QNR – in the Senedd at on 16 January 2024.
Sam Rowlands
Conservative
Mark Drakeford
Labour
From the onset, the Welsh Government made a commitment to review the implementation of the new default speed limit, learning from the experience of early months. That commitment remains and is being discharged.
Mike Hedges
Labour
Mark Drakeford
Labour
We condemn fire and rehire as an employment practice. Such practices do not align with our values of fair work, social partnership and well-being. Our social partnership and public procurement Act will seek to ensure public procurement is undertaken in a way that supports economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being.
Jane Dodds
Liberal Democrat
Mark Drakeford
Labour
As a result of contract reform in Wales, capacity has been released to enable access over 289,000 new patients to NHS dental care since April 2022. Over 36,000 of these are in the Mid and West Wales region.
Huw Irranca-Davies
Labour
Mark Drakeford
Labour
By the end of this financial year, over £200 million of Government funding will have been provided to protect our bus network since the onset of the COVID pandemic. Regional network planning teams continue to meet and plan a network of bus services that will be delivered when emergency and transitional funding ends.
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