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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, I'm sure you were alarmed and disturbed by the BBC programme that's going to be broadcast tomorrow night, that is on the iPlayer for people to view today, about Neil Foden, the disgraced headteacher from north…
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Questions to the First Minister
It can't come quick enough, First Minister. The other point that is a discrepancy within Welsh schools is the inability to test performance. Now, the Welsh Government has not instigated the international testing regime so that we can understand exactly what…
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Questions to the First Minister
The real worry here, First Minister, is that, for many years, the evidence has pointed to moving away from the cue system of teaching reading to phonics. The evidence is there, and it has been adopted in other parts of the United Kingdom and has seen…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, last week, there was a report by ITN news that highlighted the appalling state of reading skills within our schools. You have to go back to 2012, because that's the most recent data, and, at that time, it showed…
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Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
The First Minister, in her opening remarks, tried to paint a picture of non-co-operation in the 14 years of the Conservative Government in Westminster. I find that bizarre, when you think there was a referendum for further law-making powers for this place in…
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Questions to the First Minister
I think we've seen that two-way working by the withdrawal of the winter fuel payment, where Labour Members have been deathly silent and yet 400,000 homes will lose that payment this year, costing Welsh pensioners £110 million. But I asked you a simple…
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Questions to the First Minister
It was a serious offer, First Minister, but regrettably, 50,000 people have joined those waiting lists here in Wales. I can remember raising with the First Minister in previous sessions whether the Welsh Government was going to take up the second offer scheme…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Last week, we had the waiting time figures here in Wales, which regrettably showed another increase in terms of people waiting on NHS waiting lists. Just shy of 800,000 procedures are now on those waiting lists and in excess of…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
There would be more credibility in this black-hole argument if, actually, the Labour Party had the power of their conviction and put this commitment to maintain the winter fuel allowance in their manifesto. They did it in 2010, they did it in 2015, they did…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
What about the guy who works in our local ironmonger who's going to find himself £13 over the threshold? He's going to lose that £300. I agree that there's a debating point about people who pay 40 per cent and 45 per cent tax, but with what your Government is…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
—it's the lightest First Minister's statement I've seen at an opening of a Senedd term. You do need to step up to the plate, your Ministers need to step up to the plate, and this statement won't change the direction, won't move the needle. And the sooner we…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
First Minister, thank you for your statement this afternoon. I think this is the seventh legislative statement/First Minister priority statement/programme for government statement that we've had in the last 12 months from the Labour Party here in the Senedd…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, you made much play in your interview on Sunday of saying you were going to stand up for Wales when that needed to happen and speak up for people here in Wales. I have said to you that, on your own party’s figures, 4,000 people—. I hear the…
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Questions to the First Minister
No apology. No contrition. And the figure I said to you was 400,000 Welsh pensioners will lose this assistance, this vital assistance that they require to keep themselves warm this winter. It is the wrong policy and the wrong choice, and your colleagues in…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, you highlighted how you'd met with the Chancellor back in August, and I hope, in those conversations, you directed the Chancellor to the genuine anger that is around this withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Can I congratulate the First Minister designate on her appointment at the vote of the Senedd today? I congratulate her on that very carefully crafted speech as well, which encapsulated a lot of the thoughts and sentiments that…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Andrew R.T. Davies.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Presiding Officer, I don't mean to sum up at any great length, because I think the spokespeople from the various parties and the First Minister spoke and put their positions. I genuinely don't believe that anyone set out with the intention to cause harm…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Thank you, Presiding Officer. I move the motion in the name of Darren Millar on the order paper this afternoon. Obviously, events have overtaken the motion that was laid last Wednesday, but it follows on from the personal statement that the Member presented…
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Questions to the First Minister
The key thing for people from the outside, the voters, is that they can have confidence that Wales can be governed going forward and that we are delivering on the priorities that people have sent us here to deliver on: waiting times, education, the economy…
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Questions to the First Minister
The important thing here, First Minister, is to understand whether the Labour group in this Senedd are so riven that you are unable to complete that mandate. In your assessment you have indicated that you believe that the Labour group can gather around a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, in the 17 years that I've been in this institution, I don't think you and I have ever shared a lift. This morning, the doors opened and you were standing there. I stretched out my hand to shake your hand and wish…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, First Minister, for that detailed response to my initial question and I agree entirely with the fact that, obviously, any Cabinet is formed at the request of the First Minister, and those who serve in that Cabinet are entirely at the discretion of…
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Topical Questions
1. Will the First Minister make a statement on Hannah Blythyn MS’s statement in the Senedd Chamber on 9 July 2024 that she was sacked as a Welsh Government Minister without sufficient evidence that she was guilty of leaking messages? TQ1146
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
I'll just touch on this final point, if I may, then. On the environmental principles and biodiversity Bill, this obviously will be a key piece of legislation. We will be the last Parliament to enact such a piece of legislation—I think I'm correct in saying…
