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Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
Thank you for giving way. I specifically asked if you could update us on the current figure. So, can you tell us what is the current figure for unallocated spending and what is the current figure for the Welsh reserve?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Nurses' pay
Will the Minister give way?
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Topical Questions
Well, as we know, Counsel General, the Supreme Court delivered its verdict that the Scottish Government, despite the strength of the democratic mandate it secured at last year's Holyrood election, has no legal route under the current constitutional…
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Topical Questions
1. What assessment has the Counsel General made of how the Supreme Court's judgement on the Scottish Parliament's intention to hold a second independence referendum will affect Wales’s ability to decide its own constitutional future? TQ687
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
It is a cause of great pride for us in Wales that we have continued with the EMA, which isn't true of some other parts of the United Kingdom. But one thing that hasn't happened, of course, as the Minister is aware, is that we haven't increased the allowance…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
3. What is the Welsh Government doing to support post-16 learners in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr who are in receipt of education maintenance allowance? OQ58748
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I'm grateful to the Minister for his response. Of course, you and I will be very familiar with this line, as it travels through the middle of the town where we were educated. It provides a wonderful journey, of course, through mid Wales. But many of my…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
5. What plans does the Welsh Government have to increase the quality and availability of rail journeys in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr? OQ58747
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Questions to the First Minister
If so, why is Keir Starmer talking about making Brexit work rather than taking us back into the single market? Now, if we can turn to Qatar, you will have seen the reports that Welsh fans, including former Wales captain, Laura McAllister, were refused entry…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'd be grateful if you could address the specific question: whether you have money in the Welsh reserve, and whether you have unallocated spending available to you. Now, Keir Starmer says he wants the NHS to rely less on overseas doctors and nurses and wants…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. The Royal College of Nursing has paused the formal announcement of strike action in Scotland, because the Scottish Government has reopened pay negotiations. Why are you, so far, refusing to do the same? Last week, the First Minister suggested…
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Questions to the First Minister
I look forward to the First Minister allowing us to go through the books with him. Will he organise a briefing when we can actually look, line by line, at where we can reprioritise the budget in a progressive, socialist way? Now, can the First Minister…
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Questions to the First Minister
Sir Keir has said that the single most important thing he could do for striking workers is to usher in a Labour Government. And, yes, if that was a radical Government that can help deliver fairer funding for Wales and greater fairness all round through the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. Today marks 100 years of Labour's electoral dominance, making your party, in your words, 'the most successful party in the democratic world'. I have to say, this morning, there wasn't quite that celebratory mood when I and other Plaid Cymru…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
You will be aware, Minister, that a high percentage of homes in Wales are not connected to the gas grid—it's almost one in five homes. And in some areas in Carmarthenshire, for example, it's as much as 39 per cent. These homes, which are reliant on…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
2. What support is the Welsh Government providing for off-grid homes that are in fuel poverty? OQ58675
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Questions to the First Minister
I'd like to return, finally, to the issue raised earlier about the world cup. You may be aware of a report this morning that the Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador, Khalid Salman, has described homosexuality as 'damage in the mind', and has said he is worried…
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Questions to the First Minister
We look forward to that statement. One of the key questions is how we can emulate the success that we've seen in Scotland. We have the potential there, but we have not, to date at least, been able to realise it. One of the key themes emerging from COP27 is…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. Last month, the United Nations Environment Programme published its emissions gap report for 2022. It contained a stark message for humanity, as we've already heard, with the international community falling far short of the decarbonisation…
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Questions to the First Minister
When you were in Ireland recently, you reiterated your view that the United Kingdom represents, for Wales, a great insurance policy, but how is that policy working for us when the contract can constantly be changed over our heads, against our wishes and…
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Questions to the First Minister
You've been calling for a general election, and there is an unanswerable case for having one, given now we've had two Prime Ministers without a democratic mandate. The truth is that Prime Minister Sunak is free to ignore that, as he is free to ignore you. The…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, you quite rightly complained that the last Tory Prime Minister failed to pick up the phone to you, and indeed treated yours and the other devolved Governments with contempt. How do you intend to approach relations with the…
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Questions to the First Minister
That's precisely what the Labour Party did in Westminster, isn't it? What could a solidarity tax do? It could help us meet the reasonable demands of public sector workers to improve the Welsh Government's pay offer, which even a Labour-affiliated union has…
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Questions to the First Minister
But the tone was fiscal conservatism, wasn't it? That's not the kind of progressive politics that we want to see from a change of Government in Westminster. Now, in response to the Chancellor's statement, the Minister for Finance and Local Government here…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, Liz Truss's u-turns this week were so numerous and so breathtakingly rapid that they became a political pirouette. But she wasn't the only one, was she? Three weeks ago, Keir Starmer said that Labour wouldn't reverse the cut to the basic rate…
