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Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I call for a statement from the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy on access to banking services in Wales? I appreciate that banking is not a devolved matter, but banking services really do matter to people across the…
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Questions to the First Minister
You know, I was listening to the radio this morning and I heard one of the commentators talking about it being a bad week for NATS; I thought they were talking about the Welsh nats, but actually, they were talking about the National Air Traffic Services, as…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, last week, the UK Government published the inflation figures. They showed that inflation was up, with prices rising by 3.1 per cent in the year to August, and of course economists forecast that that increase in inflation will…
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Papers to note
A separate piece of action, yes.
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Papers to note
Just one. First of all, apologies for being slightly late, Chair. I thought it was an interesting document. You're quite right, it didn't appear to fully appreciate the devolved nations' aspect of things, in my view, but there were some interesting points…
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Reform UK Debate: Grooming gangs
I'm very grateful to you for taking the intervention. There's a direct parallel here, isn't there? Your party stood alongside my party calling for a Wales-specific COVID inquiry, because even though the UK COVID inquiry was charged with investigating matters…
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Reform UK Debate: Grooming gangs
Diolch, Lywydd. I welcome the motion that's been tabled today by Reform, and I move the amendment tabled in the name of my colleague Paul Davies. I want to thank Paul Marr for the measured way in which he opened this debate and spoke so powerfully about his…
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Statement by the First Minister: Weather, wildfires, drought and resilience
Thank you, First Minister, for your statement today. I think it's absolutely right that we're discussing this on the first day back in the Senedd after what was a devastating summer for many people affected by these wildfires. I also want to put on record my…
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Questions to the First Minister
You say that it's your No. 1 priority, and you say that you want to co-operate with others in order to improve the NHS. I looked very carefully at the declaration that you signed yesterday alongside those other nationalist leaders, and let me tell you, there…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, yesterday, while you were plotting the break-up of the United Kingdom with your friends in Sinn Féin and the Scottish National Party, there were people waiting for ambulances for too long, people in our emergency departments for too long on…
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2026-27
Budgets are about priorities, they're about choices, and I'm afraid that this supplementary budget gets those things wrong. As the Cabinet Minister herself said, this budget honours the previous Welsh budget to the decimal point. And that's the point. That's…
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2026-27
Mike, your comments are noted. So, that agreement—[Interruption.]
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2026-27
Well, Llywydd, former US President Lyndon B. Johnson once said that the first rule of politics is to be able to count. It's a simple rule, but it's one that the Cabinet Minister for Finance clearly didn't think about when she was putting her supplementary…
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Statement by the First Minister: Legislation
Most of Wales voted against yours too.
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Statement by the First Minister: Legislation
First Minister, you've had months to prepare for your legislative statement today, for this moment, in this Chamber, and I have to say, is this it? Is this all you've got to offer the people of Wales? You tried to present yourself as a Government in waiting…
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Questions to the First Minister
Look, First Minister, we all agree that we need to get to grips with litter and improve even further our recycling rates, but we've already got a by-election this summer with a man dressed up as a bin; the last thing we need is another row about rubbish…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Lywydd. If you'll indulge me, I'd like to pay tribute, on behalf of the Welsh Conservatives, to Bonnie Tyler. Tributes have poured in, of course, across Wales about the loss of this Welsh icon, a singer with global fame and impact, a unique artist…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
No society should tolerate child sexual exploitation in any way, shape or form, but, unfortunately, Cabinet Minister, we do know that grooming gangs have been operating in Wales. We know that from victims, brave victims, who've come forward, victims who often…
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Debate: Fair Funding
Diolch, Lywydd. I move the amendment tabled in the name of Paul Davies. I'd like to make one thing absolutely clear at the outset of this debate, and that is that the Welsh Conservatives believe that Wales should get its fair share of funding. We believe that…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I call for a statement on the future of independent schools in Wales? Just last week in Ruthin, in my own constituency, we saw the announcement of the closure of Ruthin School. It survived 700 years, including the civil war, but it couldn't survive two…
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Questions to the First Minister
—and hundreds of jobs are being lost. Can I ask you, First Minister, what discussions are you having with the Independent Schools Council here in Wales about the challenges that they're facing? And will you now petition, as a Welsh Government, the UK…
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Questions to the First Minister
You just need to get on with it, right. You set out a 100-day plan. You're over two thirds of the way through that and there's very little, apparently, that appears to be changing. As you know, your budget deals have undermined our education system. We have a…
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Questions to the First Minister
If I can just correct you on one thing, First Minister: the problems we have in Wales are not just down to 27 years of the Labour Party; they're down to Labour-Plaid budget deals in recent years, which have undermined our public services and ruined things…
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Papers to note
The figures are totally inadequate, aren't they, in terms of the borrowing limits. I think we ought to respond to say that. It's likely that there's going to be a new Prime Minister very soon, isn't it, and there could be a different view, potentially. So, I…
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Papers to note
Obviously, we do get written statements as well on the outcome of these meetings, tabled before the Senedd. But I wonder whether there's an opportunity for us to ask and work with our equivalent committees in other Parliaments about observer status at some of…
