Buffy Williams: What work has the Minister undertaken to ensure that communities in Rhondda are safe?
Buffy Williams: Thank you, Minister, for today's statement. As you know, perinatal mental health support and the heart attack gender gap are extremely important to me, but we need to talk about the menopause too. The menopause is a natural process that all women go through. However, many women find it a very stressful time, like any time of change. I'm really happy to see fewer and fewer women afraid or...
Buffy Williams: Diolch to the Minister for today's statement. It's great to hear that 95 per cent of schools in Wales will be taking the next step on their curriculum journey. The world has changed considerably over a very short period of time, and will continue to change. It's only right that we continue to transform education to keep up with this change, moving away from the narrow subjects and granting...
Buffy Williams: Minister, I'm contacted almost weekly by residents in Rhondda who've had their application for a disabled parking bay turned down, not because they're not eligible, but because, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, there is only funding available for 12 new bays a year. Since 2011, car ownership per household in RCT has increased by almost 14 per cent, according to the RAC Foundation. The number of disabled...
Buffy Williams: Thank you to members of the Health and Social Care Committee for your report and for the opportunity to discuss waiting times on the Senedd floor today. We know that the pandemic has had a profound effect on our health service, with waiting times proving a real problem. I welcome the announcement made by the health Minister earlier this year, ensuring that by 2025 no-one will be waiting more...
Buffy Williams: Minister, improving the health and well-being and the education of our children and young people in Wales is so important—even more so now, following the pandemic. Free school meals will play a vital role in this, and I want to thank the Minister and the education Minister for all their hard work since the review, ensuring that this will become the new normal across schools in Wales. We...
Buffy Williams: Diolch, Llywydd, and thank you, Minister, for today's statement. All forms of violence against women are unacceptable, and it's absolutely vital that we have our six key aims to tackle violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in Wales. I was horrified to see the number of domestic abuse and sexual violence instances in Rhondda compared to the rest of the country. This is a...
Buffy Williams: Diolch, Llywydd, and thank you, Deputy Minister, for today's statement. Spaces for our children and young people to play and meet with their friends are so important. There are clubs and groups the length and breadth of Wales providing these spaces, some like YEPS, run by the local authority, and others in the third and voluntary sector, like Tylorstown Minis and Juniors, Rhondda Netball,...
Buffy Williams: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to the Minister for today's statement. As you know, before I was elected to the Senedd, I worked in education for a number of years. It's one of the most challenging jobs I've had, and I take my hat off to all my friends and their colleagues in education working to support our children and young people, day in, day out. Visiting schools in Rhondda, I've...
Buffy Williams: Diolch, Llywydd. The birth of a child is one of the most intense and emotional experiences in a woman's life, but sometimes the best-planned births can quickly become an event where, sadly, anything but joy and happiness is felt. Support for mothers, their birth partners and their families throughout the perinatal period is absolutely crucial for this reason. On top of the dedicated uned...
Buffy Williams: Diolch to the Minister for today's statement. Having worked closely with the Terrence Higgins Trust and Fast Track Cardiff & Vale, I know that today's statement is welcome news to all the charities and organisations who have pulled together to help create the HIV action plan. Access to data when it comes to HIV and STIs in Wales is really very difficult and needs improving. A new data...
Buffy Williams: We know that the pandemic has had a profound effect on our health service, with waiting times proving a real problem. I welcome the announcement made by the health Minister earlier this year ensuring that, by 2025, no-one will be waiting more than a year for treatment in more specialities, but we need to see more urgent action on cancer waiting times. A constituent contacted my office this...
Buffy Williams: Thank you, Minister. Taking the 2021 modelled estimated fuel poverty and revising them using fuel prices from 1 April 2022, up to 45 per cent or 640,000 households could be in fuel poverty following the price cap increase, and energy price rises are likely to hit lower income households disproportionately. Having worked in the third sector before being elected to this place, I've seen first...
Buffy Williams: 1. Will the Minister provide an update on the level of fuel poverty in the Rhondda constituency? OQ58137
Buffy Williams: Diolch to Helen Reeves-Graham for starting this extremely important petition. As Jack has stated, we know that Tourette's affects one in 100 children, so to see over 10,000 signatures in support of providing a clinical pathway, medical care and specialists for people with Tourette's syndrome in Wales comes as no surprise. The Royal College of Psychiatrists say that up to 85 per cent of people...
Buffy Williams: What discussions has the Minister had with schools in Rhondda regarding the health and wellbeing of young learners?
Buffy Williams: Households in Wales are facing the biggest fall in disposable income in close to 50 years, with the poorest households hit the hardest, spending over a quarter of their income on energy and food. Considering this is a Tory cost-of-living crisis, the solutions and comments we've heard from the Tory Westminster Government are a joke. We've been told to get better jobs, we've been told that we...
Buffy Williams: Will the First Minister make a statement on the impact the cost-of-living crisis is having on residents in Rhondda?
Buffy Williams: Last week was Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Week. Untreated perinatal mental health problems can have a devastating impact on women, their families and children, and remains the leading cause of maternal death in the first postnatal year. One in five mums and one in 10 dads are affected by perinatal mental health problems, and this has unfortunately increased as a result of COVID. During...
Buffy Williams: 5. What percentage of mandated health visiting contacts through the Healthy Child Wales programme were conducted in person in the last year? OQ58025
