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That afternoon and welcome to the first programme since the summer | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
break. Assembly Members are backing Cardiff paper the first session and | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
First Minister's Questions since July. We can expect questions on the | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
GP numbers, the steel industry and the proposed South Wales metro as | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
well. You can follow all the latest on Welsh politics by our Twitter | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
feed. Business in the chamber is already under way so let's take a | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
look at today's questions to the First Minister. Order and I call the | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
National Assembly to order and the first item that afternoon is | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
questions to the First Minister. Neil Hamilton. Will the First | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government is doing to assist | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
with the GP crisis in Mid and West Wales. We have increased investment | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
through our primary care plan. We are working closely with health | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
boards who are responsible for providing services for their | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
populations and ensuring continuity of high-quality care when an | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
independent general practice hands back its business contract. I am | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
grateful for that reply but fine words and no parsnips. For the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
people in to leave Orellana if they would get any consolation from what | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
he says. A surgery in Porthmadog which serves 7500 people recently | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
announced they would only see those who are acutely unwell. In Blaenau | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Ffestiniog the practice of four doctors has been reduced to one and | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
there is nobody available. Over half the GP 's end to evil are over 55. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Visit not time for the government to get its act together and make a | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
health service that for the people of Wales. These are independent | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
contractors and they are entitled to seek help from the local health | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
boards and where those contractors have decided not provide that | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
service health boards have provided an equally good if not better | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
service. We know there are difficulties in recruiting GPs. It | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
is not an issue confined to Wales. We are looking to launch a GP | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
recruitment campaign lacks month in order to make sure that we can once | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
again betray Wales as a good place to be a doctor and of course to | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
provide the flexibility the profession now needs. Joyce Watson. | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
I was also busy meeting health forums in the summer and I did ask a | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
question last July where you quite clearly answered me that you are | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
bringing forward proposals for a national and an international | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
campaign to market Wales and the NHS as an attractive place to work. That | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
work would include recruitment and training and retention of GPs. Could | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
I ask you therefore First Minister whether there is progress that has | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
been taken forward through the summer. Next month we will be | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
launching an international marketing campaign to highlight Wales as a | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
great place to train, work and live and the secretary will be outlining | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
the campaign in his statement next week. It will be a step change in | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
the way we market Wales to doctors. For the communities in Porthmadog, | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Newtown, Cardigan, Tenby, Pembroke Dock, all of those communities that | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
have to wait a fortnight these days for an appointment with a GP, they | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
do feel there is a crisis and they feel there is a problem with | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
recruitment and a shortage of GPs willing to stay in that area. There | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
are particular problems in terms of those who want to become partners in | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
surgeries. What in addition can the government to to recruit GPs but | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
also what is the future of the private surgery as part of the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
health service for primary care? When you mention private surgeries | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
are you talking about the independent contractors? That of | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
course is the current model and for some it will be the future model. I | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
don't think it is the sole model you can have because more and more GPs | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
wish to have the opportunity to move from one practice to another. We are | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
working with the BMA and the Royal College in order to ensure that the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
campaign we launched next month is effective and of course we expect | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
the health boards to work with GPs because when problems have been | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
highlighted we must ensure that doctors can in as locums and that | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
needs to happen temporarily to sustain the future of surgeries. The | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
crux of the matter is to ensure that more doctors wish to work in Wales. | :05:59. | :06:11. | |
Given that we now have three health boards that have targeted | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
intervention and on health board in special measures this drive to | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
recruit GPs has to talk about recruiting the whole family because | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
otherwise these GPs will not want to work in areas where they feel it is | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
not going to be substantial back-up medically for them in their | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
practices. We need to make sure that these GPs who want to come to Wales | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
and you are right it is a great place to live and work, but they | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
will want to bring their families and part is and their children and | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
they all want good schools and good jobs that their partners can also | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
undertake. It's not just about one person we are recruiting, it's an | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
entire family and if we can get that family over the border we can keep | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
them but we have to give them that whole package. When you look at this | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
recruitment programme will you be that in mind and bear in mind that | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
all these GP practices will be looking to their hospitals and the | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
