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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
Llywydd, I now turn to those Bills this Government will introduce in the third year of the legislative programme. There is a strong theme of reform running through the Bills we intend to bring forward as we use the law to make positive changes for people in…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
Llywydd, thank you very much. In this annual statement today, I will set out the third year of our ambitious legislative programme. By this point in the term, I know that the Senedd is used to dealing with a significant legislative workload, as has very much…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Altaf Hussain for those very important points. I want to assure him that the Welsh Government takes those points very seriously indeed. I thought the report on maternity services in Cardiff was a genuinely distressing report, and I'm sure it will have…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank the Member for that question, Llywydd. The Welsh Government works directly alongside those with lived experience of health inequalities to improve access to healthcare provision. That work is embedded, for example, in the 'Anti-racist Wales Action…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I’d have to familiarise myself with the particular evidence to which the Member has referred, but he is right, of course, to say that the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act places these duties on local authorities. And preparing for…
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Questions to the First Minister
The Welsh Government is committed to developing accessible, high-quality and responsive services that meet the needs of all blind and partially sighted people in Wales. The disability rights taskforce provides essential support to this work.
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I would describe the impact of the trials in just the same way as the Member has, and I’d do that because I was lucky enough to visit a school in my own constituency taking part in the trial where the headteacher described the way to me in…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Rhianon Passmore, Llywydd. An evaluation of the trials was published earlier this year. It found that children and young people, parents and school settings were positive about the opportunities provided. We're considering the findings in the context…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I was wrong to say 10,000 extra patients were being seen in the Hywel Dda area, because the actual figure was 17,305. Those figures are published already. You don't need me to publish them, they are already published by the NHS, and they are…
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Questions to the First Minister
The points that Jane Dodds made about changes in the regulatory environment that allow not simply dentists but other members of the dental team to open and close treatments is a very important—. It sounds very technical; it's actually very important in us…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Jane Dodds, and I thank her for what she said about the changes that we've already seen.
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Jane Dodds for that question, Llywydd. One point 3 million courses of treatment were delivered to over 1 million patients through general dental services in 2022-23. Nearly 174,000 of these patients were new patients.
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I thank Ken Skates for those further points. He’s absolutely right that the policy of this Government, supported by others in this Chamber, is to encourage participation rather than to embark on a policy of voter suppression. We’ve seen the results…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Adam Price for asking this important question. As he said, evidence in countries where people do vote under the system that he suggested shows that many more people do vote, and that's an important thing in terms of the health of our democratic…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Adam Price for that question, Llywydd. We are committed to reducing the democratic deficit in Wales by reforming electoral administration, widening access to elections and encouraging participation in our democracy. In my opinion, before introducing a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, a series of Members this afternoon are making the case for additional investment in infrastructure here in Wales. We heard it from the leader of Plaid Cymru in relation to transport, and Carolyn Thomas makes a powerful case for further…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Darren Millar for the question. Of course, as he says, I'm not surprised to hear him raise the issue, because he has raised it persistently and powerfully on the floor of the Senedd. As I've said to him previously, however, a strategic outline case…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, the capital programme in health and social care in Wales exceeds £375 million in the current financial year, and rises again next year. Local health boards must prioritise their own proposals for investment in the NHS estate and then submit business…
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Questions to the First Minister
I think it is a significant misrepresentation to conflate the positions of a Prime Minister in office, making decisions today to deny Wales the funding that Wales ought to have through the Barnett formula as a result of HS2 investment, and a government that…
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Questions to the First Minister
I don't want to say to the Member that there will be an easy pathway to those improvements. As we've rehearsed on the floor of the Senedd here recently, Network Rail have published an investment prospectus that puts Wales at the very foot of the investment…
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Questions to the First Minister
No I don't, Llywydd, and nor does the Minister. The Minister said very recently that the challenges facing Transport for Wales mean that the service that has been provided in some parts of Wales has not been of a standard that passengers are entitled to…
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Questions to the First Minister
First of all, let's make sure that the record accurately reflects spending, because what the leader of the opposition said is simply untrue. Spending per head of the population on the NHS in Wales, and on health and social care in Wales, is higher than in…
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Questions to the First Minister
I notice that when it suits the leader of the opposition to compare what happens in Wales and England, he does so at every opportunity, and the minute I point out something else to him, he tells me he's not interested in what happens elsewhere—he wants to…
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Questions to the First Minister
The hope that we offer people is to recognise the enormous efforts that the health service is making and the success that the health service is seeing in those efforts. Two-year waits did fall again last month for the thirteenth month in a row, 52-week waits…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, the planning processes are there to balance out a whole series of different interests. Businesses have very legitimate and important interests when they're seeking to grow and they need to pursue those through the planning process, but so will…
