Julie James: ...will significantly reduce the impact to a rider’s head during a collision. This can make the difference between a serious brain injury and a minor one. The second project has developed a junction alert system, which will soon to be trialled on Welsh roads. This project will be able to test the system in the peak motorcycling season, and by September, the company will have fully tested...
Kirsty Williams: ...me. Where people get it, it's delivering really well and making a fantastic difference for those children, but there is still a tendency in too many schools to formalise learning too soon in year 1 and year 2 and go back to old ways of delivering education. That's why I, last year, before I'd even seen this evidence, recognised there was more to do in the foundation phase, and we are...
Kirsty Williams: ...Davies for those observations and questions. I think it is important to recognise the role of the committee in this regard. When the committee looked at the curriculum, this was the committee's No. 1 recommendation: that we needed, as a Government, to address the professional learning needs of the staff, if the objectives of the curriculum were to be developed. I hope that the members of...
Julie James: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm very grateful to all Members for their reflections and insights on this important anniversary day. Turning to the amendments, we will be supporting amendment 1. The Welsh Government is strongly opposed to all forms of extremism, including far-right extremism. In 'Prosperity for All: the national strategy', we set out our ambition to work with...
Julie James: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Amendment 25 amends section 41 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, which will help supplement existing guidance given to a licensing authority by the Welsh Ministers so that it may include specific provision about matters to be taken into account by a licensing authority in deciding whether a failure to repay a prohibited payment or holding deposit affects a...
Suzy Davies: ...I suppose my first question has to be why you're not bringing forward a new Act to replace the outdated Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008, not least to protect the aims of your 2050 strategy for 1 million Welsh speakers, which hasn't been reflected elsewhere in the announcement you've made today. But at least that would be one way of securing access to Welsh-medium education at all ages....
Suzy Davies: ...thank them all for coming before the committee to give us their evidence. And as well as their worries about the overall amount available to schools, teachers and school leaders have been extremely alert to that visible disparity between councils and the invisibility of why those disparities are there. Despite the long-standing pupil funding gap, Welsh Conservatives signed up to this...
Vaughan Gething: I issued a written statement last week to alert Members to the new operating framework that I issued to assist NHS organisations to focus and plan in quarter 1. The framework described four levels of harm: harm from COVID-19 directly itself; harm from overwhelming the NHS and social care system; harm from reduction in non-COVID activity; and harm from wider societal actions that may flow from...
Adam Price: ...example, released on 24 April, one of the key metrics that has been set for evaluating relaxation measures is 'evidence that we can cope with the expected increase in healthcare needs for at least 14 days if the infection rate goes above 1 and the virus is spreading widely once again.' That sounds more as if it's pointing in the direction of managing the spread of the disease below a...
Motion NNDM7523 as amended: To propose that the Senedd: 1. Notes the Written Statement issued by the First Minister on 11 December 2020 about new levels of restrictions to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in Wales. 2. Welcomes the announcement of new alert levels in Wales that allow for the regional and local application of restrictions in response to the scientific evidence and...
Julie Morgan: We published revised care home visiting guidance on 1 February, which is consistent with the overarching guidance on alert levels for social care services. We are acutely aware of the impact on people’s well-being of prolonged separation from loved ones while visiting restrictions are in place. We will continue to keep the approach under close review.
Mark Drakeford: Today, Llywydd, as we start this sixth Senedd, the public health position in Wales has moved significantly forward, and we are now at alert level 2. The hard work of everyone across Wales, combined with our successful vaccination programme, means we continue to have the lowest coronavirus rates in the United Kingdom, at around 10 cases per 100,000 of the population, and a positivity rate that...
Mark Drakeford: Well, Llywydd, as I explained in answer to an earlier question, if we are able—and it's an 'if', isn't it—if we are able to move to alert level 1 at the end of this three-week review, then that will come with new possibilities for events to resume indoors and outdoors across Wales. When that happens, they will still necessarily have to observe the protections that we have against the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...and our top priority was always to enable children to return to face-to-face learning. The last Senedd approved previous amendments to the regulations that began the cautious, step-by-step move to alert level 3. Amendment regulations numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9, which are before us today, continued this incremental move to alert level 3 that was completed on 3 May. These have meant significant...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...in Wales, the delta variant brings a new level of uncertainty. It was in this context that the most recent review of the coronavirus restrictions took place, on 3 June. Whilst Wales is moving to alert level 1, as previously signalled, we will now do this in a phased way. Changes to the regulations from 7 June therefore focused on easing restriction on outdoor events and activities. The...
Vaughan Gething: ...has to take account of the position we find ourselves in, both with the path of easements that are being unlocked—and we're in a good position, having announced the phased move to go fully into alert level 1 over the next few weeks. That still means there will be some restrictions in place. We then need to think about the next stage of support for businesses, as I indicated in my first...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...rise in the number of delta variant cases brings a new level of uncertainty. Public Health Wales has reported that this more transmissible variant is now the dominant variant in Wales. The No. 11 amendment regulations before us today provided for Wales to move in part to alert level 1 from 7 June. We're moving to alert level 1 in a phased way rather than in one step. This reflects the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...north and south-east Wales into our communities in every part of Wales. Over the last fortnight, the coronavirus case rate and the positivity rate have more than doubled. Today, the case rate is 31.3 cases per 100,000 people. Cases are rising in almost every local authority area in Wales, driven by this fast-moving, highly transmissible variant. In Conwy, the rates are now approaching 100...
Rebecca Evans: ...recently announced an additional £2.5 million being made available to compensate those businesses, such as indoor attractions and wedding venues, who are still affected by the staged transition to alert level 1. The supplementary budget sets out the allocations which have been made to date. However, you'll be aware that, in the final budget, I did earmark up to £200 million of additional...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I move the motion before us today. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020 set out the legislative framework for the four alert levels described in the coronavirus management plan. Since February, and until recently, we have seen improvements in the situation in Wales. The number of cases of coronavirus and the...
