22 January 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Paper to note
… the time , the company told us firmly and repeatedly that it did not wish to obtain that independent valuation of their assets. If they had chosen to do so, then we would have waited for the results …
22 September 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Government, were they to be in this position. I have said about the most extreme over-two-year waits that they have to go. They have to be eliminated. I said they'll go in months. That goes … that time that we have started putting money in that will, in months, bring us the benefits, not for us as Senedd Members, but for the people that we serve: people who are on long waiting lists who …
9 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… fact that most people have a good outcome and have timely care in their own experience. Our challenge is far too many people do wait too long, and far too many people don't have the experience that …
26 June 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Wales and the next UK Government
… them. Just look at the Welsh NHS, with over 21,000 waiting over two years for treatment, compared with around 200 in England, with twenty times the population. And our education sector has sadly become characterised by constant …
11 July 2025 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Welsh Government Delivery
… churn people through and get the waiting list down quickly, but I think it's absolutely wrong to allow people who've been in pain to suffer for a long time , and because it's more complicated, there … danger that you leave them on the list for a long time . I made it clear when I was health Secretary, and we're making it clear now: that is not acceptable. We've got to get those …
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
… you were as pleased as I was that, at last, the waiting lists are going down in Wales. They had gone down for the first time since the pandemic, and they're going up in England. Let … but it's really important, I think, for people to understand that we are getting through these waiting lists, and ours are going down while they're going up in England …
9 December 2025 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: The New Emergency Ambulance Performance Framework and Ambulance Patient Handover at Hospitals
… also monitor the average—the median—response time to people classified in the yellow and green categories, as well as the ninetieth percentile, known as the ‘longest wait ’. Data about individuals’ outcomes after ambulance service assessment or response … part and ensure that ambulances are available to respond to 999 calls in the community and are not waiting hours to hand over patients at emergency departments. We have placed significant emphasis on improving ambulance handover performance over …
2 October 2024 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Women's healthcare
… herself, who had responsibility, of course, for health from that year until August this year, we are still waiting . I’d like to focus in my contribution on the effect of the lack of priority, emphasis and delivery … symptoms, and offers them timely and appropriate treatment, has created an entirely unacceptable situation. Although we’ve heard Eluned Morgan, for example, insisting that nobody in Wales now should be forced to wait in that 8 o'clock …
22 September 2026 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… Libanus, Cwmdu and others—have been waiting for many months and years for revised guidance on the speed limits. And we've had correspondence, and I understand it will be some time in 2027. But I just wonder …
22 November 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Digital and AI technology in the NHS
… This will help reduce paperwork and waiting in phone queues that many people have to do so often in the morning to speak to their GP, and the amount of time that will free up will be significant …
6 March 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
… Thirty-five years since the Hillsborough disaster and families are still waiting for justice. The scales of justice, Presiding Officer, as I have said many times before in this Chamber, are tipped against working-class people, against working …
4 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… three decades, what's going to be different this time ? But you did explain that you've been working with many in the sector, so we'll wait to see that. But my question basically is: are …
18 January 2024 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
… all seen, unfortunately, the ambulances outside hospitals regularly in the media, waiting lists. And I think it's hugely challenging and I've said many times that the two services, health and social care, are so intrinsically linked …
26 June 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… example, where all those things you just said need to happen before we can then set a time frame, does this allow us, in this case, to introduce a quicker timescale for—and I'm going to keep … don't need to wait for it all to be done again, for it to come forward faster than some areas where perhaps you need a little bit more time …
5 November 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… unsafe corridor care. Doctors and nurses report patients waiting for days in corridors, side rooms and even ambulance bays without privacy, dignity or respect. Yet there is still time for us to address this, Cabinet Secretary … outcomes, so the public, clinicians and this Senedd can track progress and make sure that we have nobody waiting in corridors in our hospitals …
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… week, at the Grange University Hospital in my region. Seventeen and three quarter hours I waited , and others waited , to see just a doctor—17 and three quarter hours. All staff, let me just put on record now … doors for help. There was no care during that whole time in the A&E. There was an 82-year-old next to me who had waited 14 hours with a hernia poking out of him who decided …
12 December 2025 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Topical scrutiny
… absolute priority for us. So, bringing those waiting lists down, which is actually quite an expensive part of the system—we're talking hospitals, we're talking consultant time ; all of that is the most expensive part … the most expensive part of the system. And I'm not going to apologise for that. I want waiting lists to come down. But, at some point, I want to see the percentage balance that we spend …
10 February 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services
One of the first tasks for me is to make sure that we prevent the waiting lists from growing, and I think there's evidence to suggest that we're heading in the right direction on that. The … make sure that we treat our out-patients in a timely manner, and I'd like to see a situation where we keep our diagnostic waits to about eight weeks and therapy to about 14 weeks …
22 January 2025 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
… the name of my colleague, Paul Davies. Cancer doesn't wait , and neither should we. Yet, for far too long, Wales has failed to deliver timely , life-saving cancer care that our constituents expect and deserve. The Audit …
15 September 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Scottish National Party, there were people waiting for ambulances for too long, people in our emergency departments for too long on trolleys and not getting the treatment that they need in time , because of a lack of hospital …