Speeches by Davies.

“Hello to you both. Can I ask you first, Mark, to elaborate on the services that you provide to support the inward investment into Scotland?”

“Can I ask you the same question, Joe? What services do you provide and what funds the services that you do provide?”

“Do you have a link-in then with the Department of Trade and Industry here?”

“Does Scottish Development International fund all that or do you work with partners? I am just thinking about things like planning with the local authority, if you have the same system as we have in Wales where planning would come down to local authorities. Do you work with partners or is it wholly through Scottish Deve…”

“Last night, an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill introducing paid carer’s leave was debated in the House of Lords, where a Plaid Cymru colleague spoke from the experience of having been a young unpaid carer herself. In that debate, the Government Whip provided an update of the review into the Carer’s Leave Act 20…”

“The value of the 310,000 carers we have in Wales is £10 billion, so they are saving the Welsh economy—or the DWP here—£10 billion. Surely, we must have a system whereby carers, through the leave that they can receive, are empowered to apply for jobs that will give them the opportunity to work and care at the same time.…”

“Just a day before the new figures revealed yet another rise in child poverty in Wales, the UK Labour Government confirmed plans for billions of pounds-worth of welfare cuts, pushing tens of thousands more children into hardship. The Government tell me that the data is not robust enough to know the poverty impact on Wal…”

“13. What steps she is taking through the social security system to tackle poverty in Wales.”

“Diolch yn fawr, Dr Allin-Khan; it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. Of the so-called savings, £4.5 billion will come from restricting eligibility for the daily living element of personal independence payments. Restricting that will result in an average financial loss of £4,500 each for our constituents. P…”

“Property owners in my constituency, including the widowed, the elderly and those with health issues, have been threatened with extensive court costs because permission to enter land on manifestly unfair terms has been declined. The property developer has failed to properly explore cable ploughing, despite that method o…”

“Over the past few months, it has been one thing after another for the vulnerable, the sick and disabled people. The recently announced cuts to welfare will affect 6% of the population in Wales, according to Policy in Practice, punishing the sick and disabled. This Bill adds to that punishment by increasing state financ…”

“Rydych eisioes wedi sôn am gadarnleoedd y Gymraeg, a gan amlaf mae’r rheiny yng ngorllewin Cymru. Mae yna gadarnleoedd cryf yn datblygu yn y de nawr hefyd, yng Nghaerdydd yn arbennig. Beth ydych chi’n gweld yw rôl S4C fel yr unig sianel Gymraeg yn y byd? Ble’r ydych chi’n gweld hwnna i gyd yn cwympo? Beth yw’n rôl ni? …”

“Mae fy nghwestiwn ynglŷn ag ariannu S4C. Shwt ydych chi’n teimlo gallwn ni amddiffyn sefyllfa ariannol S4C, gan ystyried bod y Gweinidogion yn dweud bod y siarter yn cael ei adolygu diwedd y flwyddyn yma? Shwt ydyn ni’n gallu sicrhau ein bod ni’n ariannu’r sianel yn llawn, fel ein bod ni’n sicrhau dyfodol y sianel i ni…”

“Tiny follow-up, fel maen nhw’n ddweud. Ydych chi’n meddwl bod e’n ddiogel o ran y drefn sydd gennym ni ar hyn o bryd? (Translation) A tiny follow-up question: do you think that it is secure in the current system?”

“Former Midland bank and HSBC workers who had a defined-benefit pension saw deductions from their pension entitlement at state pension age, to take account of the payment of the state pension. Those deductions had no link to salary or pension received. Lower-earning staff members, mostly women, were particularly affecte…”

“Diolch yn fawr, Madam Dirprwy Lefarydd. I would like to follow up on a question from the hon. Member for Brycheiniog, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick), because unlike at Scunthorpe, jobs at Port Talbot are not being saved. The Government say that instead, they will retrain workers through the employment and skills …”

“Yes, potentially.”

“Water is a magnet for our teenagers in the summer, is it not? They seem to be drawn to it. We all know they should not do it, but you cannot stop them, even if you fence it off. We had one tragedy in Llandybie a few years ago. Nobody wants to go there, I can tell you. I have one very quick question. How can we stop thi…”

“I am going to do a very quick follow-up before I go on to Ffos-y-Fran and Glan Lash, which is within my constituency. A figure of £600 million has been bandied about. It does not seem a lot, to me, for the number of coal tips that we have within Wales. Just very quickly, is it enough? Is that a figure that has been cal…”

“The next question is to Haf and Daniel. You seem to be having the vast majority of these questions; I am sorry. As I said, Glan Lash is within my constituency. We all know what is happening at Ffos‑y‑Fran. I find it very difficult that people are getting planning permissions for opencast collieries and then not doing t…”