local NHS for the service they need to back-up their support for their | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
patients and with four out of eight in some kind of trouble it's not | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
good news. We don't have a funding crisis as England does all the | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
doctors strike but she does make an important point. It is absolutely | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
right that you have to target the family. For many years GPs would | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
come to an area and quite often they had a spouse who was not working but | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
that is no longer the case. We have to provide opportunities for a | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
partner and a good environment for children. That will be part of the | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
campaign we are launching October. Bethan Jenkins. Will the First | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
Minister tell us what support the government is giving to the steel | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
industry in Wales? Members were sent a full update yesterday. No progress | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
has yet been made with the UK Government in terms of the issues of | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
energy and pensions. In that letter from the minister it says that | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
progress is being made on a range of projects which will allow the Welsh | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
plans to become more capable of withstanding the global competition | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
including an improvement project for Port Talbot as well as the research | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
and develop the project. These are Plaid Cymru ideas that you have | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
taken on board. I wonder whether you would like to give us information on | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the development of the power plant and also the research and | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
development activities at Swansea University which we proposed to you | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
and you have kindly taken on board. The principle of keeping our steel | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
industry was not wholly a Plaid Cymru idea. We have been discussing | :09:03. | :09:12. | |
these plans fears. What I can say, negotiations are ongoing but the | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
progress have been made. We are seeking to provide a platform for | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
the long-term future of our steel industry. Energy and pensions are | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
still not resolved at the UK Government level. David Rees. We are | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
seeing Welsh Government support for the steel industry through those | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
projects and I welcome that but we have seen over the summer financial | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
improvements in the steel industry at Port Talbot where we saw losses | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
being discussed and now there are profits. 5 million in July. We are | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
seeing progress in steel-making in Wales. When you met the Prime | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Minister you talked about the steel and you have party mentioned the | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
issue of the UK Government was my position. Kitchen became they would | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
be working to improve the situation with the pensions fund and are they | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
making any movements towards the energy costs because they the big | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
issues that any perspective by had concerns about. The previous Prime | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Minister was proactive in this regard. We have not heard as much | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
from the current government. They have been initial conversations and | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
they have not been negative. But in the next few weeks we need to see | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
some progress. We have correspondence going back five years | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
with the government on energy prices for all our energy industries. We | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
cannot afford to be seen as an expensive place to manage patch. | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
Suzy Davies. Following representation by the Prime Minister | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Theresa May the GE 20 members set up a forum to tackle overcapacity and | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
production in the global steel market so the UK is moving ahead and | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
getting world leaders to confront the central question as well as | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
dealing with the issues they have already been acting on. I accept the | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Welsh Government has a more limited role. But it can make it practical | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
difference in my region. Pulling out of a deal that could have saved 200 | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
jobs as part of the steel industry supply chain was not helpful. Can | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
you tell us what you are doing to assist stability in the Welsh steel | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
supply chain? More than anything else what we are doing is assisting | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Tata steel and looking at ways they can save money. We are seeing what | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
we can do in terms of skills and training and providing the support | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
they need in order to be sustainable in the longer term. There are issues | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
regarding the businesses which had feared issues with tartar steel | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
which led to the consequences that the members mentioned but we are | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
confident we can put together a good package in terms of what we can | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
offer but we now need to see progress on two major issues. | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
Caroline Jones. Welsh steel and other energy intensive industries | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
are suffering as a result of EU imposed carbon reduction policies | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
which have resulted in a higher energy bill. In order to secure the | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
future of Welsh steel we have to drop EU legislation which pushes up | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
our energy costs. Do you agree with me that the best support the Welsh | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Government can give the Welsh steel industry is to press the UK | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Government to complete the Brexit process as soon as possible? The | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
biggest threat to the steel industry 's tariffs. We export 30% of the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
steel we produce and anything that increases the price of that steel | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
would be helpful. When she talks about carbon reduction she talks | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
about more emissions so more coming out of the steelworks than before. | :13:16. | :13:28. | |
There is another point here. If you look at other countries in the EU | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
with energy prices are lower than ours. If you look at Germany 20% | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
lower. If you look at Spain 37% lower. It is nothing to do with the | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
EU, it's to do with EE UK's alleged energy markets. It is not in EU | :13:47. | :13:58. | |
issue. The energy industry is not transparent enough. The UK is an | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
