Of the 143 commitments we can track, 123 have come up in the Senedd at least once and 20 have not yet. 6 are too general to match reliably.
A healthy population is the basis for a thriving nation and this government takes seriously the need to rebalance resources towards the prevention of ill health, better access to services and much improved social care. For too long, people in Wales have spent too much time in ill health and services increasingly struggle to keep up with 21st century health conditions and social care demands.
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Cut waiting times and improve delivery of planned care by transforming and modernising outpatient services, expanding diagnostic and surgical capacity and establishing up to 10 surgical hubs across Wales.
Latest figure: NHS waiting list, 714,218, August 2026.
Latest figure: Pathways waiting more than two years, 5,068, August 2026.
Ensure integrated care is delivered closer to home with prevention at its core, to support earlier diagnosis, reduced admissions and delays in discharge.
Latest figure: Delays in leaving hospital, 1,417, September 2026.
Strengthen national clinical pathways for all age groups, with a particular focus on mental health, stroke, diabetes, ophthalmology and cardiovascular care, to ensure safe, equitable and high‑quality care across Wales, embedding patients’ rights and reducing regional variation. The ambition for NHS Wales will be set out through a National Clinical Services Plan.
Deliver a National Cancer Strategy focused on prevention, earlier diagnosis, research and innovation, equitable access to services and more person‑centred cancer care.
Build a sustainable and skilled workforce through the delivery of a long‑term workforce strategy which increases the number of GPs by up to 100, improving access to out‑of‑hours care, reduces pressure on hospitals and Accident & Emergency departments, and supports flexible working and continued professional development.
Improve access to dental services, including exploring options to establish a new dental school in partnership with Aberystwyth University and Bangor University, and ensuring health boards assess local dentistry needs and take reasonable steps to ensure sufficient dental provision for their populations.
Review and, where necessary, strengthen or change organisational and governance structures to improve the effectiveness and accountability of the system.
Deliver safeguarding reform that strengthens the protection of children and adults through clearer accountability, stronger leadership and better use of data and intelligence to drive continuous improvement in practice.
Families and businesses are feeling the financial impact of decisions taken in Westminster and the consequences of destabilising events across the world. Using the limited levers that we currently have, we will take action to mitigate the impact on Wales, by growing our economy and creating the conditions to fulfil our potential. We will also take immediate action to relieve the cost of living pressures that so many citizens are experiencing and provide them with crucial support to help them through this difficult period and beyond.
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Deliver a transformative and universal new Childcare Offer for children from the age of 9 months to 4 years, building progressively to 20 hours of funded childcare a week for 48 weeks a year, while maintaining the existing 30‑hour offer for eligible 3‑ and 4‑year‑olds.
Introduce a single, streamlined application system so families can easily access funded childcare.
Our ambitions for Wales rest on a flourishing economy that fuels our public services, creates fulfilling and rewarding jobs, and provides the foundation for a stronger future.
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Progress our productivity mission which will consider all government activity with reference to driving up productivity.
Latest figure: Productivity, 84.9, 2023.
Establish a new Economic and Fiscal Commission to help us set targets, collect relevant data and measure progress to make government more accountable for its economic decision making.
The skills of our people are amongst our most valuable resources. Built up across every stage of life, they support our public services, fuel our economy and contribute to our own quality of life. Building on the foundation of our funded Childcare Offer, our education system provides a springboard for children and young people to gain knowledge, develop the skills they need throughout life and to be part of the thriving economic future we see for Wales.
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Publish a Literacy and Numeracy Plan and raise standards by establishing national targets, including a baseline assessment for learners entering school. We will support our workforce to develop individual targets for all learners.
Review curriculum and assessment arrangements to simplify and clarify expectations for schools and settings. This will include ensuring clear expectations for knowledge and education about our nation’s culture and history.
Tackling child poverty is a defining mission of this government. It is both a moral imperative and an investment in Wales’s future.
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Work with partners to develop and deliver a new plan to tackle child poverty, setting clear targets, benchmarks and milestones to drive ambitious, deliverable change.
Latest figure: Children in relative poverty, 32%, the three years to 31 March 2025.
