Welsh Labour

Speeches and questions

Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

914 speeches and questions

16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
We provide a range of consultancy support, with our specialist operators, the Waste and Resources Action Programme, and indeed we’ve also provided financial support in helping local authorities to move away from co-mingling, to actually have source-separated…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
We are taking forward a wide range of measures to continue to improve recycling across Wales. These include the introduction of the new workplace recycling laws alongside the continued work to increase household recycling. Our partnership approach has already…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
We have real opportunities to do just that. We already see AI being deployed across our health service. The challenge is how much more we can do, in particular in the area of imaging and diagnostics, where AI can assist clinicians to make diagnoses. It should…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you. The Welsh Government has continued to deliver against the digital and data strategy for health and social care. We continue to establish and work collaboratively with the AI commission. We've adopted guidance on algorithmic transparency, and…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
In terms of Newport, and I'll restrict myself to Newport, so I don't transgress into constituency matters myself, there are opportunities for new rail stations in the Newport area. There are also opportunities to improve rapid bus links between Cardiff and…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
We are gearing up to work in genuine partnership with the new UK Government, building on the productive work of Lord Burns and Lord Hendy. Lord Hendy, of course, is now a Minister in the UK Government. All of this should help us to improve integrated…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'm really glad the Member has highlighted this. It's part of the conversation I had with the then shadow Chancellor immediately before the election of the UK Labour Government. I also had this conversation with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you. In the under two weeks since the election, I have had conversations with the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, all of whom have demonstrated an understanding of the many ways we can…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
If the Member had listened to my response to Adam Price, he would have heard that I'm open to improvements. I'm always open to seeing what we could do differently and better. There is yet to be a new system in place across the UK, and, when we look at changes…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Well, I've set out, not only today, but on a number of occasions, points about my integrity that have simply not been accepted by other people. I don't think changing the ministerial code or the way it's investigated would change much about that. That's just…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Paragraph 1.7 of the ministerial code sets out how complaints will be investigated.
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I should have said, in response to the first question, that Welsh Government has committed to undertaking an exercise—I think it's been written to her about—which is going to ensure that the information we have is robust and accurate, and we'll provide an…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Well, I look forward to what we can practically do, and the approach we have in looking at the blueprints that were started by my colleague Jane Hutt during her time in a different role in the Government to see what we can actually undertake to make a…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The landscape for independent sexual violence adviser funding is complex. Many specialist sector posts are funded by multiple sources, including the Welsh Government's violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence budget, UK Government…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The Member is entitled to say he opposes the UK Government that’s just been elected across the UK, and indeed with the support of 27 out of 32 Welsh MPs. He’s entitled to say he disagrees with it and that he wants to have a constant challenge. He’s entitled…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I think people can be very positive about what we have done in the last 25 years. People in Wales have chosen to elect Welsh Labour to continue to lead devolution, from the outset. We've had to work across party lines to do so, but we still have a remarkable…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for the speech and the couple of questions. I think when you go through everything that's happened, you can be clear—. And go back through the points that the Member has tried to make again in the smearing that takes place. The solar farm is nothing…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I will continue to be the First Minister until this place chooses a successor and the King appoints the chosen successor that this place will elect. I've been clear that the executive of Welsh Labour, to be correct, will determine not just the rules but the…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Of course we can, and whatever happens in the leadership contest to come, the people of Wales will decide who comes to this place in an expanded Senedd. Then it will be for everyone who is elected here to make choices about how the Government of Wales…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Yet again the Member demonstrates his good faith. I look forward to people in Wales continuing to exercise their judgment at the ballot box. It's for all of us to try to persuade people to vote for us and the vision we provide. I am very clear about my own…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'm very proud of the record of the previous Labour Government that I knocked doors for, campaigned for and saw come in in 1997. That Government lifted hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty by deliberate choices. Over half a million children were…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
There are two things there. The first is that, just in terms of the data that the child measurement programme provides for us, it actually shows that, since the pandemic, we have slightly fewer children who are obese or overweight. The challenge, though, is…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The Member is right to point out the shocking reality that malnutrition is a reality in twenty-first century Wales. There is a direct correlation with the tax and benefit reforms that have taken place. The impact of tax and benefit reforms from 2010 until now…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for the question. The Welsh Government recognises the importance of a healthy diet and good nutrition. We support this through a range of initiatives, including the Healthy Start scheme, free school meals for primary pupils and measures to support…
16 July 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Some councils have been building homes. It’s the ability to do that at the scale that’s required that’s the challenge. It’s why the affordable homes taskforce has been created, to understand how you can bring forward and get through obstacles that exist…