expensive place to do business because of this energy costs. The UK | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
is more expensive than many of our competitive countries and that has | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
to change. It's nothing to do with emissions it's to do with the way | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
the market operates in the UK. As you are aware the plants in Newport | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
in my constituency are very important parts of the overall Tata | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
steel operations in Wales. Will you assure me that those plans will | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
continue to be properly considered in Welsh Government actions to | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
ensure a sustainable steel industry in Wales? The four major sites are | :14:47. | :15:09. | |
hugely important and the operations we want to keep in Wales. We will be | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
exporting steel from Wales. For plants important. I welcome they are | :15:15. | :15:26. | |
not -- the oldest enamoured by Tata. -- the August announcement. I urge | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
the Welsh comic will follow to make sure we consider that a successful | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
and profitable site like Shotton is integral to any discussions and the | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
steel industry going forward. I have been across to all four sites. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Shotton always was a profitable site but as it was said to mean Shotton | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
it would be very difficult for it to operate without the steel and Port | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
Talbot because it would take about six months to source a steal from | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
someone else of Port Talbot was not there. That would be an obvious | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
knock-on effect of Port Talbot was not there. We now move to questions | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
from the party leaders. First of all, Neil Hamilton from Ukip. And | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
sure we'll all agree on congratulating the Welsh athletes in | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
their performance in the Olympic Games and weddings are many gold | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
medals. I don't expect him to agree with me that he and his decision | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
should get the wooden spoon for pouring cold water on the Welsh | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
chances of hosting the Commonwealth Games here in 2026. The cost | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
involved is ?1.5 billion and at this moment in time that cost would mean | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
there would be no money to watch major events for the next decade in | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
Wales. The Scots were able to host the games at a cheaper price because | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
they did not have to build as much as we have too. We would have to | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
build a new athletic Stadium and velodrome and extend the pool we | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
have at the moment. The Carter cost would be huge for would make it very | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
difficult for the Commonwealth Games to go to smaller countries these | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
days. What we wanted was to put in a Welsh bed and that was not looked at | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
favourably, opted launch a joint bid for cities in England which are not | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
possible with the current rules governing Commonwealth Games built. | :17:26. | :17:40. | |
-- bed. --Bid. I accept the point about the capital cost of improving | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
the Welsh infrastructure. We're talking about 1.1 billion one 5p. | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
The context of a Welsh government budget of ?15 billion per year were | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
talking about peanuts. What I'm asking the First Minister to do is | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
waste sites embraces game and promote Wales the world through the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
exploits of our athletes and what we need is action from a government to | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
match that in improving the sporting infrastructure in Wales so we can | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
host the games in 2026. There is a significant opportunity cost. We | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
have been hugely successful in many years for attracting major events to | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Wales ever Champions League final coming next year we've had a rugby | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
League Cup and we have the speedway every year without the rugby league | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
and union World Cups and major cricket matches and no money would | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
be available for any of those events welly to host the Commonwealth | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Games. To my mind we use that money to bring in events such as those, | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
the Champions League final four example is an enormously useful way | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
of promoting Wales and is the largest single sporting event of the | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
world. If we were to go for the Commonwealth Games, the money would | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
not be there to attract investment like that in future. The First | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
Minister seems to have a rather static view of his functions as | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
First Minister. Why do we take a more dynamic view of these projects? | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Other countries do. They can see the advantages of racing our | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
aspirations. This in a long line of projects which the government has | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
poured cold water on. These are all projects that were too difficult and | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
too hard kick them into long grass and ultimately do nothing. It is not | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
nothing to have -- is not good enough to have do nothing | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
administration here. He seems to have a delusion about money because | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
it is a significant financial commitment it would involve and it | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
would have meant we would not be able to host many events in future | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
and would have a knock-on effect of capital budgets. Much better to look | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
at investing in grassroots sport. Yes, and building up infrastructure, | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
with little to velodrome receipts which we don't have the national | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
pool which does not have seats. And diving pool. But the cost is talking | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
about a huge and we have looted all the options of the Commonwealth | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
Games and looked at hosting the games were somebody else and those | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
options were closed off to us. Much better that we're able to use a | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
monitor events such as the Champions League final which will broadcast | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
wheels to huge audience around the world. -- Wales. The terms on which | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
we leave the European Union will define a feature of the Welsh | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
economy and all of Welsh politics. You have said that Wales should have | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
