Angela Burns: 5. Will the Minister outline his strategies for improving play facilities for children across Wales? OAQ(5)0066(CC)
Angela Burns: Minister, thank you very much for your statement today. The first point I would like to concur with you on is to show appreciation to the staff who help maintain our NHS services during the winter, when, I think we all recognise, there do seem to be extraordinary pressures, and I would like to pay my tribute to them as well. This is a pretty upbeat statement, and I’m quite sure it reflects...
Angela Burns: First Minister, I’m sure you are aware that there’s been no progress in survival rates for pancreatic cancer during the last 40 years, despite the extraordinary leaps and bounds we’ve made in many other medicines and with many other conditions. Now, there’s currently a research project collating samples from six hospitals across England and Wales, including Swansea’s Singleton, and...
Angela Burns: I’m very grateful to be able to take part in this individual Member debate today, and I would like to tender David Melding’s regrets at not being able to be here to speak in this debate. The state of nature report is a key piece of evidence in helping us to understand what action we can take to protect and preserve our precious nature and ecosystems, and it will be a key piece of evidence...
Angela Burns: I’m glad to recognise the improvement in outcomes. However, you will be aware that a recent report by Bliss highlighted that only two out of 10 neonatal units had enough nurses to staff their cots in line with national standards. If you fail to address this matter for next September’s trainee nurse intake, then will it not become impossible for your Government to fulfil the commitment...
Angela Burns: Thank you for that answer. Cabinet Secretary, we’ve had a number of high-profile collapses of businesses involving an awful lot of public money, and it’s not just here on your watch or indeed your predecessor’s—she was the one who made a lot of these decisions—but it goes right back to the days of Ieuan Wyn Jones and £2 million for ragworm farms, which we got not one penny back...
Angela Burns: Cabinet Secretary, you are absolutely right, united and connected is totally vital, and I’m very supportive of this. However, we also need to be fiscally responsible. You’ve already talked about the £750 million that it could cost to reopen this line. From a written question by my colleague Andrew Davies, we know that there’s been at least one scoping study of £30,000. There is a bus...
Angela Burns: 5. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government’s business grant application process? OAQ(5)0067(EI)
Angela Burns: 5. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government’s plans for neonatal services in Wales? OAQ(5)0067(HWS)
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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,...