Press the UK government to use the levers they have, including removing the benefit cap, increasing Local Housing Allowance, and introducing social tariffs to deliver real change for families living in poverty.
As a government, we will not apologise for the ambitious vision that we have for Wales. This vision is explicit in every chapter of this Programme for Government. We believe in our people and will take every step possible to unlock their potential and to build a fairer, stronger, more resilient Wales.
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Pursue fiscal reform, including fairness in the way Wales is funded, the operation of the Barnett Formula, greater fiscal flexibilities, fair funding of devolved powers, and further responsibilities for the Senedd over taxes in Wales.
Fight for the rail funding we are owed and that we need to invest in Welsh rail – including consequential funding from HS2 – and for rail to be devolved.
This is an ambitious and far-reaching Programme for Government which sets a clear agenda for the whole of government and our partners for the coming 4 years. We know that taking traditional approaches to government is not going to achieve the scale of change that we want.
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Ensure climate action and nature are prioritised and effectively coordinated across government, embedding decarbonisation, sustainability and environmental protection across all portfolios.
Take bold action to improve air quality, reduce waste and tackle pollution by keeping materials in use for longer, and ensuring the polluter pays as we transition to a circular economy.
Latest figure: Recycling rate, 68.4%, 2024-25.
The commitments are the points listed after each “We will:” in the Programme, quoted exactly. The English and Welsh versions sometimes break a commitment into points differently, so we split or joined points to put each English commitment beside its Welsh counterpart. These are the changes:
Improve health and care outcomes and experiences for women and girls including through a strengthened NHS Wales Women’s Health Plan, ensuring women are heard, listened to and actively involved in shaping the services they use and the decisions that affect their care. We will also continue to deliver improved outcomes for women, families and babies through our broader maternity and neonatal care initiatives.
Improve outcomes for people living with dementia through earlier diagnosis, timely access to assessment and treatment including strengthened support and prevention as well as the publication of a Dementia Strategy.
Work to address the key challenges facing palliative and end of life care.
Improve access to mental health support including same‑day access pathways and strengthen the no wrong door approach.
Latest figure: Mental health assessments within 28 days, 83.7%, June 2026.
Embed an outcomes‑focused approach to health and care, using evidence, data and patient experience to shape, deliver and improve services that achieve better health outcomes for the people of Wales.
Develop a Sustainable Health and Care Facilities programme, prioritising high‑risk maintenance and urgent repairs, modernisation and more efficient utilisation of the estate.
Implement a 10‑year Digital Strategy that promotes innovation and the strategic use of AI and other emerging technologies across NHS Wales, improves health literacy, and strengthens the use of data to enhance patient outcomes, informs decision‑making and delivers more effective services.
Expand Welsh‑medium early years provision through our new Childcare Offer.
Work closely with childcare providers to build capacity across the sector and grow the workforce in order to absorb the expansion.
Improve the Welsh Benefits System to make support easier to access and fit for purpose.
Press the UK government to devolve social security so that we can design and deliver made in Wales social protections that better reflect the needs and values of our people and communities.
Introduce new measures to strengthen the rights and protections of renters, including fair rents, and we will improve the overall quality of rental properties.
Work towards realising a right to adequate housing in Wales.
Latest figure: Homeless people in temporary accommodation, 10,535, 31 July 2026.
Deliver more social housing – at least 20,000 additional social homes by 2030 – and support community‑led housing that meets local needs.
Latest figure: New homes completed, 1,190, April to June 2026.
Latest figure: Homes counted towards the 2021-26 social homes target, 3,530, 2024-25.
Establish Unnos to enable the delivery of more publicly owned, energy efficient homes.
Expand access to retrofitting by adopting a tenure‑neutral, area‑based approach whilst retaining existing energy efficiency schemes for low‑income households.
Focus on the pace of remediation of properties with fire safety defects.
Explore ways to make Council Tax fairer.
Latest figure: Average Band D council tax, £2,283, 2026-27.
Use our devolved tax levers to support essential public services, and design our taxes to support our goals, including helping home buying, and reducing waste in landfill.
