NDM6892 Welsh Conservatives debate - Welsh Government Performance
NDM6892 Welsh Conservatives debate - Welsh Government Performance
NDM6892 Darren
Millar (Clwyd West)
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1.
Regrets that since December 2009:
a)
referral-to-treatment waiting times in the Welsh NHS have increased;
b)
performance against both the 4 and 12 hour targets in Welsh emergency
departments has deteriorated;
c)
cancer treatment targets have never been met in Wales;
d)
the number of beds in Welsh hospitals has fallen;
e)
GCSE performance has deteriorated in Wales with attainment of A*-C grades for
summer 2018 the worst since 2005;
f)
Wales’s OECD PISA scores are worse in reading, maths and science with the most
recent results being worse than in 2009, placing Wales in the bottom half of
the OECD global ranking and at the bottom of the UK rankings;
g)
scores of Welsh schools have permanently closed;
h)
gross disposable household income as a percentage of the UK average has fallen;
i)
Wales has had the poorest average wages growth rate of the UK nations;
j)
business rates in Wales have become less competitive than other parts of the
UK; and
k)
the annual number of new homes being built in Wales has fallen.
2.
Calls upon the Welsh Government to acknowledge its failures, abandon its
failing policies, and to deliver the positive change that Wales needs.
The
following amendment was tabled:
Amendment
1 - Julie
James (Swansea West)
Delete
all after Wales and replace with:
1. Recognises:
a) Almost
nine out of 10 people are treated within the target time of 26 weeks
b) Investment
in the Welsh NHS is at record levels
c) More
people are surviving cancer than ever in Wales and receiving treatment within
the target time
d) The
proportion of pupils awarded the top GCSE grades at A* to A increased to 18.5%
in 2018
e) 8.7%
of pupils were awarded A* at A-level in 2018 – the best results in Wales since
the grade was introduced in 2010
f) Gross
disposable household income in 2016 was £15,835 per person, equivalent to 81.5%
of the UK GDHI, up from 2015
g) Gross
weekly earnings in 2018 for full-time employees working in Wales have increased
by 2.1% since 2017
h) 1.5m
people were employed in Wales in the three months to September 2018, up 4.2% on
the same period a year earlier – the largest increase of any UK country or
region
i) Three-quarters
of small business in Wales receive help with rates bills and half pay no
non-domestics rates at all
j) 20,000
new affordable homes will be built with Welsh Government funding this Assembly
term.
2. Thanks
the First Minister for his leadership and his work during his nine years in
office.
Business type: Debate
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Status: Complete
First published: 10/06/2021
Decision due: 5 Dec 2018 by Plenary - Fifth Senedd
Lead member: Darren Millar MS