Angela Burns: Leader of the house, may I ask for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for health and social services into how the Welsh Government can support Wales’s biggest medical school in light of its recent 20-place fall in ‘The Complete University Guide’, and the impact that this could have on Welsh Government’s manifesto commitment to deliver more doctors training in Wales? And I would...
Angela Burns: 1. Will the Minister make a statement on recent local authority capital expenditure? OAQ(5)0042(FLG)
Angela Burns: 7. What assessment has the Minister made of the impact of proposed local government reform on the delivery of public services? OAQ(5)0041(FLG)
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, statistics out last week show that capital expenditure on social services has fallen by 45 per cent in the last year from £22 million in 2014-15 to £12.6 million in the last financial year—the greatest fall of all local government capital expenditure. Revenue spend has also fallen by 0.4 per cent. In light of this reduction in funding, would you please provide clarity...
Angela Burns: Thank you for that. Because, of course, not taking forward the Williams commission recommendations has meant now that we need to seek to see that local authorities do collaborate more, I wonder whether you could just give us a little bit more information about the discussions you’ve had with local authorities or with the WLGA. Have you put a timescale on being able to see some tangible...
Angela Burns: 7. Will the First Minister make a statement on the Welsh Government's plans to support renewable energy production during the fifth Assembly? OAQ(5)0232(FM)
Angela Burns: Will the Minister explain why Main Port Engineering in Pembrokeshire went into administration despite having received a £650,000 grant from the Welsh Government?EAQ(5)0058(EI)
Angela Burns: First Minister, in the light of recent financial difficulties encountered by Tidal Energy Ltd in west Wales, a company seemingly leading the way in marine energy extraction, what reassurances can you provide that other marine energy projects backed by public money deliver on their objectives, and what plans have your Government got in place to ensure that the skills and knowledge so far...
Angela Burns: Thank you very much for that, Cabinet Secretary, because it is a sad day for a very well-established business with an excellent reputation. Twenty-six years and 165 employees, the loss of the company carries not just financial consequences, but the human cost is tangible. Now, I’ve spoken to the founder and managing director, I’ve spoken to operational staff and to workers in the field,...
Angela Burns: Minister, I’d like to welcome your statement today, and I do appreciate the consultation exercise that you have run with all the parties here. I do agree that it is time for a mature debate on the national health service and the social care model that we currently have in Wales. However, I think that, as a matter of record, I need to put on the record that I have expressed concerns about...
Angela Burns: Will the Minister outline the Welsh Government's plans to improve the education of those with special educational needs in Wales?
Angela Burns: Will the Minister outline the Welsh Government's plans to improve the education of those with special educational needs in Wales?
Angela Burns: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. It gives me great pleasure to take part in this debate tabled by UKIP today. I’d like to move amendment 1 and amendment 4 tabled in the name of Paul Davies. Amendment 2 regrets that the number of female lung cancer cases in Wales has increased by more than a third over the last decade. In fact, the rate for women in Wales is amongst the highest in Europe...
Angela Burns: Will you take an intervention?
Angela Burns: Just a point of clarity, Cabinet Secretary. I appreciate that the survival rates in women have gone up if they’ve been diagnosed early enough, but overall, would you not agree that there are more women now suffering from and getting lung cancer than there have been in the past?
Angela Burns: Of course, First Minister, leisure centres play an important role in rehabilitation. People who have had heart attacks or strokes, suffer from diabetes, or have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are people who, very often, will go to a leisure centre after they have done their six mandatory weeks of physiotherapy. How do you square that public health need with the fact that so many...
Angela Burns: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I’m pleased to see the Public Health (Wales) Bill resurface after the ridiculous farrago we saw earlier this year, and I would restate this party’s commitment to enabling e-cigarettes to be one of a number of tools in the smoking cessation toolbox. Minister, there is very little in this Bill that I would quarrel with. In fact, given the stated...
Angela Burns: I’m so sorry, I did take guidance earlier, Deputy Presiding Officer, and was told I had time.
Angela Burns: My apologies. Could the public health Bill not legislate to monitor air pollution outside of Welsh schools? My initial investigations indicate that the issue of monitoring pollution levels outside schools could be factored into the Bill and that they could be enacted, providing we’re mindful of EU law and will not cut across the Wales Bill. Finally, Minister, I would raise the subject of...
Angela Burns: 5. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government’s business grant application process? OAQ(5)0067(EI)
