5 November 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
One of the contributing factors to the long waiting lists has undoubtedly been the persistent pressure faced by the workforce, with unrelenting and increasing unsustainable workloads. Under such circumstances, you would naturally expect high demand amongst health boards … for extra staff, especially as we approach the busiest time of the year for the NHS. But in a clear sign of the misalignment of available resources with the needs of the system, the very opposite is often …
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Cost of Living
… people. People waiting are forced to turn to support from the discretionary assistance fund to see them through this hardship. We call on the UK Government to look again at this, particularly at this time of the cost …
27 September 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
… look forward to a statement in Plenary soon. Minister, it seems quite timely today to talk about school transport, as other Members have just talked about it, and it's on the same theme, actually. School transport has … waiting 45 minutes before and after school, in the cold, the dark, and the rain, because the bus route they've been put on, or it's been suggested they use, does not wrap around school times . These …
26 March 2025 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cancer services in Wales: evidence session with Wales Cancer Alliance
… time , Vaughan Gething, who was health Minister, took a brave decision to actually create the single cancer pathway and worked with the Wales Cancer Network to put in place arrangements that actually removed all the hidden waits …
26 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
… wait for the Cabinet Secretary to put his equipment on—of fatal and serious accidents on Dwyfor Meirionnydd roads, and that's because of their nature as rural, winding roads. I've raised several times with your predecessor …
19 October 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Dentistry - evidence session with Community Dental Services and Welsh Committee of Community Dentists
… years now. We ran surveys, and we have causes of stress that are: the excessive pressures of the waiting lists, of course, and the backlog; the limited control that we have over the diaries; poor communication sometimes with … This was noted by our members. Now, poor morale, if we have pressure for a prolonged period of time , unfortunately, this can cause mental health problems, and this is a very serious issue in the dental profession …
18 September 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Building Safety Remediation
… two and a half years until my mum passed away. I paid service charges, of course, all that time . I had two offers to buy the flat during lockdown. One was a cash offer of £75,000, but … from a buyer who needed a mortgage, without knowing about the need for an EWS1 form. The buyer waited two years for the survey to take place, but eventually pulled out. My flat was then marketed with …
12 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
… are waiting to come back into Cardigan market who were there before, but who were looking forward to the refurbishment. They also have a long list of people looking to get in for the first time , and they …
29 September 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
… wait , unlike the UK Government, for the OBR's forecast so that we can better understand the situation that we're facing and take informed choices. So, there will be plenty of time to have discussions. I know …
24 April 2024 , Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 2
… more timely communication relating to devolved funding around UK fiscal events, and do you have a view of how this could be approached, so that the Government knew what they were having earlier, rather than waiting …
14 October 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
… real- time data collection really helped to support the work and address and think out of the box about how some issues could be addressed. One of the issues, for instance, was people being on a waiting list …
29 April 2025 , Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: The Legislative Programme
… over one in four of the Welsh population on a waiting list, and a staggering 15,500 people waiting two years or more, compared to virtually zero over the border in England. People's lives are literally … Acts per politician, whilst in Wales it's just 0.28 Acts per politician. Moreover, Scotland has 2.15 times the number of politicians, yet it has produced 3.41 the number of Acts in the same time frame. So, Counsel …
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
… for your time , and thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you very much. Members, we will now take a short break until 10:40. Thank you very much once again. And we'll wait to hear …
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
… have to wait until right at the very end of the financial year, in the supplementary estimates at the end of February, before you get the full picture, and that leaves you very little time then to really …
21 January 2026 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 1
… ones that we're losing, and just a small number can actually build up quite a lot over time . Has it been ambitious enough? I think at the end of this month, we've got the new housing … The 20,000 was based pre COVID. We know the 95,000 households that are now on the waiting list. So, the 60,000, which I think was calculated to get to the 20 per cent, that …
27 March 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The role of local authorities in supporting hospital discharges: Evidence session 1
… means to an end. And the danger is that the policy context shifts so rapidly, by the time you've got through the reorganisation, the policy context has then moved on somewhere else, and you're onto the … frail older person who's in hospital today, who needs to come out and be supported, can't wait for us to more formally integrate health and social care—they need support now. And that's the stuff …
25 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 4
… sits and waits until the next revaluation. The goal isn't to do mid-cycle revaluations; it's to create a portfolio of knowledge that is meant to help with the revaluation in three years' time , let …
14 March 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… the timing of the environmental governance and biodiversity targets, we will bring those forward as soon as we can. I absolutely understand the urgency. But, just to be really clear, Delyth, we're not waiting for the legislation …
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report—'Increasing costs: Impact on culture and sport'
… crucial time . Could I say as well, Llywydd, that I do believe that this is the sector that has been proactive in dealing with some of these challenges? They're not just sitting about waiting for support …
19 January 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
… basics like waiting lists and things like that. So much has to change, perhaps, in some areas to align to these targets. They are going to take a while to bed in. We do need time for them …