3. 2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:26 pm on 11 October 2016.

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Photo of Jane Hutt Jane Hutt Labour 2:26, 11 October 2016

I thank the Member for those questions, and I also thank Mark Isherwood for drawing attention to the national awareness day yesterday for a condition that I’m sure many of us in this Chamber were not aware of—and to see that this is a condition, in terms of fragility, that affects a person’s life chances, and it affects many more people than we perhaps would have been aware of. So, I thank the Member for drawing it to our attention today in the business statement.

On your second point, of course you are quite right that, in terms of tackling poverty, this is a responsibility across the Welsh Government in terms of ministerial responsibility, but the Table Office was quite right, and you will see this from portfolio responsibilities, that the lead Minister is the Minister for economy and infrastructure. But clearly, if you are gearing your question to issues that affect children or child poverty, it would go to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children. It is absolutely clear that this is something where there is shared responsibility, but the lead for that in terms of the Cabinet as a whole is Ken Skates.