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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, the Member makes a very important general point about the importance of growing the economy in mid and west Wales, and particularly jobs that retain young people in the communities in which they have grown up and where they wish to make a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, we're working actively with our partners to explore opportunities for the region through the delivery of the mid Wales growth deal. The collaboratively produced regional economic framework for mid Wales sets out our shared priorities for the region.
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, of course Alun Davies articulates the most important solution to the difficulties that ordinary people in Wales face. This is a crisis made in Downing Street, by successive occupants of 10 Downing Street. I've listened in the last week to UK…
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Questions to the First Minister
I could hear. Llywydd, well, of course, Lisa Nandy was right that building more homes has to be part of the solution to people who don't have homes at the moment. She will have been replying to the retreat of the UK Government from the plans that the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, thank you to Peredur Owen Griffiths for that set of questions. I agree with him, of course, that so many households in Wales are faced with rising mortgage bills, where they do not know how they will manage with the rises already announced, and…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, we're doing everything we can to support people through this cost-of-living crisis by providing targeted help to those who need it the most. Forty million pounds has been allocated to bring forward schemes to support people in mortgage difficulty at…
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Joint item with the Welsh Youth Parliament
Thank you, all, for joining us today. You can be sure that you have the whole support of the Senedd in the important work that you will carry out not simply on behalf of young people in Wales, but on behalf of Wales as a whole. Diolch yn fawr.
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Joint item with the Welsh Youth Parliament
Llywydd, good afternoon and thank you very much. I'd like to start by congratulating all Members of the Youth Parliament on being elected. Last week, I met with somebody who had been a Member of the first Youth Parliament here in Wales. He told me that the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I am indeed aware of the changes in technologies, and I'm aware of the fact that it is the single most outstanding example of the unfairness of the UK Government's policies towards airports not just here in Wales, but across the United Kingdom…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I would welcome the resumption of the Doha service from Cardiff, but this is a commercial matter, to be pursued through negotiations between the airport executive team and Qatar Airways.
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I think we're very lucky in Wales to have such a powerful partnership and a powerful partner in the Stroke Association. And I heard what the Member said about the Stroke Association being part of his visit in Buckley. We have a long-standing…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, amongst the actions that the health service takes to support stroke survivors are early supported discharge and the provision of essential rehabilitation to enable recovery at home.
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Sam Rowlands for drawing attention to the pressures that are there in temporary accommodation in Wales. They’re there, as the Member will know, because of our policy of making sure that nobody is left homeless here in Wales. A series of actions are…
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Questions to the First Minister
Our strategy is to increase the supply of housing for rent and for purchase, while improving the quality of housing to match our climate change obligations.
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, I thank Mabon ap Gwynfor for that supplementary question, and I thank him for what he said about the importance of the items that we have in the co-operation agreement. And the reason why we’ve published a Green Paper is because we want to draw evidence…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thanks to Vikki Howells for that, Dirprwy Lywydd. Indeed, the Minister will be making a statement this afternoon on the latest iteration of the Warm Homes programme and the difference that that has made already and will go on making in the lives of people who…
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Questions to the First Minister
The introduction of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 last December has put in place the framework for significant improvements to the private rented sector, including a requirement for a written contract, better security of tenure and a greater certainty…
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Questions to the First Minister
The review is proceeding and proceeding actively. Mr Evans asked what engagement there was with local authorities. There was a deadline of 5 June for local authorities to submit their evidence to that review—evidence around costs, numbers, modes of delivery…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Carolyn Thomas for that. She is right that the statement that the Deputy Minister made last week is signed up to by six different partners across the industry, local authorities and the Welsh Government. There has been a huge effort over recent weeks…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Carolyn Thomas. Llywydd, on Friday, the Welsh Government published a statement with bus industry partners and others. It confirmed that funding provided this year will ensure that essential services can continue. The impact on learners ahead of the…
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Questions to the First Minister
In answering Huw Irranca-Davies, Llywydd, I tried to say about the importance of moving services closer to people in order to deal with health inequalities, and the fantastic work that has gone on in Wales in community pharmacy, a cause that has been…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, thank you very much to Jane Dodds.
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Questions to the First Minister
I don't disagree with the opening proposition that inequalities within the health service itself are something that we have to work harder to eradicate. When we used to talk about the prudent healthcare agenda on the floor of the Senedd here, I remember often…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I think Huw Irranca-Davies has very well articulated the fact that improvement in health inequalities does not lie in the hands of the health service primarily; it lies in dealing with those underlying and precipitating causes that impact on the life…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, health inequalities are a manifestation of wider economic and social inequalities that shape the life chances of Welsh citizens. We know that the earliest actions we can take—the Healthy Start scheme and compensatory policies such as Flying…
