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I thank Hefin David for that, and, Llywydd, it is fitting that, today, we are remembering J.P.R. Williams on the rugby field, but also in the contribution that he went on to make in the Welsh NHS for so many years. Well, like the Member, I welcome the fact…
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Llywydd, independent providers, through contracts with local health boards for their services, deliver primary healthcare. The Welsh Government sets policy and funding for the NHS, and there's a need to work in accordance with that policy and funding in…
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I thank Mike Hedges for that. He points directly to one of the reasons why the bus Bill is so important, because these are private companies, they make profits out of the public money that is invested in them, and the public has a legitimate right to be…
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I thank Mike Hedges. Llywydd, by the end of this financial year, over £200 million of Government funding will have been provided to protect our bus network since the onset of the COVID pandemic. A regional network planning team is devising a future network of…
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I thank the Member because it's an important point that he raises, and I think the system more generally is more alert to and responsive to that range of young people with communication needs. It's good to know that the WJEC has made such a positive response…
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I thank the Member for that, Llywydd. Our education reforms, including the new curriculum and the additional learning needs system, help ensure disabled children’s needs are met by the right people in the right place. Our investments in speech, language and…
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Llywydd, I thank the Member for those points and for the work I know he has done to highlight this issue in his own local area, because it is a very serious issue that faces communities. Actually, the availability of screening in mid Wales has improved since…
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I thank the Member for that, Llywydd. In Wales free online test kits for sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses are available from the Sexual Health Wales service. This offer increases access to sexual health testing across mid Wales. Test…
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Well, Llywydd, the Welsh Government has welcomed the report. We're always grateful for the work that the society does in representing people who suffer from asthma and other lung conditions here in Wales. The Minister will have referred it to the group who…
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I thank the Member for that supplementary question, Llywydd, and she is right to draw attention to that pilot programme. Its novelty is that it offers CT scans to asymptomatic patients. So, doctors identify people who smoke, because smoking remains the single…
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I thank the Member for that question, Llywydd. The Welsh Government has regular discussions with health boards regarding services for people with lung conditions. That includes immunisation uptake, accurate diagnosis, chronic condition management…
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Well, Llywydd, I thank Jack Sargeant for that. It's an important question in the tourism industry, because he's right that buried away in the autumn statement was another mean measure by the Conservative Government to reduce the terms and conditions of…
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Well, Llywydd, thank you very much to Mabon ap Gwynfor for the positive things that he has said today about what is available here in Wales for people who want to visit us. Natural Resources Wales, like every service here in Wales, is under financial…
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I'm simply trying to correct a very misleading impression that the Member made in his supplementary question, that somehow the fall in international visitors to Wales was because of unique actions made here in Wales. It was no such thing. And as I say very…
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Well, well. Where to start, really, with a Farage—. Farage—he'll be there with you soon, I expect. Let's begin with just one. Let's begin with just one point. The decision to close the borders so that tourists weren't able to come to Wales was not a decision…
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Llywydd, we take steps to lengthen the tourism season in Wales, to encourage visitors to enjoy the wider range of attractions we have to offer, and to spend more money while they are in north Wales and beyond.
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Well, Llywydd, all Members here will have received a letter with an extensive report attached to it from the chief executive of the ambulance trust. I think it was issued to everybody last week. It talks about the plans of the trust for this coming winter…
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That will be for the health board to determine in its discussions with that local community and with those family doctors who operate out of St Clears and who, up until now, have provided services directly in Laugharne. As I said in my answer to Cefin…
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As I said in my original response, Llywydd, primary care is under pressure in all parts of Wales, and that is true in Hywel Dda too. I'm aware of the fact that the GP practice in St Clears has asked the health board to withdraw some of the services that…
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Primary care services remain under real pressure in Mid and West Wales. Yet across the country more than 1.5 million contacts with the service take place every month. Diversification of the workforce has been key to sustaining primary care in an era of…
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Well, Llywydd, the leader of Plaid Cymru continues his obsessive interest in the affairs of the Labour Party. If we heard a little bit from him about the affairs of his own party, we'd be better informed than we are. These things are nothing at all to do with…
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Well, Llywydd, it's not a wrong; it has always been the right decision to give those families the answers that they need. They simply would never have got those answers through a Wales-only inquiry in which, as UK Ministers have made it plain, they would not…
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Well, Llywydd, I don't recognise what the leader of Plaid Cymru has said at all. There were debates earlier on in the process. The Deputy Minister appeared in front of a Senedd committee and gave extensive evidence there. No calls were made by that inquiry…
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Well, Llywydd, first of all, let me just put on record my thanks to those people who came forward with the allegations that led to the independent review carried out within the Welsh Rugby Union. They were brave women to come forward, and the WRU has…
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Well, Llywydd, the letter from the Deputy Minister was received this morning. I have immediately instructed, through the Permanent Secretary, that such an investigation should be carried out. The timing of it is not in my hands. The timing is in the hands of…
