Angela Burns: 2. In light of today's announcement by the UK Government to increase pay for over a million NHS staff in England, will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the Welsh Government's plans for NHS pay in Wales? 158
Angela Burns: Lifting this pay cap has been long awaited by all political parties, and we wholeheartedly welcome this announcement, which gives recognition to the front-line staff who work tirelessly to deliver world-class services. From today, staff such as nurses, porters and paramedics will receive an average 6.5 per cent increase in their pay packets over the next few years, with many of the lowest...
Angela Burns: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. In today's consumer-driven society, we can all be guilty of taking for granted that which others across the world do not have. For example, we are able to source an array of exotic fruit and vegetables from around the world in our local shops. However, many in developing countries are not so lucky. They would love to have a banana with their breakfast,...
Angela Burns: I will be supporting the motion before us today on community transport, which has been tabled by individual Members, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to speak to it. I don't intend to rehearse the entire motion, but I do want to emphasise the opening point: 'that the National Assembly for Wales '1. Notes that community transport services play a vital role in our communities,...
Angela Burns: What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the support that the Welsh Government is providing to Welsh veterans?
Angela Burns: What guidance has the Cabinet Secretary issued to local authorities on collaborating with other public sector bodies?
Angela Burns: Will the Cabinet Secretary outline the Welsh Government's priorities for animal welfare over the next 12 months?
Angela Burns: 6. How is the First Minister ensuring the transparency and accountability of information held by the Welsh Government? OAQ51975
Angela Burns: As a result of your altercation with Adam Price during FMQs on 30 January, I realised that if your Government was seeking correspondence details between Adam Price and Hywel Dda university health board, then you may have asked the same questions about me. Indeed, for all I know, you may be collating information about all opposition Members' correspondence with public sector bodies. And so, I...
Angela Burns: Thank you. My point, Presiding Officer, is a local journalist can do an FOI on the health board and get the exact same information that I put a subject access request into your Government for at the end of January, and I still have absolutely nothing. So, an Assembly Member can't get their information from you, a journo can from the health board. Your Government is not transparent, is not...
Angela Burns: I'd like to thank the Cabinet Secretary for his statement today. There is much to be welcomed in this statement. I was particularly pleased to see the reduction in teenage pregnancies because, of course, as we know, that can have significant long-term life barriers sometimes for young women who get pregnant at too early an age. So, that's really, really welcome. I was also very pleased to...
Angela Burns: Leader of the house, I do appreciate the answer that you've just given to Simon Thomas, but, of course, the reality is that in great chunks of mid and west Wales, there are areas where people do not have access to either broadband or mobile. To be fair, I absolutely recognise your commitment to sorting this out, and I know that you've taken on literally probably almost 100 of my...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Presiding Officer. I'm going to talk at great speed because I have also promised to give a minute to Julie Morgan, to Janet Finch-Saunders and to Suzy Davies, and I have a lot to say on this subject. It was a bank holiday weekend less than a year ago when Rachel knocked on her flatmate's bedroom door in the early hours of the morning and asked her to take her to hospital because she...
Angela Burns: Rachel was taken down for surgery, but, after just a few hours, doctors told them that she would also have to lose her left arm. The family struggled to process all this awful information; they were told to think on it overnight. However, the next morning, the doctors told them that the decision was no longer theirs to make. They said that Rachel would also lose part of her face, that her...
Angela Burns: Gemma Ellis, who is the lead sepsis nurse for the University Hospital of Wales and manages their outreach team would tell you that there are two issues here: post-sepsis syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder. We probably all have an understanding of PTSD, but post-sepsis syndrome is a condition that affects up to 50 per cent of sepsis survivors. They are left with physical and/or...
Angela Burns: Would you take an intervention, Minister?
Angela Burns: You talk about saving lives, and you're absolutely right, that's very important, but, actually, the thing about sepsis is the destruction it causes to the people who do survive it. So, if you can get into a hospital quicker, then you are less likely to lose your limbs, you're less likely to have your brain basically scrambled by the sepsis, you're less likely to be left with debilitating...
Angela Burns: Will the Cabinet Secretary outline the Welsh Government's proposals to alter tax rates in Wales?
Angela Burns: Ffrind i Mi is, indeed, an excellent innovation, First Minister. In fact, next month, you will be paying tribute to, and recognising the work of, Mary Adams, who's a constituent of mine in west Wales, for the work that she undertakes through the Rotary-backed RotaKids project. RotaKids spends time with people with dementia, with people suffering from loneliness and who feel very, very...
Angela Burns: Leader of the house, I have raised my concerns over the future of west Wales health services on numerous occasions in this Chamber. For my pains, I've been accused by members of the Government and backbenchers of scaremongering, talking down the health services and harming staff recruitment—all by myself, I've harmed staff recruitment. The current Cabinet Secretary approached the Welsh...