Create a new, business‑led National Development Agency, at arms‑length from the Welsh Government, to help Welsh businesses to grow, innovate and trade internationally, secure inward investment, and increase numbers of good quality, well‑paid and sustainable jobs. The agency will work for people across the nation and across the economy.
Reform the Development Bank of Wales and the financial products it offers to support the growth of medium‑sized businesses and ensure that its financing promotes and embeds fair work and a Real Living Wage.
Aim to increase the level spent on procuring goods and services from Wales‑based suppliers towards 70%, using public procurement as a driver of economic growth. We will introduce a new measure of Welsh economic value from public procurement to maximise the economic and social benefits that public spending delivers for Wales.
Develop the supply chain for Welsh timber, using public procurement to stimulate demand, and promote innovation and business growth in the sector, whilst improving resilience and working with the sector to deliver on the Welsh Timber Industrial Strategy.
Adopt a Fair Work First approach to awarding public sector grants, loans and contracts.
Reform and rebalance business rates to better support high street businesses in hospitality, leisure and retail.
Use the Town Centre Taskforce to explore the options around revitalising our town centres including bringing empty properties into use as social housing.
Legislate for a community right to buy to empower communities to take ownership of local assets.
Provide more specialist support to create, grow and sustain new co‑operative, employee‑owned, and social businesses, and improve their access to finance through the Development Bank of Wales.
Develop a Skills Strategy for Wales, informed by a national skills audit, to align skills provision, vocational education and qualifications with current and future economic needs. We will support a system that strengthens pathways into education, training and employment, helping people gain the skills, support and opportunities they need to enter, remain and progress in fair, secure and sustainable work.
Take steps to create a financially sustainable tertiary education system that delivers high‑quality education, skills and research, supports collaboration across the sector, and secures long‑term value from public investment, starting with our independent review of higher education funding.
Work to ensure that young people in Wales can live, study and work in Europe – including by maximising the opportunities for Welsh students that stem from the UK rejoining the Erasmus+ scheme and examining options for the future of the Wales‑specific Taith programme.
Deliver a new Digital Strategy which will support digitisation and innovation in the Welsh economy, drive forward public service digital transformation, and deliver the conditions to support safe and ethical adoption of AI to support productivity and more efficient public services.
Continue to work with UK government and telecoms providers to ensure businesses and homes have access to superfast broadband at a minimum.
Prioritise the resilience of connections across the Menai Strait through short and medium‑term improvements whilst planning for long‑term solutions.
Work with partners to address road resilience in the South‑East Wales corridor.
Promote road safety and ensure that our roads are safely maintained.
Latest figure: People killed on the roads, 91, 2025.
Bring forward a renewed pipeline of short, medium and long‑term priority rail projects.
Create a more integrated public transport network by expanding tap‑on, tap‑off, pay‑as‑you‑go ticketing, introducing simpler and fairer fares across bus and rail to improve services for passengers and communities across Wales, making travel simpler and more affordable.
Continue to provide £1 single bus fares and £3 day tickets for children and young people aged 5‑21 and retain bus passes for over 60s and disabled people.
Latest figure: Bus journeys, 71.7 million, 2024-25.
Transform bus services through franchising, bringing routes, fares and standards under a single publicly accountable system that puts passengers first. We will enhance links between communities through the new North‑South coach service and deliver an integrated network that improves access to services, supports economic growth, and helps reduce carbon emissions.
Latest figure: Bus journeys, 71.7 million, 2024-25.
Deliver a renewed EV strategy for Wales.
Put active travel at the heart of Wales’s transport system, making it a practical, safe and inclusive choice for more everyday journeys. We will reduce barriers to walking, wheeling and cycling to support our ill health prevention mission, and promote wellbeing and economic opportunity.
Put children and young people at the heart of a joined‑up approach to learner travel, strengthening cross‑government working so that public services work together to improve access to education, including by addressing barriers to Welsh‑medium education.
Take a strategic approach to secure Cardiff Airport’s long‑term sustainability and maximise its economic potential.
Work with Welsh ports to strengthen their resilience and maximise their contribution to the Welsh economy, while pursuing full devolution of port regulation.
