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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, Mike Hedges reminds us of some important ways in which council house building was possible in the past on a bipartisan basis. People forget that Aneurin Bevan was the Minister for housing as well as the Minister for health, and he put more…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, we're committed to delivering 20,000 new low-carbon homes for rent in the social sector and have allocated record levels of funding, including more than doubling Swansea's funding since 2020-21. The first statistical release demonstrating progress…
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Questions to the First Minister
In many ways, the core of the problem was set out in the question, which is that dentists are private businesses; they are contractors. They cannot be made to work for the NHS. And we have seen, to a very small extent, in fact, some dentists in Wales move out…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, thank you for the question, of course.
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, my advice to them is to seek advice from their clinician and then to make an assessment that only they can make. There's no possible advice that either the Member or I can give to people standing here. They should get clinical advice, and then they…
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Questions to the First Minister
And while it's very difficult to hear the sort of case that the Member has outlined this afternoon, it's still important to say that, even if you take the figures that are published by the private sector themselves—and, of course, they are there to make the…
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Questions to the First Minister
The Member knows that it's impossible for me to respond to a case when I'm hearing the details for the first time in the Chamber. As I said in the original answer, I want to see an NHS in Wales that can provide services to people in a timely way, in every…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Llyr Gruffydd for the question. I want to see an NHS that can respond to need in a clinically timely way and that is available to all who choose to use it. The NHS provides almost all of the primary and emergency care provided in Wales. Where patients…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, where to start? If I was the Member, I would have crossed out the line she was given about coalition, having heard the discussion on the floor of the Senedd this afternoon. What you've seen is the co-operation agreement work as it was always…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Hefin David for that, Llywydd. The expert group that was established as part of the co-operation agreement has carried out its work. Its report has been received; we published it on 10 November. We're very grateful to the members of that group for the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well—[Laughter.]—I thank Hefin David for raising the standard of debate here in the Senedd this afternoon. By working together, we have made real progress on a range of joint commitments that have a direct impact on people's ability to manage during this…
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Questions to the First Minister
I powerfully welcome the Gordon Brown report, and I powerfully welcome its very specific commitment that the devolution of criminal justice will begin with the next Labour Government. And let's be clear, Llywydd: only a Labour Government will ever be able to…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I'm more of an optimist than the leader of Plaid Cymru, but I'm always more of an optimist about Wales than Plaid Cymru is on almost every point. [Interruption.] Yes, I know. They hate it when you point out to them that every time they get to their…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, I don't agree with the final point that the leader of Plaid Cymru raised. I don't think that people in Wales will be willing to support the point that he made, and I think that the most important thing about the Welsh language is to maintain the support…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, let me give the Member just two examples of the actions we can take in the immediate term. One—and there'll be a statement on this next week by the Minister for Health and Social Services—will be to increase the bed capacity of the NHS over this…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I do understand that the headline numbers disguise the fact that many of those people will not be working full time and that patterns of work in the health service have altered. But even if you look at those full-time-equivalent figures, there are…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I want to distinguish between two things. And I thought it was a brave statement by the new leader of the BMA to recognise that, on many occasions in the past, the word 'crisis' has been used by the BMA, and that has devalued that term. The two…
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Questions to the First Minister
Can I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for that? He makes a very important point. The Gordon Brown report yesterday does indeed propose a legal duty of co-operation between the four nations of the United Kingdom. That legal duty would be something that would be…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank the Member for that question. I think what is absolutely beyond doubt is the fact that Wales has offered a very generous welcome to people from Ukraine. When we opened the Welsh platform, we anticipated 1,000 people coming to Wales as a result of it…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, it's always been a mystery to me as to why student visas are always reported as part of that global immigration total. If you look at all the surveys of public opinion, even parts of public opinion that have anxieties about immigration are not…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, our commitment to Wales being a nation of sanctuary is undiminished. We work with others to welcome those who arrive in Wales, but, regrettably, many of the UK Government’s immigration policies, such as the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, hamper…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I thank the Member for those further practical suggestions. As I said in my answer to the local Member for Ynys Môn, the Welsh Government continues to be open to discussions at official level, and with people on the ground, to make sure we have…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, I thank Rhun ap Iorwerth for that supplementary question. Of course, we're thinking about local businesses that have seen an impact following the closure of the bridge. And when Lee Waters was in north Wales, he announced a number of things that we can…
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Questions to the First Minister
Good afternoon, of course. On his visit to Menai Bridge on Wednesday of last week, the Deputy Minister for Climate Change announced a package of support to ease the transport pressures on people travelling to and from Anglesey. This included traffic flow…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Wales COVID-19 inquiry special purpose committee
That is the body that will be able to scrutinise those decisions made by the Welsh Government and other Welsh bodies, which drew on the relationships between decisions made in Wales and Whitehall, the scientific advice that was received, not just in Wales…
