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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, let me just put a few facts on the record here. We have a system in which, absolutely, month after month, we assess the state of pressure in our primary care services. The latest figures show that 86 per cent of GP practices report the lowest…
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Resilience is achieved through diversification of the workforce, making the maximum use of all clinically qualified staff, and strong collaboration and integration between all aspects of primary care, using an accelerated cluster model in order to do so.
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Well, Llywydd, thanks to Sam Rowlands for that. I'm encouraged by the progress that has been made through Ambition North Wales in the creation of the CJC, and that's why I was able, in my answer to Siân Gwenllian, to point to the project that we are jointly…
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I thank Siân Gwenllian for that supplementary question and, of course, I understand why she, as the local Member, is drawing attention once again to Parc Bryn Cegin. The news is better. It's been a long time coming, but it is coming now. Three of the nine…
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I thank Siân Gwenllian for the question. The Welsh Government is currently discussing with private sector developers and Ambition North Wales to progress proposals for Parc Bryn Cegin. Interest in the site has increased, and it's expected that more use of the…
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Well, I'll put things positively to him, because I don't share his constantly negative view of the world. I'll put it positively to him that successive Welsh Governments have made efforts to move funding out of secondary care and into primary care. And I can…
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Llywydd, it seems to me we repeat this game every week, in which the leader of Plaid Cymru wants to ask me highly speculative questions about a Government that hasn't been elected, and I'm just not going to indulge him in that. My efforts, and the efforts of…
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I wonder if I need to remind the leader of Plaid Cymru that health has been a devolved matter in Wales since 1999. We make decisions here in Wales for the Welsh health service and we will continue to do so. What is said in Westminster—where I know is where he…
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I thank the leader of the opposition for drawing attention to that. It’s a hugely sensitive issue and it must be absolutely awful for farmers who find themselves in that position. The Minister has asked the new technical advisory group that we are setting…
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Llywydd, first of all, let me acknowledge the emotional and mental health impact that farmers experience when, after many years of investment, in many cases, in building up herds, they find that TB requires them to take such dramatic action. And it's why the…
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Llywydd, I'm very happy to confirm there is no Welsh Government policy of that sort.
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Well, thank you to Carolyn Thomas for that, Llywydd. And, of course, the Member is right to allude to the fact that, when bus services were marketised and privatised, the Government of the time introduced a prohibition on the further municipalisation of…
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Well, Llywydd, I thank Adam Price for that point. I'm aware of the fact that buses are available at present in Carmarthenshire after the Bwcabus services, and what I understand is that the Government is willing for Carmarthenshire to keep the buses—there are…
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Well, Llywydd, I don't think the fact that the work has not been completed should be taken as evidence that the work is not going on, because the work is progressing. It has been progressing on that regional footprint. Local authorities, working with others…
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I thank the Member for that question, Llywydd. Local authorities have been asked to plan a network and prioritise routes that best serve the needs of their citizens. They are supported in that work by Transport for Wales and Welsh Government officials.
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Llywydd, we know that there are hundreds of thousands of children across the United Kingdom who will be in poverty as a result of the decisions made by the UK Government. That is what the UK Government itself says. That's not something that I am making…
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Llywydd, I have no doubt at all that both organisations to which the Member refers do excellent work and make a difference in the lives of Welsh citizens. The position that the Welsh Government will be in is that there simply isn't money to do all the things…
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Llywydd, the winter is going to be tough for families with children, of course. That's true. But it's tough for all the public services as well, because we don't have sufficient funding to do everything that we want to do. And, at the end of the day, choices…
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Thank you, Llywydd, for that question. Families across Wales are experiencing the largest fall in living standards since records began. That is the bleak context in which the Welsh Government's efforts continue to alleviate the financial pressures, maximise…
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Well, first of all, Llywydd, can I welcome the announcement of that investment in Nexperia, safeguarding those jobs that were put at risk by a decision of the UK Government, which they then walked away from the consequences of that decision, but where we now…
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Llywydd, our regional economic frameworks were co-produced with partners. They're based on evidence and on agreement. They set out a shared approach around a common set of economic priorities, and a commitment to work together to boost existing strengths and…
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Well, I thank the Member for what he said about those decisions—now 15 years and more ago—because I can tell him that the decision of a Labour Government at that time not to join in with the private finance initiative was a brave decision and very much…
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Llywydd, the Welsh Government was a staunch critic of previous forms of private finance and did not undertake any new PFI schemes. As a result, we are largely insulated from the very high revenue cost consequences that have to be paid by public bodies in…
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Llywydd, I thank Alun Davies for that. He is right that Lord Cameron now swells the ever-bloated ranks of the House of Lords, and the Gordon Brown report, Llywydd, which recommends a very slimmed-down House of Lords, with direct elections to it, with…
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Llywydd, the Member read out a long series of Bills, only one of which is one in which there is a devolved interest, and, on that one, on leasehold reform, we will continue to have our conversations with the UK Government, because I believe that leasehold…