a veto if the Brexit deal is not a good one for Wales. It is one thing | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
to call for a veto but we need to see fission and people are looking | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
to you for that comprehensive detailed inspiring vision of what | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Wales looks like after we leave the European Union. Fighting for what we | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
already have in terms of funding is not sufficient. That would just | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
deliver the bare minimum which is not good enough. When can we expect | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
to hear your vision as to what new Wales would look like after we the | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
European Union or don't you have one? It would be Wales is very much | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
still part of Europe and looks out words and continues to be successful | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
in attracting investment and that is the message to the United States | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
last week. It is used for importing of tariff free access to the | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
marketing goods and services. It would not be too advantage of tyres | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
were imposed. Yes, in keeping with the promise that was made by the UK | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
Government we want to make sure that Wales does not miss out on any. What | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
we need to explore is what kind of model we need. | :21:49. | :22:00. | |
The WTO model does not work to my mind as far as Wales is concerned. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
We need to understand that they do a UK Government will keep its | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
commitment that all government will be at their heart of negotiations | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
are not at the end of negotiations in the UK Government itself has to | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
work out what it once. It is talked about a bespoke deal but what are | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
the elements of those deal? What is the UK Government is essential? For | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
me, funding and access to the single market are fundamental. Without them | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Wales would undoubtedly lose out. The Nice to be examination as to | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
what it means for freedom of movement. We know that many people | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
voted to leave because of that issue and then is to be handled carefully | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
in terms of the public view. The next steps are the Cabinet | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
subcommittee met yesterday to look at the initial challenges that | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Brexit presents and external advisory group will meet at the end | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
of the month. That is not a vision. You have outlined the next steps. | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
You have outlined what you would like to see the Prime Minister do | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
much have not told us what you want to see for Wales. There have been | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
mixed messages coming from your UK leader on this question of single | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
market membership and your own statements have not been much clear | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
that either. You have called for a free access to the European single | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
market and you've also said that she wants uninterrupted access and last | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
week who said he wanted to see a seven year moratorium on the free | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
movement of people. I was in Brussels last week with a number of | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
members from my team that has made absolutely clear to us that you | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
cannot have complete free access without accepting free movement of | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
people. Access can include all kinds of costs including tariffs and we | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
have heard today how that would be bad for steel. It could mean custom | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
charges, all of which would be against the best interests of Wales. | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
First Minister, do you believe that Wales should remain as a member of | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
the single market when we leave the European Union? Yes, I have said | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
that many times. Thank you for clarity on that point. You | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
contradicted that position last week. Finally we have clarity and | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
I'm grateful to you for that. Last night your Labour MPs, Welsh Labour | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
MPs, voted against the worst legal jurisdiction. The amendment Labour | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
voted against was from your very own government and laws in Wales Bill. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
And that is not the first time that has happened. When they voted | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
against life company back in July he said the problem was of timing and | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
not of principle. --Plaid Cymru. Why can't you influence your colleagues | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
in Westminster? I have often said that access to the single market is | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
essential. Access is not membership. Access to the single market on | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
tariffs and services is absolutely crucial that I've been saying that | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
ad nauseam. And what matters in Westminster is a matter in | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
Westminster. We have taken the view that distinction of Jews dish is | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
important about the cannot be a lasting devolution settlement for | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Wales. The leader of the Welsh Conservatives. First Minister, last | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
week you were America and promoting what Wales has to offer the | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
businesses looking to invest. -- distinction of jurisdiction. Use the | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
speech about the break-up of the United Kingdom which seemed rather | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
odd when you are looking to promote a product worth hundreds of millions | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
of dollars. Can you explain why you use the trade mission to use the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
platform for the break-up of the letter kingdom? What did not say was | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
that those in business are fat and lazy golfers which is a theme of his | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
party at the moment. I wonder please actually read my speech. Amid a very | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
clear that the work challenges -- I made a very clear that work | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
challenges as fathers -- as far as Brexit was concerned. I also said | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
there was huge challenges for the UK. It clearly came over that you're | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
fantasising again about the break-up of the letter kingdom which is | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
something you spend a lot of time talking about. Is anybody who goes | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
before an entrepreneur you do not go and test the product you're trying | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
to sell. One thing you could have done is gone over to Detroit and | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
