<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:48 pm on 3 October 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:48, 3 October 2017

Science entries are up. We changed the system partially to encourage schools to enter more students, and enter them at the time that is appropriate for them. That has been done. He talks about the worst GCSE results for 10 years—I do not recognise that, if you compare like with like. If he thinks that things are rosy in England, I suggest he needs to look at what happened in England with the system there. And he makes that comparison from time to time. Look, we will make sure that the education system is properly financed according to the settlement we get from him and his Government. If he wants to see—[Interruption.] If he wants to see more money into education, can I suggest he actually lobbies—because he’s more effective than his parliamentary colleague—his colleagues in London to get more money into education across the UK and particularly to Wales? We could do a lot more with a fairer settlement. A £1 billion bung for Northern Ireland—not a word, not a word, from the party opposite; not a word. Let’s see Wales get the same fair play and let’s see whether the Welsh Conservatives can stand up against their colleagues in Westminster.