Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:46 pm on 20 June 2017.
That is a slap down, in fairness, First Minister, to your Cabinet Secretary. You either have a target that the department and the Cabinet Secretary work to, and the education system here in Wales works to—and we welcome the target, because it gives a direction of travel—but it is a fact that twice, now, a target has been disowned by successive Cabinet Secretaries on education here in your Government: obviously, Leighton Andrews’s target of being in the top 20 by 2015, and then on Thursday, the target of having 500 in the three categories by 2021 was disowned by the Cabinet Secretary. So, can you tell me how, in this disjointed Government, can educationalists, parents and pupils have any confidence that by 2021 we will see this Government hitting that target and delivering the improvements we want to see in education?