Support the agriculture sector in Wales in a way that underpins the long‑term sustainability of farm businesses and protects the future of the Welsh family farm in a changing climate. We will evolve and refine the Sustainable Farming Scheme, in strong collaboration with the farming community, so that it supports a thriving agriculture sector to produce food while also progressively delivering key environmental outcomes.
Latest figure: Total income from farming, £505 million, 2025.
Implement a new approach to managing nutrients across catchments, moving away from the “farming by calendar” approach and supporting farmers to reduce agricultural water pollution.
Introduce a new Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) Plan, taking a holistic approach to eradication that is evidence-based and science‑led, incorporating the 3 pillars of cattle, people and wildlife.
Develop a renewed and science‑led Animal Welfare Plan, addressing the welfare of both companion animals and farm animals.
Support a sustainable fishing and aquaculture industry, and the communities that rely on it, as part of the food system and economy.
Deliver a Rural Development Strategy for Wales.
Legislate to require rural proofing of spending plans and policy programmes to ensure they are fully responsive to the needs of rural communities. Deliver a new comprehensive National Food Strategy.
Examine options for extending permitted development rights for single dwellings and converting farm buildings for residential use to improve access to affordable housing in rural areas.
Develop a National Energy Strategy, mapping Wales’s current and future energy needs and setting out a clear, long‑term plan for the infrastructure required to meet them.
Latest figure: Electricity from renewable sources, 8.0 terawatt hours, 2024.
Coordinate action across government and key sectors through delivering a new Renewable Energy Sector Deal.
Latest figure: Electricity from renewable sources, 8.0 terawatt hours, 2024.
Merge Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru, Ynni Cymru and the Welsh Government Energy Service to create a strengthened national energy company to grow community ownership.
Review the 182‑day threshold for holiday accommodation and create clear and reasonable new exemptions where that accommodation would not qualify as a private home.
Work with local authorities to review the effectiveness of existing measures on second homes and holiday lets and assess what further action is needed to help young people remain in their communities and to promote the Welsh language and culture.
Review the role of Visit Wales and consider whether it is the best model for supporting tourism and promoting careers in the industry.
Reform the planning system, so it better serves our people, communities and businesses, building a more connected and prosperous Wales.
Overhaul spatial planning and produce a National Development Framework for Wales that provides renewed vision and oversight on an all‑Wales basis.
Replace the current fragmented and overlapping approaches to marine management by delivering a Marine Planning Framework, built on genuine co‑management with fishers, environmental, community and industry stakeholders.
Develop a coordinated framework bringing together schools, health and social care, and youth services to address behaviour, attendance, wellbeing and educational inequality. These also reflect wider societal issues, and we will work across government to address them. We will improve professional learning, reporting of incidents and information sharing between schools, and test implementation through our Community Schools Plus pilots.
Latest figure: Secondary school attendance, 89.1%, 2025/26.
Strengthen the long‑term sustainability of the Additional Learning Needs system. We will work in partnership, including with health partners, to strengthen system clarity, capacity and workforce confidence to deliver inclusive education in Welsh and English, so that children and young people receive the right support at the right time to meet their needs.
Develop a tertiary education system with clear and coherent learner pathways, supporting lifelong learning and enabling people of all ages to progress confidently between education, training and employment throughout their lives and to reach their full potential.
Reform Academi Seren, building on its strongest elements to support more learners, including from disadvantaged backgrounds, to fulfil their potential and progress into higher education, training or employment including here in Wales.
Strengthen opportunities for young people to fulfil their potential including increasing access to vocational pathways such as junior apprenticeships and ensuring the contribution of youth work is better valued and understood.
Grow the proportion of children and young people receiving Welsh‑medium education, and improve accessibility to Welsh‑medium education, setting local targets to ensure the steady growth of Welsh‑medium provision in all schools.
Latest figure: Year 1 pupils taught Welsh as a first language, 24.7%, 2025/26.
Increase the number of students able to access tertiary pathways in Welsh, supporting and developing the work of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and working with the Coleg and Medr to increase opportunities to study Welsh as a subject.
Support an increase in the number of teachers able to teach through the medium of Welsh, promoting and developing the Welsh‑language skills of practitioners and developing new sabbatical opportunities.
