21 October 2026 , Plenary
Short Debate: Full-face coverings are against British values
Just a point of order, Presiding Officer—[Inaudible.]—review, after what's been said in the last 60 seconds or so, to decide whether that's appropriate for the Chamber.
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Will you take an intervention?
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Okay, thank you, Minister. Finally, the national literacy and numeracy assessments are online and personalised to each pupil. So, they're rather like a flow chart, where the next question depends on the answers to the last one. These tests can be taken…
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Okay, thank you, Minister. I see that later on there's a question regarding teachers leaving the profession. Surveys show that poor pupil behaviour is a factor. However, Plaid's recent programme for government, whilst acknowledging workload concerns, makes no…
21 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Cabinet Minister, additional learning needs funding remains a contentious issue, with a debate scheduled next month in response to a petition. ALN funding by the Welsh Government is up 14 per cent on last year, and has…
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
Will you consider changing this structure or, even better, set a target for its abolition?
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
I refer to my register of interests. I want to focus on two areas of concern, Minister. First is our first-time buyers. There is no first-time buyer relief in Wales. So, for example, if a first-time buyer buys a £300,000 house, they pay £4,500 more in tax…
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
3. What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the impact of the land transaction tax since its introduction in 2018? OQ64688
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, Wales presently has nearly 4,000 MW of installed capacity, all dependent on gas for firing. Given what's just been said, this document, produced by the National Grid, 'Community Energy Scenarios', reveals the truth of this community energy…
7 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care
Cabinet Minister, the Welsh ambulance service quite rightly complains that patients cancel non-emergency transport at the last minute, with it reported that 20,000 had been cancelled until July, and around 60,000 last year. However, it seems that no such…
7 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care
2. How is the Welsh Government monitoring late cancellations by the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust of non-emergency patient transport in Monmouthshire and Torfaen? OQ64614
29 September 2026 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Business Manager, in July, Sam Rowlands expressed concern to you that protocols were being developed in local government that would restrict the freedom of elected members to communicate directly with Members of this Parliament. In recent weeks, there's been…
22 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Update on the Deposit-return Scheme
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Minister, this is a hospital pass that was put out by Boris Johnson's Conservative Government, passed to Labour, who embraced it in Westminster, then it came to Labour in Cardiff and now it's ended up on your desk. I…
16 September 2026 , Plenary
Short Debate: Congestion isn't inevitable: How the Welsh Government and Cardiff Council can improve the lives of motorists in Cardiff and the surrounding regions
The economy of Wales moving, absolutely. We need the Cardiff and the wider Cardiff economy to surge, and we can't. It's not happening. We have a problem, and the biggest problem is Bristol. Let's look at some facts here. We have house prices in Bristol that…
16 September 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
Minister, a fortnight ago, I attended the defence security and resilience conference in Newport, something rather naively described by opponents as an arms fair. It wasn't an arms fair. Resilience was a really key part of it, and some of these discussions…
15 September 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education: Review of Higher Education
I'd like to thank the Deputy Minister for sight of his statement. Deputy Minister, you quite correctly referred to prosperity a few times in the economy, and indeed there's a lot of evidence that the success of the economy is linked to education. We've had…
8 July 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Thank you, Presiding Officer. There's a basic law of taxation that we understand. Let's have some examples. If you tax smoking, you get less smoking. If you tax jobs, you get fewer jobs. If you tax private education, as we've seen in the last few days, you…
2 June 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I think the First Minister knows that there is a review of that over the next two years, and I'm disappointed that he can't at this stage commit to saying that he would reverse that review over a two-year period. I should declare an interest: I'm a member of…
2 June 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. Will the First Minister commit to offering separate physics, chemistry and biology GCSEs, and reverse the previous administration's plans to offer only combined science? OQ64074
12 May 2026 , Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Dan Thomas.
