Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 13 June 2023.
Mark Drakeford
Labour
1:55,
13 June 2023
We will do that, Llywydd, by the investment that we are making in the cancer workforce of the future. Since August 2021, we have had a five-year programme of expansion in the training of medical oncologists and clinical oncologists. Every year, more people will enter training in Wales, and more people will therefore emerge in order to provide the treatments that will be needed in the future. We will have seen a 34 per cent increase in diagnostic radiography between 2017 and 2023, and we will go on expanding the workforce to make sure that we will be as well prepared for the additional demand for cancer services in Wales, which we know will be there in the future because of demography and other factors, as we are able to be.
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.