Work with our education workforce and social partners to make teaching an attractive, respected and rewarding career.
Improve recruitment and retention by reducing workload, providing more flexibility for planning, preparation and assessment and supporting high‑quality professional development for all teachers, leaders and teaching assistants.
Latest figure: Qualified teachers, 22,660, 2025/26.
Build on our increase of the Initial Teacher Education Priority Subject Incentive from £15,000 to £20,000 to help attract more teachers into shortage subjects and explore opportunities to increase this further.
Strengthen safeguarding leadership and governance across education by ensuring learners and educators can recognise and report grooming. We will provide comprehensive digital safety and media literacy education, and ensure safeguarding and educational standards are consistently upheld and independently scrutinised.
Seek to pilot Cynnal, a Welsh Child Payment, providing a direct weekly payment for young children in families claiming Universal Credit.
Expand access to free school meals in secondary schools, starting by ensuring that all students in Years 7‑11 from households claiming Universal Credit are able to claim a free school meal, with no income limit. We will align provision with the work on a new National Food Strategy.
Work across all areas of government to end violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence, through a whole‑system, prevention‑led and society‑wide approach.
Support victims and survivors by protecting funding for specialist, survivor‑centred services, and by exempting refuges from the Renting Homes Act to ensure access to safe accommodation.
Work with people with lived experience to advance equality, including LGBTQ+ equality, disabled people’s rights, gender equality and an anti‑racist Wales. We will strengthen delivery and accountability, and report on progress and impact.
Latest figure: Gender pay gap for full-time employees, 1.9%, 2025.
Support the UK government in taking forward a full, trans‑inclusive ban on so‑called ‘conversion therapy’, maximising Welsh Government action to tackle these harmful practices and support survivors.
Uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant and work across public services to improve support for veterans and their families.
Take forward proposals to develop human rights‑based legislation for Wales.
Work with partners to support sanctuary seekers to participate and integrate into Welsh society, helping them rebuild their lives safely and with dignity.
Deliver a national programme to secure and restore disused tips, ensuring every tip is properly monitored, maintained, and managed. We will continue to insist that the UK government funds this work properly and in full.
Establish a Wales‑wide strategy on remediating contaminated land to map, prioritise and progressively restore post‑industrial land so communities are no longer exposed to derelict sites, toxic soils, and polluted waterways. We will continue to press the UK government to fund this restoration.
Seek the devolution of air passenger duty.
Explore new and innovative forms of financing.
Establish a new National Commission for Wales to provide independent advice to the Welsh Government on Wales’s constitutional future, building on the work of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales. The commission will support an inclusive and informed national conversation, build the evidence base for debate and decision‑making, and provide advice on devolution priorities and wider constitutional reform.
Formally request the devolution of the right to decide on the timeline, question, and process for an independence referendum.
Pursue the full devolution of justice and policing to Wales with the urgency this deserves.
Formally request the full devolution of power over water in Wales.
Work to secure devolution of powers for the Senedd to legislate to establish a new economic regulator and planning body for Wales, so all decisions about water are made in Wales for Wales.
Prioritise securing the devolution of the Crown Estate.
Work towards the devolution of powers over broadcasting, including powers to regulate, supervise, and ensure accountability for broadcasting and communications in Wales. We will begin by establishing a Shadow Broadcasting and Communications Authority for Wales to protect and strengthen local and national public service media platforms.
Pursue the full devolution of welfare powers.
Pursue the devolution of further powers on energy regulation and pricing.
Pursue full devolution of port regulation.
Work with the sector including our creative industries to create and deliver a targeted Culture and Sport Strategy for a healthier, wealthier and more resilient Wales.
Prioritise equality of access to the arts, culture, heritage and sport for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, considering how our entry policies can support this.
Bring forward a European Strategy which will include our determination to align with world‑leading European standards in environmental protection, public health and food.
Evolve and progress a comprehensive bilateral cooperation framework with Ireland to strengthen cultural and trading ties.
Develop and implement a comprehensive Diaspora Strategy to promote Wales as a place for diaspora entrepreneurs to invest, and encourage and incentivise recent emigrants to return.
