QNR – in the Senedd at on 7 March 2017.
Dawn Bowden
Labour
Mark Drakeford
Labour
We have had inter-ministerial discussions, written communications with HM Treasury as well as external meetings with stakeholders with regard to the UK Government’s welfare benefit changes affecting supported accommodation.
Hefin David
Labour
Mark Drakeford
Labour
Raising awareness of endometriosis is important for women in Wales. We will be lighting the Senedd yellow to support World Endometriosis Day on 25 March. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board provides tertiary referral pelvic pain and endometriosis surgery and is one of five units in the UK that provide advance minimal access surgery training.
Bethan Sayed
Plaid Cymru
Mark Drakeford
Labour
We recognise the importance of inward investment to the Welsh economy and are committed to attracting global businesses to Wales. For example, we recently welcomed the news that Chinese-owned Acerchem International has chosen to set up its European Headquarters in Swansea.
Gareth Bennett
UKIP
Mark Drakeford
Labour
The Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children and officials are engaging with housing associations about our 20,000 affordable homes target. Recognising the scale of this challenge, a housing pact has been signed with the WLGA and Community Housing Cymru. Housing associations and local authorities have committed to delivering 13,500 homes.
Caroline Jones
UKIP
Mark Drakeford
Labour
I welcome Swansea’s ambition to become the 2021 UK City of Culture. Ministers will meet with the authority once it has developed its proposals more fully, before the deadline for initial bids. In the meantime, officials are assisting Swansea to identify all potential options for funding and supporting its bid.
Mr Neil Hamilton
UKIP
Mark Drakeford
Labour
Sensory impairment is a core theme in assessing care and support needs. A new health and social services integrated framework for action for people who are deaf or are living with hearing loss is to be published shortly, building on our continued investment in assistive equipment and technology.
Rhun ap Iorwerth
Plaid Cymru
Mark Drakeford
Labour
Mobile operators are committed to each providing 90 per cent geographical coverage across Wales, including Anglesey, providing reliable signal for voice communications by the end of 2017. We intend to publish a mobile action plan for improving mobile connectivity in Wales and to provide a road map to achieving it.
Ministers make up the Government and almost all are members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. There are three main types of Minister. Departmental Ministers are in charge of Government Departments. The Government is divided into different Departments which have responsibilities for different areas. For example the Treasury is in charge of Government spending. Departmental Ministers in the Cabinet are generally called 'Secretary of State' but some have special titles such as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ministers of State and Junior Ministers assist the ministers in charge of the department. They normally have responsibility for a particular area within the department and are sometimes given a title that reflects this - for example Minister of Transport.
The cabinet is the group of twenty or so (and no more than 22) senior government ministers who are responsible for running the departments of state and deciding government policy.
It is chaired by the prime minister.
The cabinet is bound by collective responsibility, which means that all its members must abide by and defend the decisions it takes, despite any private doubts that they might have.
Cabinet ministers are appointed by the prime minister and chosen from MPs or peers of the governing party.
However, during periods of national emergency, or when no single party gains a large enough majority to govern alone, coalition governments have been formed with cabinets containing members from more than one political party.
War cabinets have sometimes been formed with a much smaller membership than the full cabinet.
From time to time the prime minister will reorganise the cabinet in order to bring in new members, or to move existing members around. This reorganisation is known as a cabinet re-shuffle.
The cabinet normally meets once a week in the cabinet room at Downing Street.