Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 3:01 pm on 25 April 2018.
I'm grateful to my colleague Dai Rees who's going to be bringing forward a short debate later on today about the impact of austerity, which is clearly at the heart of so much that we can and can't do. So, continuing that theme, Cabinet Secretary, even though you've been able to protect nursing bursaries in Wales, which the UK Government in England has cut—and the Royal College of Nursing have made significant comments about that today during a debate—would you agree that the Welsh Government could have done even more for nursing and front-line NHS staff, whether that's in training or recruitment, if we'd not faced over £1 billion of cuts since 2010? And would you further agree that many of us in this Chamber are just getting a little bit tired of hearing Tory benches constantly calling for more investment in health when it's their UK Government in Westminster that have chosen to make such deep cuts in our budgets? [Interruption.]