with the work of the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...to go and visit the emergency department over the summer. The sense I got was that the atmosphere is changing there and that they're in a different place. They seemed far more buoyant than they had been in the past. That, for me, was the beginning of something far more positive. One of the things I'm concerned about is that actually there's not enough of an alternative to the emergency...
Carolyn Thomas: ...that, will it impact on any consequentials coming to Wales, and will it impact on what we're trying to do, which is really important? And the extended producer responsibility legislation, has that been scrapped now, on the back of this? Thank you.
Lesley Griffiths: Well, this hasn't 'literally been foisted on them'. The introduction of the 20 mph speed limit has been very well documented for a long time, and I'm very aware that Welsh Government has had a letter from Stagecoach saying the exact opposite. Now, with most of these policy areas, of course, you get opposing information coming forward. So, I think it's very important that we remember that the...
Mark Drakeford: ...be only too glad to know of them and to put those things right—of course we would. I don't know the detail of the individual cases the Member has raised. He says that that £250,000 could have been spent on education services or housing services for his local population. I presume—but, again, I don't know the detail—that that £250,000 has been spent keeping them safe on bridges that...
Mark Drakeford: ...very much with the points that Huw Irranca-Davies has made. Whenever I have met Japanese ambassadors—and I think this will be the third ambassador to the United Kingdom during the time that I’ve been First Minister—they are always hugely supportive of the companies that are here in Wales, but also the efforts that have been made to support those families who come from Japan and are...
Mark Drakeford: I thank the Member for the question, Llywydd. RAAC-related loss of beds at Withybush has placed additional pressures on the hospital's A&E services. These have been mitigated by the huge efforts of staff at the hospital. Glangwili A&E department faces pressures in common with all health services, but has achieved a significant reduction in ambulance handover times this calendar year.
Mark Drakeford: Well, Llywydd, I thank Alun Davies for that. I think I just need to repeat the point I made in my opening response to Adam Price, that the Bill is a Bill—yes, the practical work on it has been done inside the Government, but the Government was carrying forward the report of a Senedd committee, as endorsed by Members here, and there was no reference to recall in that report. If the Senedd,...
Mark Drakeford: ...'s borne out by any serious analysis. I continue to believe that one of the strongest cases for the United Kingdom is that, in the right hands, it acts as a great engine for redistribution. It's not been in the right hands, clearly, in recent years, and one of the reasons why this child poverty strategy in Wales is published in that difficult context is that the Office for Budget...
Mark Drakeford: Well, I thank Altaf Hussain for his recognition in starting his question about the success that has been created in the SA1 development. I think it is true everywhere that, if you are engaged in massive investment, and certainly the investments in Swansea have been on that scale, and will continue to be on that scale with further parts of the ambitious plan for the redevelopment of the city...
Russell George: First Minister, ever since I've been a Member of the Senedd, a constant issue raised with me is bus and rail services aligning with each other, and the issue, of course, of trains leaving a station just before a connecting bus service arrives. Now, I know that the Government is moving forward with transferring the management of the TrawsCymru service to Transport for Wales, with the...
Tan Dhesi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2023 to Question 198541 on NHS Trusts: Sexual Offences, for how long it has been a requirement that NHS organisations should have a policy on sexual misconduct; and what steps his Department takes to enforce this requirement.
Munira Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which organisations have been contracted by her Department to survey school buildings suspected to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; and when those contracts were entered into.
Stephanie Peacock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department are taking to support parents and guardians whose children have not been in a formal education environment for over six months due to special educational needs requirements.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students in Romford constituency have been diagnosed with special educational needs; and how many are waiting for a diagnosis as of 13 September 2023.
Nick Gibb: ...announced 24 Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIAs) who will receive up to £42 million to fund bespoke interventions to improve attainment at Key Stages 2 and 4. Where poor attendance has been identified as a key issue in an area, specific attendance initiatives are also being funded to address this. The Department has also launched a £2.32 million attendance mentor pilot which aims...
Nick Gibb: Closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils has been a Departmental priority underpinning all the Department’s education reforms since 2010. The attainment gap narrowed by 9% at secondary school level and by 13% at primary school level between 2011 and 2019. For over a decade, the Department has consistently taken a range of steps to give priority support...
Nick Gibb: ...bulk of funding is distributed through basic entitlement funding, which every pupil attracts regardless of their location or circumstances, in 2023/24 17.4% (£7.2 billion) of the schools NFF has been allocated through additional needs factors based on pupils’ level of deprivation, low prior attainment, English as an additional language and mobility. In 2023/24, the most deprived schools...
Nick Gibb: ...increases. On top of this core funding, the pupil premium, worth over £2.9 billion this year, continues to support schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Almost £5 billion has also been made available for education recovery programmes in early years, schools and colleges, especially focused on helping the most disadvantaged or vulnerable, wherever they live. The Department...
Nick Thomas-Symonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what has been the total cost to the public purse of services provided by Capita to administer the Turing Scheme.
