7 May 2025 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government performance during the Sixth Senedd
… young people the young person's guarantee, despite the fact that the UK Government at the time insisted on taxing us by clawing back whatever benefits they were getting as a result, which is a pretty shocking reflection … very important decision. The Cabinet Secretary for health, Jeremy Miles, has had a systematic approach to getting waiting lists down, and we can see the evidence, month by month, in how that is moving forward. We've got …
23 November 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
… per cent. This is incredibly disappointing given that there are 67,000 households currently on housing waiting lists in Wales, and some of those, a large number, are in the constituency of Aberconwy. So, Minister, will you confirm … haven't seen anything like that coming forward, but have heard the rhetoric by Plaid Cymru many times about how second homes and holiday lets are so bad for us that I feel you're going down that …
24 September 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: A new partnership to transform our railways
… Wales given a real voice on services operating to and from Wales, which is particularly relevant at a time when passengers in north Wales are being so badly let down in terms of those vital services to and … assets here in Wales. And to its great credit, the industry isn’t sitting on its hands and waiting for the political process to run its course. Cyfuno, which brings together TfW and Network Rail, has already made …
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… listening to farmers for seven years, since the referendum vote to leave the European Union. It is a time of change, and you will have heard the First Minister say that we absolutely recognise that and understand … answers to the questions that they have around the consultation. But it is a consultation. We need to wait for that consultation to finish, in a month. There will then be further discussions, there will then be further …
15 October 2025 , Plenary
Short Debate: Acting FAST: Raising Stroke awareness in Wales
… lives of thousands of people. Acting on the symptoms of stroke and seeking treatment quickly is crucial. Losing time can lead to the loss of brain cells, and that's why it's so important that everyone … ignores the materials and messages that raise awareness of stroke symptoms across Wales in surgeries and in hospital waiting rooms, in community pharmacies and on the phone messages of many surgeries. Many partners are considering all of the …
29 September 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
… the social rented sector. We start to make those decisions around December, so I’m just currently waiting on a set of advice from my officials, which will set out the pros and cons of various forms … need to make sure that we’re not going to make social rent unaffordable. But, at the same time , that rental income is what funds the new builds and the retrofits for our current social housing. Although, having …
26 March 2025 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cancer services in Wales: evidence session with Wales Cancer Alliance
… kind of where we’re at. We’re policy people, we’ve been doing this a long time , and it’s really difficult to grasp what is going on at the moment. We know that there has been … the same. I don’t know how effective it’s going to be; we’ll have to wait and see in terms of what they deliver, because we have no insight into that …
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… residents died, sadly, before receiving any treatment for stomach cancer in Liverpool. Another one of my constituents has waited around four months for lung cancer treatment in Liverpool, but has now just had the treatment, thanks to coming … coin – people with cancer face no better than 50/50 odds on whether they are treated on time '. Now, I am currently liaising with the health board and the ombudsman in relation to the examples that I have had …
18 March 2025 , Plenary
Debate: The Estyn Annual Report 2023-24
… number of changes and reforms to the education sector while school budgets are shrinking at the same time . Despite all of the hard work by teachers and pupils, the challenges continue, as we've heard, and that … that professional or personal. We cannot allow the next generation, particularly those who are most disadvantaged, to wait as long as a decade to see improvements. May I ask the Cabinet Secretary whether she can give …
18 February 2025 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Implementation of the National Framework for the Delivery of Bereavement Care
… this. It was always anticipated that this additional layer of safeguards and scrutiny would add some additional time between death and registration, and we are seeing this reflected currently in the ONS data, alongside the usual longer timescales … and we're doing something about it. My heart really goes out to people who are having to wait longer than necessary to be able to plan a funeral and to be able to say goodbye to their …
8 July 2025 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: The Building Safety (Wales) Bill
… you for your welcome for this important Bill. As you say, this is something that we have been waiting for, and we've been working really hard to make sure that we get this right in discussion with … doing that, it'll ensure that we have a smooth transition where local authorities really do have that time and space to plan resources needed for the new regime. As I said, I'm making funding available because …
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
… that it's not appropriate for me to build that campaign now; I think it is right to wait for that to come in. But the problem will be, when people are raising concerns with me, and … final—or have concerns about the final—line in what he said. 'I think in a year's time ', he said, 'we will look back at this and think it was a lot of fuss about nothing …
14 October 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… words of comfort to us as a family, which meant a lot to us during that very difficult time . As you said, the tragedy and the feeling of loss does continue, and at every stage in the life … know was: when? And I wasn't able to obtain that answer from the Minister. The constituent has waited 38 years now. Could you provide any idea to Heather and to a number of other families …
8 June 2022 , Plenary
Short Debate: Hidden issues affecting deaf people and those suffering hearing loss
… that appropriate services are developed and individuals are signposted to those services when they're needed. In the time I have today, I can't do justice to the range of policies under way to address hidden issues … multi-agency professionals. In April, I published our programme for transforming and modernising planned hospital care and reducing waiting lists. Importantly, the plan signals the transformation of community-based services to offer different options designed to support individuals …
17 July 2024 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… respectively should be compared against the fact that the Government was supposed to have completely eliminated all such waits in March of this year. I’d also like to pick up on the following sentence from the preamble … the regrettable reality is that the Government’s performance targets on healthcare have largely been nominal for some time anyway. So, is this revised framework a tacit acknowledgement that the Government is giving up on its own targets …
17 March 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
… quite worrying, really, that there are no futureproofing restrictions and protections for the farming industry. Whilst we wait to see what the absolute impact is, there is enough there to worry rural economies and farming economies … their trade generally to the eastern part of the world, I don't see that changing any time soon unless, obviously, geopolitical reasons necessitate change. What I would say as well is that there's a bit …
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
… was raised at the summit as being absolutely crucial. Mental health comes up with young people all the time . So, obviously, I work very closely with the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being to do what … early stage to young people so that they don't reach the need where they're on a waiting list for CAMHS, because we know the waiting lists are long for CAMHS, and we want to try and …
9 May 2024 , Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
… course. Could I just perhaps start by saying that it's been a really difficult period of time for the organisation and for the staff in the organisation? The impact of the actions of one individual has really … and those allegations. She was actually on annual leave when I received that complaint, and we had to wait three days before she returned home, and then her line manager and our HR officer made contact with her …
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee Report: 'A new direction for HGV Drivers—Addressing HGV drivers shortages and related supply chain Issues'
… course, compounding wider domestic and global supply chain problems, leading to widespread cost inflation and longer delivery times for a broad range of goods. At present, we believe that no particular sector of the Welsh economy faces severe … post Brexit, IR35 tax changes affecting drivers, and, of course, as we've heard, the backlog of tests waiting to be taken due to COVID. The Department for Transport estimated that there are between 70,000 and …
15 May 2023 , Petitions Committee
Evidence session 2 - P-06-1326 The Senedd should scrutinise the prepayment meter scandal in Wales
… you, all. We have run out of time . I'm conscious that we've gone over our allotted time , as well, so I appreciate you staying for just a bit longer. I will bring this session … and the definition there. If there are further things to share from our witnesses today, please do not wait for us to get in touch, however we might be in touch with further questions during our inquiry. But …