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Calendar
Wednesday 25th June 2025 2 p.m.
Welsh Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Universities in Wales
At 2:30pm: Oral evidence
Professor Rachael Langford - Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Dr Ben Calvert - Vice-Chancellor at University of South Wales
Professor Elwen Evans KC - Vice-Chancellor at University of Wales Trinity St David
Professor Joe Yates - Vice-Chancellor at Wrexham University
Ben Lewis - Director at Open University in Wales
At 3:15pm: Oral evidence
Professor Jon Timmis - Vice-Chancellor at Aberystwyth University
Professor Edmund Burke - Vice-Chancellor at Bangor University
Professor Wendy Larner - Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff University
Professor Paul Boyle CBE - Vice-Chancellor at Swansea University
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Wednesday 2nd July 2025 2 p.m.
Welsh Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: The impact of the 2025 Spending Review on Wales
At 2:30pm: Oral evidence
Guto Ifan - Lecturer at Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University
David Phillips - Associate Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies
Dr Steffan Evans - Head of Policy (Poverty) at Bevan Foundation
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Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Oral Evidence - 2025-06-04 14:30:00+01:00

Farming in Wales in 2025: Challenges and Opportunities - Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 11th June 2025
Oral Evidence - 2025-06-11 10:00:00+01:00

The environmental and economic legacy of Wales' industrial past - Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 18th June 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the First Minister of Wales to the Chair dated 11 June 2025 relating to the evidence session on 12 February

Welsh Affairs Committee
Thursday 19th June 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from Professor Riccardo Crescenzi to the Chair dated 13 June 2025 relating to the evidence session on 26 March as part of the inquiry into Promoting Wales for Inward Investment

Welsh Affairs Committee
Thursday 19th June 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Chair to Professor Riccardo Crescenzi dated 8 April 2025 relating to the evidence session on 26 March as part of the inquiry into Promoting Wales for Inward Investment

Welsh Affairs Committee
Thursday 19th June 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from Nan Williams to the Chair dated 13 June 2025 relating to the evidence session on 26 March as part of the inquiry into Promoting Wales for Inward Investment

Welsh Affairs Committee
Thursday 19th June 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Chair to Nan Williams dated 8 April 2025 relating to the evidence session on 26 March as part of the inquiry into Promoting Wales for Inward Investment

Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Written Evidence - Universities Wales
UIW0005 - Universities in Wales

Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Written Evidence - UK Research and Innovation
UIW0004 - Universities in Wales

Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Written Evidence - University and College Union (UCU)
UIW0003 - Universities in Wales

Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Written Evidence - The Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA)
UIW0002 - Universities in Wales

Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Written Evidence - Medr
UIW0001 - Universities in Wales

Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Chair to Ken Poole MBE dated 08 April 2025 relating to the evidence session on 26 March as part of the inquiry into Promoting Wale

Welsh Affairs Committee
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from Ken Poole MBE to the Chair dated 16 April 2025 relating to the evidence session on 26 March as part of the inquiry into Promoting Wales

Welsh Affairs Committee


Written Answers
Spoil Heaps: Coal
Asked by: Ann Davies (Plaid Cymru - Caerfyrddin)
Wednesday 18th June 2025

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much funding the Welsh government requested from her Department for coal tip safety and remediation work as part of the Spending Review 2025.

Answered by Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales

At the Spending Review, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that HM Treasury would provide the Welsh Government with the funding it requested to continue its vital coal tip safety work. Ensuring coal tips across Wales remain safe is of the upmost importance and this is why the UK Government is committing £118 million over the three years of the Spending Review period (over financial years 2026/27-2028/29). This is in addition to the £25m provided at Autumn Budget last year, bringing the total UK Government investment in coal tip safety to over £140m. This is another example of how two governments working in partnership are delivering for the people of Wales.

Wales Office: Training
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Wednesday 18th June 2025

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff network events took place in her Department in May 2025; and what the names of those events were.

Answered by Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales

No staff network events took place in my Department in May 2025.

Out of Area Treatment: Wales
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West and Islwyn)
Thursday 19th June 2025

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on plans for cross-border healthcare.

Answered by Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales

I meet with the First Minister of Wales regularly to discuss a range of issues, including health. We are working in a spirit of genuine collaboration to do everything possible to cut waiting lists and build an NHS fit for the future.

A good example of our two Governments working together on health is the Interministerial Group (IMG) for Health and Social Care, which met on 30 April, chaired by the Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. The IMG brought together Ministers from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Devolved Governments to discuss shared priorities across health in the UK.

I welcome the news that waiting lists, including long waits, have fallen in recent months. These improvements come after we provided the Welsh Government with an additional £1.7 billion to invest in public services like the NHS at the Autumn Budget. An extra £600 million in funding has now been announced by the Welsh Government for health and social care in their Budget for 2025/26. Furthermore at the Spending Review last week, we announced a record £22.4 billion per year on average for the Welsh Government between 2026-27 and 2028-29, to invest in public services and drive down waiting lists. This is the largest budget settlement in the history of devolution.

