3. 2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:32 pm on 27 June 2017.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 2:32, 27 June 2017

Leader of the house, three years ago this month I brought forward a short debate to this Chamber calling on the Welsh Government to look at better ways of supporting people suffering from motor neurone disease, an extremely cruel condition that afflicts its sufferers massively. This month is MND awareness month, and the Motor Neurone Association are promoting the My Eyes Say campaign. Three years on from that short debate, I wonder if you could tell us how the Welsh Government has brought forward policies to improve the lives of people suffering from motor neurone disease. It’s one of those rare disease conditions that has often, in the past, perhaps sometimes understandably, fallen off the agenda when considered alongside other conditions, such as heart disease and cancer. But for those people suffering from it, it is life-changing, and I would look to see how the Welsh Government are improving conditions for people suffering from that.

Can I secondly ask: some years back, I asked the previous economy Minister—well BETS, as it was then: business, enterprise and technology—for a review into the trunk road programme in Wales. She did, at that point, undertake to have a review of the trunk road system. I wonder if we could get an update on where we are with that, and what the findings of that review were. There are certain accident hotspots across Wales, relating to our trunk road network, which still need addressing. The junction of the A40 and the A449 in my constituency is one such spot where there has been another recent accident—a junction there causing immense concern. There was an undertaking of the previous Minister, as they were called then, that hotspots like this would be looked at as part of that trunk road strategy review, and I wonder if you could update us on that.