spoken at the headquarters of Ford and spoken to the directors and | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
senior management team about the announcement that was made last week | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
about cutting back production at the Bridgend facility. There are still | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
?100 million of investment going into the engine facility that is a | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
significant announcement and the half of Ford about how they will | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
take forward the dynamics of that plan. That you request a meeting | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
with Ford and if he did why was not granted? Yes, we did request a | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
meeting but we were told the meeting should we with them. That in terms | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
of a comment you made earlier about it is quite clearly is not read my | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
speech and is just picked up on giving the impression I said a seven | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
thing which is good for I have not read the speech it is just what I've | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
seen online. It is read by some interest by people who were there. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Like him I want to make sure that the UK is intact in the future but | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
it cannot carry on is when there are so many changes coming down the line | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
when we leave the EU. But this book to business in America every single | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
one of them wanted to know what happened next with Brexit. It was | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
the theme as far as American investors are concerned that I was | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
able to say to them that my view was it was hugely important we have | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
access to this and marketing of fee basis and is sadly give their | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
beliefs and they were happy to hear that because they had not heard from | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
the UK Government. It is hugely important that the UK Government now | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
make sure has coherent view rather than what we saw the Foreign | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
Secretary doing this week. We need to seek coherence annuity in the UK | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
Government. I regret that Ford and tried title not prepared to meet you | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
because as I understand it that is where the decision about investment | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
was taken and they seem to have passed the ball back to Ford Europe | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
on this matter. That the three legitimate questions which I hope | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
that your government has been acting with Ford on. How can that Giles be | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
secured with such a dramatic cutback in their plant and what's new lines | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
could potentially come to the plant to secure the 1850 jobs and it is | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
fair to say the worst government have put money on the table to | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
retain jobs at their job plant at a level of 850 jobs I understand it. | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
Obviously there are 850 jobs at that site at the moment of what | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
assurances can you give around the assurances the worst government have | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
been given around new products coming to the plant and above all | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
about the future viability of the plant? | :29:54. | :30:07. | |
They explored every engine they make. Tariffs have been at 5% and | :30:08. | :30:18. | |
possibly a 10% tariff coming back in. Nobody can cope with that. Many | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
businesses in the States said the same thing. They are waiting to see | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
what happens with regard to what the UK does. If we manage to secure | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
tariff free access to the European market I think the problem is | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
resolved. That is what is that investors are looking for. They | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
don't see the UK is isolated, they see it as part of Europe. The Ford | :30:46. | :30:55. | |
workforce are efficient but they cannot be put in a situation where | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
tariff barriers will interfere with the future viability of the plant | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
which is why I have been clear that whatever model the UK adopts that | :31:03. | :31:12. | |
the UK Government needs to declare that position now in order to give | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
that certainty. Question three Nick Ramsay. Will the First Minister | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
provide an update on the development of the South Wales Metro? The | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
procurement for the operator and partner for the Wales and Borders | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
franchise has started and subject to a successful competition the | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
contract will be awarded at the end of next year. Our rail network has | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
been on the minds of my constituents with the start-up the six-week | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
closure period of the seven tunnel. Speed of travel is a key aspect of | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
our quality-of-life site was very concerned to hear that the town of | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
Monmouth might not be part of the future Metro map following funding | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
concerns. How can you reassure my constituents are Metro scheme will | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
reach all parts of south-east Wales so that nobody feels excluded and is | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
the government looking at all Metro options in rural areas? We have no | :32:12. | :32:19. | |
plans to change the current proposals and Monmouth is part of | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
the Metro in terms of its future development. What is correct is that | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
?125 million worth of funding for the Metro was due from European | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
funding and without that funding clearly there will be a limit on how | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
far and how fast the Metro project can proceed. I have heard what was | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
said that Wales would not lose out as a result of leaving the EU and | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
funding for each and every part of the UK including Wales will be safe | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
if we vote to leave. Andrew R.T. Davies said that. He has his own | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
leader's assured us that that money will be available for the Metro and | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
I'm sure he will receive that assurance. Several of us on these | :33:02. | :33:11. | |
benches are also members of the corporative party and spent part of | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
the weekend discussing the role of social enterprises in the Welsh | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
economy. Do you agree it would be a positive outcome to see social | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
enterprises and corpse involved integrally in the delivery of | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
various aspects of the South Wales Metro? Absolutely. We want to see a | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
model that invests in the network itself and the model that provides | :33:33. | :33:39. | |
good service to passengers and a fair price. Before the recess the | :33:40. | :33:50. | |
