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Questions to the First Minister
That is the ambition that we have, of course—to have a service in Neath Port Talbot and here in the hospital in Cardiff that can provide a service at a standard where the bodies responsible for providing licences to the local institute can do so. The other…
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I thank Jenny Rathbone for that. There are three players involved in efforts to make sure that that service can continue. There is the Wales Fertility Institute itself; they are the primary players, and it's primarily their responsibility to make sure that…
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Well, Llywydd, there are three centres that provide these service to people in Wales: the Wales Fertility Institute, as Rhys ab Owen asked me, which operates from Neath Port Talbot Hospital and from the University Hospital of Wales, here in Cardiff; in north…
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Well, Dirprwy Lywydd, it's not for me to offer such a guarantee, because any provider of IVF services has to be licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. The Wales Fertility Institute was visited by the authority in January of this year…
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Well, Llywydd, the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee commissions IVF services on behalf of all health boards in Wales. All fertility clinics in the UK are governed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Access criteria are standard…
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And thank you, of course, for sending me a copy of the report. I have been able to read at least the summary of it, with the main recommendations. Dirprwy Lywydd, as I said in my original answer to Heledd Fychan—and it is equally true in the childcare…
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Thank you to Jane Dodds.
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Dirprwy Lywydd, I do expect the Warm Homes programme to be implemented by the end of this financial year. The tender documents are ready. In the meantime, we have extended existing arrangements to tide us over until the new programme can be implemented.
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Well, Llywydd, of course I agree with Alun Davies. Nothing that we heard in the autumn statement last week will help us with any of those recommendations in the report focused on looking at how we can best help those people at the sharpest end of the…
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Well, I thank Heledd Fychan, Dirprwy Lywydd. I have seen a document with a response to all of the recommendations that have been prepared by the Government. Now, I'm not sure, to tell you the truth, whether that's gone straight to the expert group and hasn't…
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Dirprwy Lywydd, I thank Heledd Fychan for the question. Areas of recommendation where progress has been made include housing and homelessness, income maximisation, and reducing the cost of the school day. But let me be clear: the Welsh Government does not…
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I'll make sure the Minister writes to the Member with the clarity he seeks.
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Llywydd, working with Transport for Wales, we continue to develop a metro system for Swansea bay to deliver safe, accessible and affordable public transport for the region. This work will inform regional transport plans, which are due to be submitted by the…
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Well, Llywydd, I well remember the promises that were made at the time of privatisation—how this was going to be yet another magic bullet, if only you handed it over to somebody else, the service would be better run, it would be more effectively run, it would…
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As a reserved matter, monitoring of postal services and the Royal Mail lies in the hands of the UK Government. Royal Mail has failed to meet its obligations to people in Wales over recent years and the Welsh Government raises this at every opportunity.
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I agree with the points that the Member makes. We won't have informal conversations with NICE; I don't think that would be right or proper. We will quite definitely represent the views of the Welsh NHS and Welsh patients in the consultation exercise, and that…
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Diolch yn fawr, Sarah Murphy. I certainly agree that the voice of the patient needs to be heard very clearly in the consultation and those individual stories need to be fed through to both NICE and to the manufacturer as well. It's a very important job we ask…
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First of all, I completely understand the anxiety that the consultation has caused for so many families. I want to make completely clear to people that anybody who is currently a beneficiary of these drugs will continue to be so, including those younger…
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I thank Darren Millar for that question. The cystic fibrosis treatments Kaftrio, Symkevi, Orkambi and Kalydeco are all today routinely available in Wales, in accordance with the commercial access agreement reached with the manufacturer in 2020. Future use is…
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Thanks to Jack Sargeant for this, and thank you to Jack for all the work that he has done to highlight this issue and for the meetings that I've been able to have with him and with other players in this field. The Welsh Government continues to encourage local…
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Look, I hope that all those jobs absolutely will be realised. They will be jobs in parts of Wales where it's sometimes been difficult to find new economic opportunities, and they will be jobs that will allow young people who want to stay and make their…
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I thank Jane Dodds for the question.
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Well, I thank the Member for that supplementary question, and for the consistent interest he takes in this matter and the huge opportunities that I know he believes—and I share that belief—are there for residents in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire. I…
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Llywydd, by 2035, we want 100 per cent of our annual electricity consumption to come from renewable sources while also retaining wealth and value in Wales. We are streamlining planning and consenting processes, working to secure an effective energy grid and…
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I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for that, Llywydd, and it's exactly what I meant in my original answer when I said that, in order to confirm the resilience of the primary care sector in Wales, we have to use the talents of all those people who work in the…
