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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
Thank you.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
—because it's important that we do so that you can get to grips with it.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
We're acutely aware, Minister, of the importance of praising the good, but shining a light on the bad. We have to have honest discussions, and that means calling out when the health board is failing. And certain aspects, unfortunately, of service in north…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
It was directly to you.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
Yes, I'm grateful to you for taking the intervention. It's a matter of fact that no Conservative Prime Minister has ever cut an NHS budget. The only Government in the United Kingdom that's ever cut an NHS budget is the Welsh Labour Government. It's your…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The Holodomor
I'm very sad to say that I knew very little about this terrible famine that was imposed and caused by the Soviet regime in Ukraine until fairly recently, when I took the opportunity to watch the film, Mr Jones, which very well depicted the terrible situation…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you for that response. You'll be aware that there's a great deal of concern in north Wales about these proposals for a tourism tax on the economy. Many tens of thousands of jobs across the region rely on the tourism industry and visitor spend. One of…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
7. What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the economic impact of a tourism tax in north Wales? OQ58001
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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I call, Trefnydd, for a statement from the First Minister on Senedd reform? Members of the Senedd will be aware, from the exchange in First Minister's questions and, indeed, from a press release issued this morning at a quarter past nine, that the First…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Welsh Economy
I was the shadow economy Minister when the then Deputy First Minister, who was responsible for the economy, Ieuan Wyn Jones, your former party leader, was responsible for the production of a manufacturing strategy, which he failed to produce in the five years…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
I'm so sorry to make another intervention so soon, but I'd like say something about the community facilities programme. Can I commend the Welsh Government for that programme? It's seen significant investment in many community facilities in my own patch…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Of course, that wasn't the only thing that the UK Government did to support people with the cost-of-living situation. They also gave a £150 council tax discount to homes, albeit in England. You got a consequential. You could go 20 per cent further than that…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Will you take an intervention?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
I asked a question.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
—the former UK Labour Government gave to our pensioners, which didn't even pay for a packet of peanuts each year?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Do you regret the paltry pension increase that—
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Do you regret—
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
—has been frozen for 12 years in a row.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Fuel duty—
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
—has been reduced, to put another £1,000 in the pockets of the lowest paid, 2 million people across the UK.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
We know that universal credit taper rate—
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Well, if he wants to talk about prospects for people, then we need to sort out our education system in Wales, which your Government is responsible for, and is the worst, unfortunately, in the United Kingdom. In terms of what the United Kingdom is doing to…
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Debate: Human Rights
Will you take an intervention?
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Debate: Human Rights
Thank you for that. I've read the UK Government's consultation document on its reform of human rights and its need to modernise the human rights legislation here in the UK. I can't see anything that is going to strip rights away from people. We're going to…
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Debate: Human Rights
Will you take an intervention?