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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Will the finance Secretary take an intervention?
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, as I said to you, it's another broken promise. The Chancellor, when she was the shadow Chancellor, said that raising national insurance was a tax on jobs. The business Secretary, when he was the shadow business Secretary, said exactly the same…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. The other broken promise we saw was around national insurance and the uplift in national insurance that will have such a devastating impact—an employment tax, a jobs tax that the Chancellor highlighted in opposition and so…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, no apologies, no sense of distress at what the farming community are going to face. [Interruption.] What I am going to say to you is this is a broken promises budget, that ultimately—[Interruption.]
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Questions to the First Minister
It's nice to see they've found their voice after many weeks of sitting in silence. It was a budget of broken promises and brutal betrayal. When you look at the agricultural community and the change in agricultural property relief, when the Department for…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. First Minister, last week's budget was a budget of broken promises. We saw first-hand—[Interruption.] I thought that would get a reaction. [Interruption.] I thought that would get a reaction—
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Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
Of course, the lengthy period of silence we've had from the former First Minister and finance Minister and all those Members is not one criticism of the failure of the Labour Government to deliver the winter fuel allowance for pensioners that will see 4,000…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
Do you recognise that the Crown Estate, managed by the Scottish Government, has been massively undersold, and Audit Scotland pointed to the billions of pounds that the Scottish Government is missing out on in revenue, because they just weren't capable of…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
Will you take an intervention?
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Topical Questions
A couple of points, if I may. I was of the understanding from the reports that I've read that the £19 million is the quantifiable amount of money that's owed to HMRC at the moment. It is not the totality of the liability and the discussions are ongoing, and…
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Topical Questions
Minister, thank you for your responses this afternoon. I've listened intently and I was grateful for the leader of the house's response yesterday, which I think was very insightful, especially as you agreed to keep the Chamber updated.
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25
I hope that the finance Minister will acknowledge that, from these benches, we have always said that the pay review body award should always be paid in full, at a time when the Government that you led was not implementing those pay review awards, like last…
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25
Will you take an intervention?
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Business Statement and Announcement
Leader of the house, is it possible to have an oral statement from the Deputy First Minister in relation to the Natural Resources Wales tax fine? I appreciate a written statement was issued yesterday, but £19 million was paid on account and there’s more to be…
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Questions to the First Minister
Can I suggest you know what your Ministers are saying when they're on the media round? The Minister herself, actually, said there is very little amount of time left to deliver this manifesto commitment—15 months, she said, in her words. So, it's not me saying…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm sorry, First Minister, but the words of the delivery Minister on Sunday were that a backbencher in the Labour Party was going to do a rapid deep-dive of each planning application that came in. You, in your response to me, clearly indicate that you haven't…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. As my colleague Mark Isherwood highlighted, we learned on the weekend that the Member for Llanelli is now, I presume, part of the Government, because he will be, in the Minister for Delivery's words, doing—well, these are your…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Council-owned farms
Sorry. My point is that you're losing the crown jewels of these local authorities, and the Government does have a role to play in safeguarding that, along with local authorities.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Council-owned farms
I'm grateful to the Minister for taking the intervention. The numbers you just gave—900-odd holdings, 21,000 hectares—is still a significant estate across the whole of Wales, in fairness. But as someone who comes from the Vale of Glamorgan, back in 1997 the…
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Topical Questions
Residents in my regional constituency of South Wales Central, if they live in the western Vale, basically look to the Princess of Wales Hospital for the bulk of their referrals. I would ask the Cabinet Secretary: when did the Government become aware of this?…
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Questions to the First Minister
I appreciate, by your own words, you have greater influence on Donald Trump than you do on Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, so maybe you don’t know what’s in the budget, but speaker after speaker, speaking on behalf of the Labour Government, from the…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, when the Conservatives left office in July, we had the fastest growing G7 economy, we had inflation back to 2 per cent and we had unemployment at record low levels. That is a fact. But the point I am making to you, First Minister, is quite…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, yesterday, you were at Keir Starmer's investment summit, and the good news coming out of that summit was that there's £60 billion-worth of investment coming into the UK, building on the previous two conferences…
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Questions to the First Minister
I very much hope that the inquiry will get to the bottom of this and, actually, give some form of closure and comfort, if that's the right word, to the victims, because they will always have the memories of the horrors that were inflicted on them, but by…
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Questions to the First Minister
One of the comments that has come forward is the quite clear remark at the start of the programme, which talks of how he was able to hide for so long. Now, that is a legitimate question that many of the victims and, indeed, anyone looking at it with an…
