My speech on the budget debate focused on health and social care. Sir, There are 9 pages devoted entirely to Health and Social Care in this budget and a good chunk of Deputy St Pier’s speech was taken up with it, so it would be remiss of me not to…
I made this speech on the opening of Nouvelle Maraitaine. This was not long after the death of Deputy Dave Jones and a plaque was installed to remember his contribution to the development of extra care housing. I’m delighted to represent the Committee for Health and Social Care on this…
On the last day of the last States meeting of the 21012-2016 term I presented the legacy report of the Public Accounts Committee. I have been proud and honoured to represent the Committee for 4 years and believe it is in a better place than at the start of the…
I laid a successful amendment to the Education Department’s report on Secondary Education in March 2016. My speech is below. Sir, I did think I heard a collective groqn that another amendment would be laid but hopefully this won’t be a mammoth debate as I believe the Education Department will…
Following the decision of the States to end the 11+ at the March 2016 States’ meeting, attention turned to the number of sites that should be retained. The choice was between the Education Department’s preferred model of one school across four sites, with the concept of a ‘hard’ federation, versus…
Probably one of the most divisive subjects that we have had to debate this term. It formed part of the Education Department’s policy letter proposals for secondary education. I thought it a very disappointing report with little in the way of evidence or desired outcomes. Financial information was sparse and…
HSSD presented its proposals for a new Capacity Law at the last States meeting. Included within this were recommendations for deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) to protect the most vulnerable in society. It was subject to an amendment to delay until the UK has decided what it was going to…
A major policy letter that hit the meeting of the States was that produced by SWBIC. Here is my speech. Sir, This is a good report. It is well-balanced, which I think reflects the diverse make up of that Committee, which I mean in a positive way. I would…
Hi there. I’m Heidi Soulsby and I was elected as a Deputy for SE District in Guernsey’s general election in April 2012 and I am standing for re-election in 2016. When I first stood for election, I said that I wasn’t a typical politician. I hope that what you have…
An amendment was placed against the Healthy Weight Strategy by Deputy Hadley to introduce a sugar tax from the beginning of 2017. The Strategy sets out that this will be researched before bringing it in. My speech against the amendment is set out below. Sir, I do urge members…