Provide strategic and long‑term support to national governing bodies to attract and host international events in Wales.
Deliver a lasting legacy as hosts of the Tour de France 2027 and Euro 2028 men’s football events.
Build a coherent and effective Welsh public service that is open, cooperative, and focused on improving people’s lives.
Progress plans for a Welsh National School of Government.
Renew the relationship between the Welsh Government and local authorities, ensuring that they are full partners in the design and delivery of public services.
Establish a national approach to coordinate crime prevention and diversion across police forces, NHS Wales, local authorities, schools, and third‑sector partners – sharing best practice and addressing the root causes of crime.
Maintain Welsh Government support for Police Community Support Officers within the context of negotiations on devolution of policing.
Bring forward a Welsh Tribunals Bill early in the Senedd term, to create a clearer, more coherent and more independent tribunals system – with modernised procedures, stronger accountability, and a sharper focus on improving the experience of service users.
Review the Well‑being of Future Generations Act and collaborate with the Future Generations Commissioner to ensure it delivers measurable change.
Apply a whole‑system, catchment‑based approach to improve water quality and strengthen climate and nature resilience in Wales. Our ambition is for every water body in Wales to be on a clear trajectory towards good status. Working in partnership across sectors, we will accelerate delivery of nature‑based solutions that reduce pollution and build resilience to future environmental pressures.
Develop and implement a cross‑government Climate and Nature Action Plan for Wales, supported by a Climate and Nature Board. The plan will strengthen climate and nature resilience, enhance environmental sustainability, support a just transition and identify practical action towards a pathway to net zero by 2040. As part of the plan, we will set ambitious targets to achieve substantive nature recovery by 2050.
Latest figure: Greenhouse gas emissions, 30.1 million tonnes, 2024.
Establish a strong and independent Office for Environmental Governance Wales to hold public authorities to account for delivering environmental targets.
Publish and implement a new strategy for Cymraeg with a renewed focus on increasing the number of speakers to a million and more by 2050, doubling the daily use of the language, and ensuring that the language belongs to us all in Wales.
Latest figure: People who say they can speak Welsh, 27.4%, the year to 30 June 2026.
Work to strengthen the resilience of Cymraeg as a community language and in workplaces, implementing the recommendations of the commission for Welsh‑speaking communities, and work towards designating areas of higher linguistic sensitivity and protecting Welsh place names.
Work towards extending Welsh Language Standards to UK government bodies and to services operating in Wales, and ensure that Cymraeg is at the heart of all public policy, including health, housing, planning, transport, education, culture and the economy.
Improve public health and wellbeing at population level by developing a new, comprehensive Public Health Strategy and Framework for Wales, based on a root and branch review of current and future public health needs.
Embed health prevention in all policy development across government ensuring strategic alignment of government action on the social determinants of health and wellbeing.
Harness expertise and plans to minimise the impact of communicable diseases with a focus on elimination targets by 2030 for tuberculosis and blood-borne viruses including HIV.
Make the renewal of Welsh housing stock a national mission, along with reforms to ensure greater security for renters and increased availability of social housing. Safe and adequate housing is an essential bedrock of health.
Embed a Housing First, trauma‑informed and person‑centred approach to tackling homelessness, ensuring our new homelessness legislation is implemented effectively and kept under review. Our Housing and Regeneration Strategy will be rooted in the ambition that everyone should have a safe and secure home.
Latest figure: Homeless people in temporary accommodation, 10,535, 31 July 2026.
Invest in the preventative role of culture, heritage and sports to promote good health for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.
Deliver a national School Swimming and Water Safety programme, giving every pupil in Wales a foundation for an active, healthy life, building their confidence, and keeping children safe around water.
Work with our newly created Flood Forum for Wales to bring together local authorities, Natural Resources Wales, emergency services, and community organisations to coordinate national strategy on flooding.
Renew the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the Welsh Government and local authorities, ensuring they are involved in the design and delivery of public services and we will support effective regional collaboration.
Review the funding formula for local government to better reflect the real cost of delivering services in different parts of Wales and introduce a funding floor to ensure that no local authority is disproportionately impacted.
