Agenda - Health and Social Care Committee


Meeting Venue:

Hybrid – Committee Room 5, Ty Hywel

and video conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Sarah Beasley

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddHealth@senedd.wales


Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

(09.00-09.30)

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Public meeting

(09.30 - 12.15)

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest.

(09.30)                                                                                                             

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2       Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care; the Minister for Children and Social Care and the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

                                                                                                   (Pages 1 - 78)

Jeremy Miles MS - Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Dawn Bowden MS - Minister for Children and Social Care

Sarah Murphy MS - Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing

 

Sioned Rees - Temporary Public Health Protection Director

Albert Heaney - Chief Social Care Officer for Wales

Alex Slade - Director of Primary Care, Mental Health and Early Years 

Hywel Jones - Director of Finance 

Nick Wood - Deputy Chief Executive NHS Wales 

 

Research brief

Paper 1 – Welsh Government draft budget paper

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3       Paper(s) to note

(12:15)                                                                                                             

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3.1   Letter from Chair to Welsh Government to inform scrutiny of the Draft Budget 2025-26.

                                                                                                 (Pages 79 - 82)

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3.2   Letter from Chair of Petitions Committee to Cabinet Secretary for Finance re. Petition P-06-1400 on fair and adequate resourcing of General Practice in Wales.

                                                                                                 (Pages 83 - 87)

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3.3   Letter from Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care re the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust (WASUT).

                                                                                                 (Pages 88 - 89)

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3.4   Letter from Andrew RT Davies MS re surgical mesh.

                                                                                                           (Page 90)

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3.5   Letter from the Minister for Children and Social Care re. amendments tabled during Stage 2 scrutiny of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill.

                                                                                                 (Pages 91 - 95)

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3.6   Letter from Chief Executive of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to the Petitions Committee re. Petition P-06-1350: Re-open Dyfi Ward at Tywyn Hospital.

                                                                                                 (Pages 96 - 99)

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3.7   Letter from the Chief Executive of Tenovus Cancer Care re the proposed increase in employer National Insurance Contributions (NIC).

                                                                                             (Pages 100 - 101)

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3.8   Letter from Jane Dodds MS re proposal for an inquiry into gambling- related harm in Wales.

                                                                                             (Pages 102 - 103)

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3.9   Letter from the Chair of Petitions Committee re. Petition P-06-1480: Make menopause a mandatory part of the curriculum for all healthcare sciences and medical students.

                                                                                             (Pages 104 - 105)

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting.

(12.15)                                                                                                             

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Private meeting

(12.15 - 12.45)

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5       Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26: consideration of evidence

(12.15-12.45)                                                                                                  

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