QNR – in the Senedd at on 24 October 2017.
Darren Millar
Conservative
Mark Drakeford
Labour
‘Prosperity for All’ frames our actions to grow our economy and spread opportunity. Later this autumn, we will publish the economic action plan that will support delivery of ‘Prosperity for All’.
Suzy Davies
Conservative
Mark Drakeford
Labour
I regularly meet leaders and senior representatives from European countries and regions. We are hosting a conference next month on European co-operation, which will enable discussions on Brexit with European regional leaders. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government also spoke at a regional conference in Helsinki last week.
David Melding
Conservative
Mark Drakeford
Labour
We are working with partners to reverse this trend, which concerns me deeply. In addition to the £2.6 million we recently announced to tackle rough sleeping and homelessness, we have protected the Supporting People budget and increased homelessness funding by £10 million for 2018-19.
Rhun ap Iorwerth
Plaid Cymru
Mark Drakeford
Labour
Communities across Wales are benefiting from renewable energy generation schemes, from owning and building them as well as from benefit funds, and from the reduction in emissions and pollutants they deliver. Our ambitious energy targets look to increase Welsh ownership of energy developments significantly in future.
David Rees
Labour
Mark Drakeford
Labour
Last week, the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport relaunched ‘Train. Work. Live.’ The renewed national and international campaign includes a further round of incentives to attract GP trainees to areas of Wales that have traditionally been hard to recruit to.
David Lloyd
Plaid Cymru
Mark Drakeford
Labour
The School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 requires that, before school organisation proposals are published, they must first be subject to consultation. Our school organisation code sets a high standard for consultation, ensuring those with an interest can express their views and those views are conscientiously taken into account.
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.
