Angela Burns: Diolch, Lywydd. Good afternoon, Cabinet Secretary. Thank you very much for bringing forward this statement today. I would also like to put on record my thanks to the review panel for conducting this and my thanks to you for involving all the opposition parties so comprehensively in this entire process. I’d also like to thank the great many members of the public. Particularly, I know that a...
Angela Burns: Thank you for that answer, Cabinet Secretary. My understanding is that the current White Paper, though, has dropped the obligation for councillors to publish an annual report to increase transparency and to allow voters to see what their representatives have been doing. I wondered if you could perhaps explain that a little bit further and explain why that requirement has been watered down...
Angela Burns: 5. Will the Cabinet Secretary outline what the Welsh Government has done to increase transparency within local government? OAQ(5)0112(FLG)
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, I just wonder, before you launched this Bill or indeed popped it into your manifesto before the Assembly elections, whether you considered reviewing the qualifying criteria. Did you look at all as to how many people who have bought their homes then stayed in them for successive years and, indeed, decades, or passed them down to their families? Because, of course, when...
Angela Burns: Minister—sorry, leader of the house—I understand that, obviously, the strategic action plan’s only been in place for some five or six months now, but what we really need to see is how the gaps in the provision of services, particularly for adults, are going to be filled. Within Pembrokeshire, there’s a massive gap in the provision of services for adults with autism and neither...
Angela Burns: Will the First Minister outline which industry sectors he visited on his recent trip to the United States?
Angela Burns: I’m not sure trampolining would sustain me, actually, David Melding. [Laughter.] I don’t want to break any other bones. But it’s about catching the young and changing their lifestyles and changing their expectations. The other thing we haven’t touched upon is this: a healthy, emotionally resilient individual who at 18, 19 or 20 goes into a job or goes into higher education will...
Angela Burns: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary, the Welsh Conservatives are delighted to hear about the children’s health plan that you are proposing, because this is at the heart of this debate. The reason we brought this is because, whilst you highlighted a great number of initiatives within health, within education—all of which are welcome—it’s about driving a theme, it’s...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer. I am pleased to bring this debate to the Assembly today on behalf of the Welsh Conservative group. I have given much thought to the discussion I am hoping we can develop today. As a mother of two young children, the issue of child health and well-being is obviously extremely close to my heart and something I feel passionately about. I am so very aware that...
Angela Burns: Back to the Mothers Affection Matters event earlier on today, Cabinet Secretary, listening to some of the people who gave their stories, they talked about harassment turning into abuse from a very, very early age. I’d like to just reinforce the calls made by Sian Gwenllian, and I think others yesterday, for healthy relationships training and counselling and development in schools. If we can...
Angela Burns: Thank you for that response and thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for attending the Mothers Affection Matters event earlier today. Because here we are, celebrating International Women’s Day 2017, and yet, today, we heard some harrowing stories and learnt of the deep fear of abused people who are reluctant to seek help because they feel their children will be removed. I’ll be absolutely...
Angela Burns: 1. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on how he intends to support victims of domestic violence? OAQ(5)0117(CC)
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, thank you for your statement today. I welcome hugely the great strides made forward in the delivery of stroke services. There was much in this report that I found to be of really good news. I do have a couple of questions, though, that spin from it. The first is that NICE guidelines suggest that patients suffering from stroke should, as you know, start thrombolysis within...
Angela Burns: Thank you for that. I’ve met with a great many of the organisations that represent all facets of the GP work sphere and, of course, the issue of professional indemnity is one of the major points that comes across as a barrier for getting more GPs who currently are either thinking of retiring and work part-time to release more of their GP hours and go into GP practices, which would indeed...
Angela Burns: 5. What plans does the First Minister have to address the barriers that are facing GP recruitment in Wales? OAQ(5)0484(FM)
Angela Burns: Will you take an intervention? Thank you very much, Minister. Whilst I accept the veracity of the evidence that you’ve heard from public bodies, there was also talk in the committee evidence that we took that there’s a large underground movement that involves things like body modifications. So, they’re not necessarily going to be picked up by public authorities.
Angela Burns: I’m delighted to be able to stand here and speak on the Public Health (Wales) Bill. Minister, I’d like to say that the Welsh Conservatives will be supporting the general principles of the Bill. As we go forward over the next few stages, we will be seeking to bring further amendments to the Bill and we will be seeking to ensure that the financial assessment of the cost of this Bill keeps...
Angela Burns: Thank you very much for your statement this afternoon, Cabinet Secretary, and there’s much to commend, or to be commended in the report from the Welsh Ambulance Services Trust. And, like you, I would like to particularly commend the paramedics who have made enormous strides forward in delivering and being able to deliver timely care, and I think that they are making a real different to...
Angela Burns: Will the First Minister outline the Welsh Government's plans to reduce drink related deaths in Wales?
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, will you take an intervention?
