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Topical Questions
Minister, thank you for your responses this afternoon. I've listened intently and I was grateful for the leader of the house's response yesterday, which I think was very insightful, especially as you agreed to keep the Chamber updated.
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25
I hope that the finance Minister will acknowledge that, from these benches, we have always said that the pay review body award should always be paid in full, at a time when the Government that you led was not implementing those pay review awards, like last…
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25
Will you take an intervention?
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Business Statement and Announcement
Leader of the house, is it possible to have an oral statement from the Deputy First Minister in relation to the Natural Resources Wales tax fine? I appreciate a written statement was issued yesterday, but £19 million was paid on account and there’s more to be…
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Questions to the First Minister
Can I suggest you know what your Ministers are saying when they're on the media round? The Minister herself, actually, said there is very little amount of time left to deliver this manifesto commitment—15 months, she said, in her words. So, it's not me saying…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm sorry, First Minister, but the words of the delivery Minister on Sunday were that a backbencher in the Labour Party was going to do a rapid deep-dive of each planning application that came in. You, in your response to me, clearly indicate that you haven't…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. As my colleague Mark Isherwood highlighted, we learned on the weekend that the Member for Llanelli is now, I presume, part of the Government, because he will be, in the Minister for Delivery's words, doing—well, these are your…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Council-owned farms
Sorry. My point is that you're losing the crown jewels of these local authorities, and the Government does have a role to play in safeguarding that, along with local authorities.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Council-owned farms
I'm grateful to the Minister for taking the intervention. The numbers you just gave—900-odd holdings, 21,000 hectares—is still a significant estate across the whole of Wales, in fairness. But as someone who comes from the Vale of Glamorgan, back in 1997 the…
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Topical Questions
Residents in my regional constituency of South Wales Central, if they live in the western Vale, basically look to the Princess of Wales Hospital for the bulk of their referrals. I would ask the Cabinet Secretary: when did the Government become aware of this?…
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Questions to the First Minister
I appreciate, by your own words, you have greater influence on Donald Trump than you do on Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, so maybe you don’t know what’s in the budget, but speaker after speaker, speaking on behalf of the Labour Government, from the…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, when the Conservatives left office in July, we had the fastest growing G7 economy, we had inflation back to 2 per cent and we had unemployment at record low levels. That is a fact. But the point I am making to you, First Minister, is quite…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, yesterday, you were at Keir Starmer's investment summit, and the good news coming out of that summit was that there's £60 billion-worth of investment coming into the UK, building on the previous two conferences…
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Questions to the First Minister
I very much hope that the inquiry will get to the bottom of this and, actually, give some form of closure and comfort, if that's the right word, to the victims, because they will always have the memories of the horrors that were inflicted on them, but by…
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Questions to the First Minister
One of the comments that has come forward is the quite clear remark at the start of the programme, which talks of how he was able to hide for so long. Now, that is a legitimate question that many of the victims and, indeed, anyone looking at it with an…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, I'm sure you were alarmed and disturbed by the BBC programme that's going to be broadcast tomorrow night, that is on the iPlayer for people to view today, about Neil Foden, the disgraced headteacher from north…
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Questions to the First Minister
It can't come quick enough, First Minister. The other point that is a discrepancy within Welsh schools is the inability to test performance. Now, the Welsh Government has not instigated the international testing regime so that we can understand exactly what…
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Questions to the First Minister
The real worry here, First Minister, is that, for many years, the evidence has pointed to moving away from the cue system of teaching reading to phonics. The evidence is there, and it has been adopted in other parts of the United Kingdom and has seen…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, last week, there was a report by ITN news that highlighted the appalling state of reading skills within our schools. You have to go back to 2012, because that's the most recent data, and, at that time, it showed…
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Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
The First Minister, in her opening remarks, tried to paint a picture of non-co-operation in the 14 years of the Conservative Government in Westminster. I find that bizarre, when you think there was a referendum for further law-making powers for this place in…
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Questions to the First Minister
I think we've seen that two-way working by the withdrawal of the winter fuel payment, where Labour Members have been deathly silent and yet 400,000 homes will lose that payment this year, costing Welsh pensioners £110 million. But I asked you a simple…
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Questions to the First Minister
It was a serious offer, First Minister, but regrettably, 50,000 people have joined those waiting lists here in Wales. I can remember raising with the First Minister in previous sessions whether the Welsh Government was going to take up the second offer scheme…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Last week, we had the waiting time figures here in Wales, which regrettably showed another increase in terms of people waiting on NHS waiting lists. Just shy of 800,000 procedures are now on those waiting lists and in excess of…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
There would be more credibility in this black-hole argument if, actually, the Labour Party had the power of their conviction and put this commitment to maintain the winter fuel allowance in their manifesto. They did it in 2010, they did it in 2015, they did…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
What about the guy who works in our local ironmonger who's going to find himself £13 over the threshold? He's going to lose that £300. I agree that there's a debating point about people who pay 40 per cent and 45 per cent tax, but with what your Government is…