Wales Office: Gender
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Thursday 19th June 2025

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether her Department has updated guidance on the use of single-sex facilities in response to the Supreme Court judgement in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers of 16 April 2025.

Answered by Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales

We will review and update policy wherever necessary to ensure it complies with the latest legal requirements. We aim to ensure appropriate facilities are available for all staff.




Wales Office mentioned

Written Answers
Birth Rate and Marriage
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Tuesday 24th June 2025

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential impacts of the declining marriage rate and birth rate in the United Kingdom.

Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 11th June is attached.

Dear Lord Jackson,

As Acting National Statistician, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking what steps are being taken to expedite the timely publication of marriage and divorce statistics by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) (HL8355), and what assessment has been made of the potential impacts of the declining marriage rate and birth rate in the United Kingdom (HL8356).

The latest published statistics on marriages[1] and divorces[2] in England and Wales are for 2022. Divorces and Dissolutions in England and Wales, 2023[3] will be published on 2 July 2025. Marriages in England and Wales, 2023[4] is provisionally scheduled for publication in November 2025, alongside Civil partnerships in England and Wales, 2023[5].

The Marriages, Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Act 2019 (which came into force on 4 May 2021) has resulted in a new electronic registration system replacing the paper marriage register. This has improved the timeliness of the submission of religious marriage entries to the General Register Office (GRO) who in turn supply these to the ONS. Following this change to the way marriages are recorded, the ONS have been working to improve the timeliness of publication of marriage statistics and to consolidate the release of marriage and civil partnership statistics to improve accessibility for users and to bring the reference periods in line.

Marriage, civil partnership and divorce statistics incorporate rates as part of the publication; these rates use population estimates by marital status[6] as denominators so these estimates need to be available prior to calculation. The ONS aims to balance the need for timely legal partnership statistics with the timing of publication, and revisions to, population estimates by marital status in order to provide the most accurate rates possible. Estimates for 2023 and 2024 are provisionally scheduled to be published in November 2025.

The ONS does not assess the potential impacts of the declining marriage rate and birth rate in the United Kingdom.

However, in our National Population Projections[7] we analyse past trends in fertility rates to produce a projection of future fertility for the UK. These projections are widely used to support policy making. The numbers of people in each life stage are important when considering dependency ratios, which inform government financial planning. A common measure is the old-age-dependency ratio (OADR), which is the number of people of pensionable age for every 1,000 people of working age. It is projected that OADR for the UK will increase from 278 in mid-2022 to 289 in mid-2032, reaching 302 by mid-2047.

The ONS has published a UK population projection explorer tool[8] which allows users to vary the assumptions for future fertility, net migration and life expectancy to see the impact on the size and age structure of the UK population over the next 50 years.

The ONS publishes marriage and divorce statistics for England and Wales only. National Records for Scotland (NRS)[9] and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA[10]) are responsible for the publication of marriage and divorce statistics for Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.

Yours sincerely,

Emma Rourke

[1] Marriages in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

[2] Divorces in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

[3] Divorces and Dissolutions in England and Wales: 2023 - Office for National Statistics

[4] Marriages in England and Wales: 2023 - Office for National Statistics

[5] Civil partnerships in England and Wales: 2023 - Office for National Statistics

[6] Population estimates by marital status and living arrangements, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

[7] National population projections - Office for National Statistics

[8] UK population projection explorer - Office for National Statistics

[9] National Records of Scotland (NRS)

[10] Home | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Marriage
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Tuesday 24th June 2025

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to expedite the timely publication of marriage and divorce statistics by the Office for National Statistics.

Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 11th June is attached.

Dear Lord Jackson,

As Acting National Statistician, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking what steps are being taken to expedite the timely publication of marriage and divorce statistics by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) (HL8355), and what assessment has been made of the potential impacts of the declining marriage rate and birth rate in the United Kingdom (HL8356).

The latest published statistics on marriages[1] and divorces[2] in England and Wales are for 2022. Divorces and Dissolutions in England and Wales, 2023[3] will be published on 2 July 2025. Marriages in England and Wales, 2023[4] is provisionally scheduled for publication in November 2025, alongside Civil partnerships in England and Wales, 2023[5].

The Marriages, Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Act 2019 (which came into force on 4 May 2021) has resulted in a new electronic registration system replacing the paper marriage register. This has improved the timeliness of the submission of religious marriage entries to the General Register Office (GRO) who in turn supply these to the ONS. Following this change to the way marriages are recorded, the ONS have been working to improve the timeliness of publication of marriage statistics and to consolidate the release of marriage and civil partnership statistics to improve accessibility for users and to bring the reference periods in line.

