, Finance Committee
Second Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence Session
We recognise that there's only one change in the budget since June. Can you outline why no other allocations have been made?
, Plenary
Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
—road option alongside improvements to the existing motorway and public transport. The study needs to lead to a decision that Ministers can fund and carry through. I also expect progress on the existing network while this work takes place. People should be…
, Plenary
Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Diolch, Lywydd. This is the first time I rise in this Chamber having to admit that I'm in awe of the Labour Party—for the barefaced cheek it takes to bring this motion to the floor of the Senedd, having cancelled the previous scheme in 2019. Let us not forget…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I welcome the inclusion of annual health checks in GP contracts and the new national pathway. Could you give me more detail on how the Welsh Government is working with the health boards and with GP practices to keep learning disability…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. What assessment has the First Minister made of the uptake of annual health checks among adults with learning disabilities? OQ64798
, Plenary
Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Cefn Fforest Leisure Centre remains open, but Caerphilly council significantly reduced its opening hours in 2025 and closed the fitness suite. Will the Sport Wales data capture include changes to opening hours, the facility availability at each site and the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
7. Will the Cabinet Minister provide an update on the Sport Wales audit of regional and community sports facilities? OQ64715
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Again, I feel uncomfortable about what I'm suggesting in some ways, but I also feel that, down on the ground, when you are taking up causes, you've got a right, again, for review. You can ask your doctor, you can ask your specialist, to have a review. I think…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I'd like to thank Tiffany Summerfield for bringing this forward. I'd just like to say that reading the stories is horrific, really, in the sense that it takes so long for something to be diagnosed and, obviously, outcomes are not that good. Having said that…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
And we've been touching on Movember, and there's Men's Sheds—there are all sorts of organisations out there now. Again, it's important, when I was looking into this, that we get that message out to people. And I think that's, to me—. Again, education is…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
I'd like to thank Delyth Owen for bringing this forward. She noted in her comments when bringing it together that nobody sort of seemed to know a lot about it and the lack of knowledge around it. Again, I was not aware of it. I went and did some research…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Okay. I'd like to thank the petitioner as well. Obviously, animal welfare is really important. As I've read it, the plan—the animal welfare plan 2021-26—hasn't been successful in making it mandatory, and, again, we're still going along with people who are…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes, I'm happy to support that as well. Again, there are lots of people who don't understand the history of Wales, and I just think it would be really important that young people get a chance to be educated in that level of understanding of where they're…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes, thank you.
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales- Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26, and Estimate 2027-28: Evidence session
Obviously, we've discussed that you're expecting the complaints to go up and you're estimating that to go up. There is a risk that the incidence of absence due to stress will increase. What is the impact of the increased case load on staff well-being so far…
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales- Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26, and Estimate 2027-28: Evidence session
The submission for 2027/28 prioritises investment in technology and new ways of working, along with a new digital, data and technology strategy. How integral is this to achieving the aims of the new strategic plan and what work has the ombudsman undertaken to…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2027-28: Evidence Session
You say staffing accounts for 70 per cent of your costs. How have you sought to reduce the growth in your staffing numbers?
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2027-28: Evidence Session
I was going to say, my second question comes on to that.
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2027-28: Evidence Session
How have you sought to reduce the percentage increase requested for parts of the budget within your control?
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The statutory threshold remains 2 miles for primary schools and 3 miles for secondary pupils. In communities such as Islwyn, the reality of their journey can be very different, depending on the terrain, the roads and whether there is a genuinely safe walking…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
8. What assessment has the First Minister made of whether the current learner travel framework is delivering fair access to education across Wales? OQ64650
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2027-28 - Pre-budget scrutiny: Cabinet Minister for Finance
I'm just going to stray slightly off what I'm doing. What I'm getting when I'm speaking to people and generally just being out in communities and talking with organisations is that they would benefit from a three-year plan of having secure money, because it…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2027-28 - Pre-budget scrutiny: Cabinet Minister for Finance
How will you evidence how decisions being made in your budgets are supporting public services that are sustainable in the long term, for example, through increasing preventative spend and increasing public sector productivity and efficiency?
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
Okay.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
There were two severance payments made out. Were posts deleted as a result of this activity, and if so, what has happened to the work and tasks previously undertaken by those roles?
