QNR – in the Senedd at on 30 April 2024.
Mark Isherwood
Conservative
Vaughan Gething
Labour
The Welsh Government is supporting general practice in Wales through investment and contract reform. We invested £20 million in 2023-24. The new unified contract streamlines services so that general practitioner time can be focused on delivering care to patients.
Peredur Owen Griffiths
Plaid Cymru
Vaughan Gething
Labour
We will continue to press the UK Government for a principles-based approach to the fiscal framework that includes replacing the Barnett formula.
Sarah Murphy
Labour
Vaughan Gething
Labour
The NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee is establishing additional capacity for renal dialysis in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area by opening a new facility in Bridgend. Additional funding has been provided to increase rates of home dialysis and kidney transplantation.
Llyr Gruffydd
Plaid Cymru
Vaughan Gething
Labour
The Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport’s responsibilities for north Wales are to represent north Wales in the Cabinet and to represent the Welsh Government in north Wales. He chairs the north Wales Cabinet sub-committee.
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.
An economic mechanism used by the Treasury to adjust automatically the amounts of public expenditure allocated to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to reflect changes in spending levels allocated to public services in England, England and Wales or Great Britain as a whole.
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.