Marriage, civil partnership and divorce statistics incorporate rates as part of the publication; these rates use population estimates by marital status[6] as denominators so these estimates need to be available prior to calculation. The ONS aims to balance the need for timely legal partnership statistics with the timing of publication, and revisions to, population estimates by marital status in order to provide the most accurate rates possible. Estimates for 2023 and 2024 are provisionally scheduled to be published in November 2025.

The ONS does not assess the potential impacts of the declining marriage rate and birth rate in the United Kingdom.

However, in our National Population Projections[7] we analyse past trends in fertility rates to produce a projection of future fertility for the UK. These projections are widely used to support policy making. The numbers of people in each life stage are important when considering dependency ratios, which inform government financial planning. A common measure is the old-age-dependency ratio (OADR), which is the number of people of pensionable age for every 1,000 people of working age. It is projected that OADR for the UK will increase from 278 in mid-2022 to 289 in mid-2032, reaching 302 by mid-2047.

The ONS has published a UK population projection explorer tool[8] which allows users to vary the assumptions for future fertility, net migration and life expectancy to see the impact on the size and age structure of the UK population over the next 50 years.

The ONS publishes marriage and divorce statistics for England and Wales only. National Records for Scotland (NRS)[9] and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA[10]) are responsible for the publication of marriage and divorce statistics for Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.

Yours sincerely,

Emma Rourke

[1] Marriages in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

[2] Divorces in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

[3] Divorces and Dissolutions in England and Wales: 2023 - Office for National Statistics

[4] Marriages in England and Wales: 2023 - Office for National Statistics

[5] Civil partnerships in England and Wales: 2023 - Office for National Statistics

[6] Population estimates by marital status and living arrangements, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

[7] National population projections - Office for National Statistics

[8] UK population projection explorer - Office for National Statistics

[9] National Records of Scotland (NRS)

[10] Home | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency



Bill Documents
Jun. 26 2025
Bill 274 2024-25 (as introduced) - large print
Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) (No. 2) Bill 2024-26
Bill

Found: growth of Scottish industry under sections 7, 8 and 11 of the Industrial Development Act 1982.Wales Office

Jun. 26 2025
Bill 274 2024-25 (as introduced)
Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) (No. 2) Bill 2024-26
Bill

Found: growth of Scottish industry under sections 7, 8 and 11 of the Industrial Development Act 1982.64 Wales Office

Jun. 26 2025
Impact Assessment: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (as brought from the Commons)
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26
Impact Assessments

Found: their underlying illness. 48 ONS (2023), Unpaid care by age, sex and deprivation, England and Wales - Office

Jun. 23 2025
Impact Assessment on Mandatory Reporting Duty for Child Sexual Abuse from the Home Office
Crime and Policing Bill 2024-26
Impact Assessments

Found: Child sexual abuse in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)https://www.ons.gov.uk

Jun. 20 2025
Crime and Policing Bill: Delegated Powers Memorandum
Crime and Policing Bill 2024-26
Delegated Powers Memorandum

Found: of stalking and the powers available to them to protect and support 7 Crime in England and Wales - Office

Jun. 19 2025
HL Bill 111 Explanatory Notes
Crime and Policing Bill 2024-26
Explanatory Notes

Found: designated senior executive of that company. 7 The nature of violent crime in England and Wales - Office

May. 23 2025
Main Estimates: Government spending plans for 2025/26
Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) (No. 2) Bill 2024-26
Briefing papers

Found: Wales The Wales Office Main Estimate authorises:  • The cash grant to the Government of Wales.



National Audit Office
Jun. 25 2025
Report - Accountability in small government bodies (PDF)

Found: large (such as the Cabinet Office), or pertain to the devolved administrations (such as the Wales Office



Department Publications - Statistics
Wednesday 18th June 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Freedom of Information statistics: January to March 2025
Document: (webpage)

Found: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Q1 2025 Wales Office

Wednesday 18th June 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Freedom of Information statistics: January to March 2025
Document: (ODS)

Found: Northern Ireland Office 62 62 0 0 1 Scotland Office 65 65 0 0 0 UK Export Finance 46 44 0 2 10 Wales Office

Wednesday 18th June 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Freedom of Information statistics: January to March 2025
Document: View online (webpage)

Found:

Q1 2025 Wales Office



Deposited Papers
Friday 27th June 2025

Source Page: I. Proposal for a revised National Policy Statement for Ports. 87p. II. Revised National Policy Statement for Ports: appraisal of sustainability report. Incl. appendices. 331p. III. Revised Ports National Policy Statement: habitats regulations assessment report. 69p.
Document: DfT_Revised_NPS_for_Ports-AoS_Report_DEFRA.pdf (PDF)

Found: Available at: Population and household estimates, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics




Wales Office mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Senedd Debates
1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
None speech (None words)
Wednesday 18th June 2025 - None
3. Topical Questions
None speech (None words)
Wednesday 18th June 2025 - None


Welsh Senedd Speeches

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