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1. Questions to the First Minister: Mesh in Operations (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: I thank Jack Sargeant for his continuing interest in this topic. I know that he has previously referred to the work of his constituent and the campaigning work that she has undertaken, and that he received assurances from the then health Minister that we expect, and indeed have seen, a significant reduction in the number of vaginal mesh procedures being carried out in Wales. While there is...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Mesh in Operations (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Health boards must use National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance on the use of mesh to provide suitable treatment options for patients. Care plans should reflect informed choices, co-produced between clinicians and patients.

1. Questions to the First Minister: Unpaid Carers Charter (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: I agree with Peter Fox that the right established in the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 that unpaid carers are entitled to an assessment—it's a legal right that they have and it's not something that is a grace and favour of anybody else—is a really important right that was established in this Senedd. The strategy and the funding that lies behind it is there to make sure...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Unpaid Carers Charter (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: The first annual report on implementation of the unpaid carers strategy, including the charter, is published today. It covers a range of practical actions—the short breaks scheme and the carers support grant, for example—to support unpaid carers.

1. Questions to the First Minister: Ambulances Waiting Times (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: My starting point, Llywydd, is always that where there are lessons to be learnt, inside or outside Wales, then of course we would want to learn them. From my long experience of these sorts of discussions—and I don't have this in front of me—what I would suspect would be that there will be different definitions of what is captured by a category 2 response, so we're counting different...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Ambulances Waiting Times (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Well, Llywydd, the fundamental answer is not to have ambulances waiting in that way, and while the position in the health service continues to be very challenging, there is some good news in this area. By taking the whole-system approach to which I referred in my original answer, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, working with the ambulance service, achieved a 50 per cent reduction in...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Ambulances Waiting Times (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Llywydd, we've provided additional funding, established a national improvement programme and increased staffing in the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust. Where health boards take concerted, whole-system action, clear results are already being seen in reducing ambulance waiting times outside hospitals.

1. Questions to the First Minister: Renewable Energy Industry (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Well, Llywydd, I certainly agree with the general point that Jenny Rathbone is making. She will know that it is a confusing picture that faces the individual householder in this area, because there is an ongoing and sometimes a rather polarised debate on what the future of domestic heating should be. On the one hand, there are experiments going on and we’re working with the UK Government on...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Renewable Energy Industry (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Well, I haven’t had an opportunity to grasp that specific point that Llyr Gruffydd has made, Llywydd, so I’d better look at what is in the Record this afternoon. We do want to—. I’ve had a meeting with Jack Sargeant just a few weeks ago to look at how we can enable local authorities with their pension funds to invest in those things that are going to be part of the long-term response...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Renewable Energy Industry (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Well, Llywydd, I thank Sam Kurtz for those further questions. I thank him for drawing attention to the fact that the Erebus windfarm application has been approved now through all the processes here in Wales. It's a very important development and one that demonstrates that we have been able to use the streamlined and effective application process we now have in Wales to reach that outcome,...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Renewable Energy Industry (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: I thank Sam Kurtz for that. Supporting the supply chain, co-ordinating investment in grids and ports infrastructure and setting up a publicly owned renewable developer are some of the actions we are taking to support the renewable energy industry in Wales. 

1. Questions to the First Minister: Modern Sporting Facilities (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: I thank Jane Dodds for that. I know that the leisure sector, not just in Wales, but across the border as well, is disappointed that swimming pools have been excluded for help under the UK Government's new energy bill discount scheme. If you're running a museum, you will get help from that scheme, but if you're running an energy-intensive place like a leisure centre, and particularly a...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Modern Sporting Facilities (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Well, the very best way, Llywydd, would be if the UK Government had not used the internal market Act powers directly to fund the FAW. That is money that should be here in Wales, being decided here in Wales. Then, I would be able to help the Member a lot more directly. You will remember the debates in the House of Commons—and particularly in the House of Lords—when UK Government Ministers...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Modern Sporting Facilities (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Llywydd, using funding provided by the Welsh Government, Sport Wales will support 20 projects across Powys in the current financial year through the Be Active Wales fund. This is in addition to capital projects such as the new pump track near Talybont-on-Usk and resurfacing the athletics track at Brecon Leisure Centre.

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Llywydd, I was able to discuss with Keir Starmer the work of the McAllister-Williams review. He referred to it specifically in the speech that he made to the Labour Party conference, and I was very heartened by the fact that he is determined to show proper respect to the work of that Welsh commission, and to await its recommendations before taking decisions on policies that will enter the...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Llywydd, it was a very welcome announcement indeed that Sir Keir Starmer made at the weekend, that, should there be a Labour Government after the next general election, the powers and the funding that have been taken away from Wales will be restored to Wales, so that the decisions on those really important regional economic development decisions will be taken here in this Senedd. I look...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Llywydd, I believe it's common ground across all parties on the floor of the Senedd that HS2 has been wrongly classified by the UK Government, that it should be classified on the basis, as in Scotland, that there are Barnett consequentials. That is the policy of this Government. I've articulated it many times here.

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Well, Llywydd, I imagine that any party who puts a motion down in front of the Senedd does so in the hope that they will persuade other people to support it. I'm puzzled that the leader of the opposition wants to take issue with the fact that we supported the motion that he put down. Now, I know that the—[Interruption.] He can't take 'yes' for an answer, indeed. So, the person who led the...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: I've never known any public sector workers who want to be on strike. Llywydd, the truth of the matter is is that members of the RCN have been to driven to express their reaction to a decade of austerity, followed by galloping inflation on the money that they have to manage with every week. And you will never find a Welsh Government Minister who would say that public sector workers driven to...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (14 Mar 2023)

Mark Drakeford: Well, Llywydd, can I begin by agreeing with what the leader of the opposition said about events in Swansea yesterday? It must have been a hugely frightening experience for others who live in that locality. And the leader of the opposition is right, isn't he—we expect our emergency services to run towards sources of danger that other people will be running away from, and they are immensely...


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