The Conservatives quit a Senedd committee charged with addressing gaps in the UK Covid-19 inquiry after Labour blocked calls for witnesses to swear an oath.
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Call for long-term cancer strategy as 9,000 wait too long for treatment
Cancer charities joined forces to call for a longer-term national strategy to improve services after 9,000 people waited too long for treatment last year.
Welsh ministers ’embarrassed’ over Crown Estate devolution
Plaid Cymru’s Luke Fletcher said 75% of the public supports devolving powers over the Crown Estate, which owns much of the seabed around Wales and 50,000 acres of land.
‘Slow progress’ on fire service reform criticised
Conservative Altaf Hussain raised concerns about the pace of change since Fenella Morris’ independent review of the culture of South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
School transport ‘no longer fit for purpose’
Senedd Members called for a long-awaited overhaul of “inadequate” school transport, warning too many pupils facing barriers to accessing education.
Senedd backs ‘buy-one-get-one-free’ ban amid obesity crisis
The Senedd narrowly backed plans to ban offers on unhealthy food and drinks including “buy-one-get-one-free” deals in an effort to tackle high rates of obesity.
Senedd supports ‘scores on the doors’ for care homes
The Senedd supported plans to introduce inspection ratings for care homes, with service providers set to be required to publish “scores on the doors”.
‘One of the biggest scandals of devolution’: call for inquiry into botched insulation scheme
Petitioners called for a public inquiry into a government-backed insulation scheme that left people thousands of pounds out of pocket.
New law to ‘eliminate’ profit from looked-after children’s care gets Royal Assent
It means no new for-profit providers of children’s care homes, fostering and secure accommodation services would be able to register in Wales from April 2026.
Give businesses a say on how tourism tax money is spent, committee argues
The Welsh Government is set to introduce a visitor levy, or tourism tax, from 2027. The aim is to generate money that can be reinvested into Wales’ tourism sector.