Wales’ performance has fallen to its lowest level ever in maths, reading and science tests taken by 15-year-olds. Wales is at the bottom of the rankings for the whole of the UK in maths, reading, and science. The latest global league tables show the performance of pupils in Wales has fallen significantly since the last…
The latest all cancers combined survival rate statistics for Wales revealed a significant fall from 75.9% in 2019 to 71.6% in 2020. Public Health Wales said that the result was only “partly due to delays in diagnosis due to people staying at home during lockdowns and changes to accessing NHS Wales healthcare, diagnostic tests, and…
The Welsh Conservative Shadow Finance Minister has written to the Labour Finance Minister, Rebecca Evans and the Chairman of the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), Richard Hughes to call for the independent fiscal watchdog to provide an economic and fiscal outlook for Wales ahead of the Welsh Government budget. Labour minister: ‘We don’t know what…
Road freight and the logistic industry play a vital role in supporting the Welsh economy by ensuring the goods that we all rely on are transported. But not only do they do so much in supporting the Welsh economy, they are the livelihoods of many people up and down Wales. Despite road freight being so…
Commenting on the news that health chiefs have warned recruiting GPs was “a national problem” and that surgeries were “withering”, Welsh Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Russell George MS said: “Our Welsh NHS is critically understaffed due to 25 years of Labour under resourcing our health service with real terms cuts to fund their vanity projects….
Commenting on the news that councils across Wales face bankruptcy if they do not receive more funding or make drastic cuts to some of their most important services, Welsh Conservative Leader, Andrew RT Davies MS said: “It is a very real concern that councils in Wales are struggling to deliver essential services. “As we know,…
Responding to her spokesperson questions to Labour’s Education Minister Jeremy Miles, Welsh Conservative Shadow Education Minister, Laura Anne Jones MS said: “With head teachers in Wales currently describing the current financial difficulties as “frightening”, I challenged the Minister on his government’s record of cutting the education budget. “The Minister constantly shrugged off blame and failed…
Morriston Hospital in the Swansea Bay area has been escalated to the highest level of alert, a Business Continuity Incident (BCI) has been issued following “extreme pressures in our emergency and unscheduled care services.” During a Business Continuity Incident or ‘black alert’, the health board diverts staff from non-acute areas of healthcare, they also enlist…
Responding to her spokesperson questions to Labour’s Climate Change Minister in the Senedd today, Welsh Conservative Shadow Climate Change Minister, Janet Finch-Saunders MS said: “We all know about the housing crisis in Wales and we all know that to address this crisis more homes must be built. Labour is currently building half the number of…
Photograph: Aberdare Upper Village Turnpike House, bottom of Cwmdare Hill Trecynon From 1652 in England and 1752 in Wales, Acts of Parliament enabled committees of the gentry and others to improve either a particular road or all the main roads in a county. These committees were known as Turnpike Trusts because a pike (or pole),…
