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Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board has now been under Welsh Government control for almost 3 and a half years. During that time, the Welsh Government has promised that there are staged “improvement and transformation” plans in place to improve outcomes at the Health Board. 

The Welsh Conservatives have welcomed the “long overdue” announcement made by Vaughan Gething today, but have criticised the Welsh Government’s “cynical” attempt to politicise the pay increase.

Official Welsh Government statistics released today show that two hospitals in North Wales have achieved the worst accident and emergency performance for a Welsh hospital since records began.

Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Andrew RT Davies, has responded to today’s announcement by the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, that Swansea University will receive £36m to develop building materials which generate power.

In his inaugural First Minister’s Questions as Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Paul Davies AM, sought answers from Carwyn Jones on why he vetoed recent changes recommended by Paul Bowen for the QC inquiry into the events surrounding Carl Sargeant’s death.

The new Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Paul Davies AM, has reshuffled the Shadow Cabinet in the National Assembly for Wales today, calling the changes “the first move in positioning the Welsh Conservatives as the next government of Wales”.

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The Welsh Conservatives have criticised the frontrunner in the Welsh Labour leadership contest for suggesting he would introduce a free box of childcare items for every new-born in Wales.

Welsh Conservatives have called the Welsh Labour Government’s approach to public procurement in Wales “shambolic” as it decides to end the body in its “current form”.

Timely and fully disclosed Freedom of Information (FoI) responses from Welsh public bodies are on the decline and are reaching unacceptable and unlawful levels.

Official Welsh Government figures released today show the number of beds in the Welsh health service has continued to fall year-on-year and has now declined by almost a third since 1996/97.