Angela Burns: 6. How is the First Minister ensuring the transparency and accountability of information held by the Welsh Government? OAQ51975
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Earlier this month, your Cabinet Secretary for Education announced a £14 million injection of cash to help fund school repairs. This is a very welcome sum of money, and her statement very clearly said that every school will receive some funding. Now, throughout Wales, we have a number of new builds, either built this year or literally in the last sort of 18 months to two years. In my own...
Angela Burns: 9. Will the First Minister provide details of the allocation of funding for education in Wales? OAQ51959
Angela Burns: I'm delighted to hear that, because I do think there's still so much stigma attached to the whole area of mental health and how we recognise it, how we pick it up and how we help people who might be going into crisis to be able to access the support that they need. I spent a couple of hours this morning in Pontardawe looking at Hafal's new facility, and I know you've been there, because you...
Angela Burns: Thank you. I'm really grateful to you for that answer, and I'm quite sure that NHS staff across Wales will be as well. I'd like to address my second two questions to the issue of mental health. I was delighted the Welsh Government supported the Welsh Conservatives' debate on mental health of a few weeks ago. You did make a couple of comments during that debate that I would just like to...
Angela Burns: Thank you, Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary, storm Emma passed through our area nearly a couple of weeks ago now, and I'd like to use this opportunity to put on record my thanks, and I'm sure the thanks of every Assembly Member, to the NHS staff who were so brilliant at getting in, in very difficult conditions, who were prepared to stay and work a lot of extra hours to make up for...
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, you will know that, in my role as Chair of the cross-party group on sepsis, I wrote to every single GP practice in Wales, and had a very disappointing only 11 responses, asking them what they knew about sepsis prevention and what tools they had. I've subsequently followed that up with letters to every social care head in Wales. A great response—over 60 per cent of them...
Angela Burns: 2. What is the Welsh Government doing to promote sepsis awareness across the health and social care sector? OAQ51892
Angela Burns: Will you take an intervention?
Angela Burns: I'm very grateful, Rhun, for your taking my intervention, but I just wanted to reiterate again what you've just said. Modelling is not the same as evidence. Evidence is based on what has happened. Modelling always has assumptions in it, and assumptions can always be skewed one way or the other.
Angela Burns: I'd like to begin my contribution by indicating that the Welsh Conservatives will be supporting this Bill at Stage 1. However, we do so with a very long list of caveats and concerns that we would like to see addressed over the coming stages, and in the amendments that we will be intending to put forward. We believe that the Government should be wise in legislating. You don't just legislate...
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, thank you very much indeed for bringing forward this statement today. It's very welcome, and I would like to also pay tribute to the campaigners who've worked so hard to bring this inquiry about, and particularly Haemophilia Wales and the cross-party group led by Julie Morgan. I just have a couple of questions that I'd like to ask you on the back of this statement, because...
Angela Burns: First Minister, over the last decade, approximately 70 per cent of women who've been called forward to have breast test screenings have actually taken forward that invitation and have had the screenings that have sometimes saved their lives. However, there is a hardcore 30 per cent that we are unable to reach to persuade them of the benefit of taking up this kind of screening. Do you think it...
