Welsh Conservative Party Policies to Fix Wales!

Fix our Welsh NHS
•    Declare a health emergency – to focus the efforts of government on the number one priority of driving down waiting times, ensuring no patient waits more than 12 months for treatment, and introducing a seven-day GP wait guarantee.
•    Create an NHS Leadership Register – to ensure that failed managers are not simply rehired to new positions within the Welsh NHS.
•    Public inquiry into Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

Fix education
•    Children to be automatically excluded for carrying knives into school.
•    A mobile phone ban in schools – coupled with a renewed discipline drive.
•    Reinstate Home Economics to the school curriculum.

Putting more money in people’s pockets:
• Cut the basic rate of income tax by 1p – funded through efficiency measures across government departments, protecting health, schools and farming.

Fix transport
•    Return to a 30mph default speed limit – ensuring sensitive areas, such as schools and hospitals remain 20mph.
•    Unfreeze all road projects – and no more new cycle lanes until roads are fixed.
•    Deliver an M4 Relief Road.

Support our farmers
• Introduce a Welsh Conservative Farming and Countryside Scheme – to replace Labour’s unpopular Sustainable Farming Scheme, ensuring food security is at its heart by listening to the farming community.
• Protect and increase funding for agriculture, providing an additional £100 million for farming over the next Senedd term.

Focus on the people’s priorities
• Initiate an Anti-Waste Action Plan – to bear down on wasteful spending and inefficiency across departments.
• Scrap Senedd expansion – reversing the creation of 36 more politicians.
• Cut spending on non-devolved issues – such as overseas offices, constitutional commissions and ‘justice delivery’.
• Cut ministerial pay and freeze for public sector employees earning more than £100,000.
• Protect women only spaces in all public sector organisations under control of Senedd – such as schools, hospital wards and leisure centres.
• Match the childcare offer available in England.
• Provide £40 million for hospices over the Senedd term, ringfencing funding for Wales’ children’s hospices to meet 50% of their operating costs.
• Support our Veterans with additional support worth millions for mentoring services, free bus travel and create a National Museum for the Armed Forces to commemorate Wales’ contributions to keeping the UK safe