Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 3 October 2017.
‘No’ is the answer to that. Poverty is something that’s being dealt with across Government; it just doesn’t come under the portfolio of one Minister, because we know how important it is. If you look at what we published last week then it’s obvious that we consider poverty as something that it’s vital we resolve in Wales, and the way of doing that is to ensure that people have the skills that they need, that they have the opportunities that they need, and that they can have free childcare—and that’s something that we put in our manifesto in the election and we’re moving forward to act on that—and that there are jobs available to them that are well paid. We don’t have every lever within our grasp, because we know that there is much around employability and payment that is in the hands of the United Kingdom Government, but we must ensure that we can do everything possible in Wales in order to address poverty.