First Minister dismissed suggestions that within the economic plan for | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
the capital region that a distinct daters should be afforded to the | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
city of Newport and other centres outside Cardiff. Love the First | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
Minister confirm that his plans for the capital region amounted to no | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
more than making the committee to Cardiff easier rather than a | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
comprehensive plan to spread job creation opportunities across the | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
entire Southeast? Of course Newport on the valleys are part of the | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
region because the reality is 11 million people year come to Cardiff | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
station. Is this simply about bringing people from Valley | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
communities to Cardiff? That is half the story but the other half is to | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
make it easier for investors to move feared investments in the Valley | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
communities as it comes easier to get there. It will be a two-way | :34:40. | :34:53. | |
flow. Whilst my party welcomes the Metro project closer inspection | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
makes it difficult to envisage any real advantage it brings to the | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
conurbations of the Eastern valleys. Could the First Minister, where if | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
any improvements had envisaged to enhance connectivity for this area? | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
We have the existing rail network into Cardiff on that offers the | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
opportunity to examine how those networks can be made quicker in the | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
future. The point about the Metro is it is extendable. It's not about | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
simply looking at the structure we have at the moment. The Metro in the | :35:26. | :35:37. | |
future will include new bus connectivity so Eastern Cardiff is | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
in the same situation. It is poorly served by the rail network and as | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
the Metro rules out we need to look at these areas with real | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
transporters nonexistent to make sure those gaps are filled in the | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
future. Question four, Neil McEvoy. It is the First Minister stand by | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
his position from 2012 that it is appropriate to Cardiff Council to | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
have plans to build tens of thousands of new houses within the | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
city's boundaries with a large number of those on green fields? I | :36:09. | :36:18. | |
have never taken such a position. You said on the 14th of June and I | :36:19. | :36:31. | |
found the South Wales Echo from the 5th of April 2012 where you were | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
quoted announcing that Labour would introduce a local development plan | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
under the current system. The South Wales Echo in its editorial said the | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
newspaper firmly disagreed with you, that tens of thousands of houses had | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
to be built within the city's limits. The reported comments which | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
you have denied. So my questionnaires what was the editor | :37:01. | :37:02. | |
of the South Wales Echo also living in a land of our -- and to see and | :37:03. | :37:07. | |
do you stand by your comments on the matter? I never make comments on | :37:08. | :37:14. | |
planning applications. It's the whole pod of being in government. | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
The reason why the story appeared in the paper is because he put it | :37:19. | :37:30. | |
there. I never make any comment on any LDP anywhere in Wales is far as | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
whether it should go ahead or not. There is a proper procedure for | :37:38. | :37:45. | |
doing that. David Melding. But they remind the chamber that over the | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
last 15 years we have built an average 8000 homes a year in Wales | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
when trends indicated that we needed to build 12,000 homes. If we have | :37:57. | :38:04. | |
any catch up we need to go beyond 12,000 homes a year and the sad fact | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
is if we don't face up to the housing crisis it is young people | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
after family homes that will be denied decent living conditions that | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
most of us will have enjoyed in our upbringing. It's true to say that | :38:19. | :38:26. | |
demand has exceeded supply the many years. That housing has to go where | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
it is needed. It has to go with Amanda 's highest. | :38:32. | :38:42. | |
They are sometimes not without controversy but we have to make sure | :38:43. | :38:46. | |
that we have enough houses available for people who need them. I won't go | :38:47. | :38:55. | |
into the issue of what the First Minister did or did not saying 2012 | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
but there is an important issue here regarding overdevelopment of Cardiff | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
and major housing developments which have been proposed and are likely to | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
go ahead which go against the wishes of most of the current residents of | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
the city. It is the first most agree there is a problem with a lack of | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
accountability in the planning system in Wales particularly with | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
planning Inspectorate and should we make move in the assembly to tell it | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
the powers of the planning Inspectorate in Wales? There has to | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
be a process of examination that is robust. Cardiff is a growing city. | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
Its publishing has expanded mightily over the last 30 years and how you | :39:36. | :39:45. | |
deal with that demand, it's not simply a matter that Cardiff because | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
we know that Tim and would be their outside of the city boundaries as | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
well. But be another going to get to a position where we are not building | :39:54. | :40:00. | |
any houses. For local authorities they have two reduce a local | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
development plan and put forward the evidence for their plans and have | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
those plans tested and I think that is a robust system to make sure an | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
LDP has been tested as thoroughly as possible. Question five. Will you | :40:16. | :40:23. | |
provide an update on the Welsh Government's progress in recruiting | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
more GPs? Plans to recruit and train GPs and other health care | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
professionals is a priority. There is concern in kid welly because of | :40:40. | :40:49. | |
the difficulty in recruiting and retaining GPs. Local councillors | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
have been working hard to inform the community and Hywel Dda Health Board | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
has been trying to recruit a clinical team to the surgery to | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
bring in locums. I was pleased to hear that the government is planning | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
a recruitment campaign. It's essential that the Welsh Government | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
works with health boards and they are not left to run their own | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
campaigns in isolation. Would he give us some details about his | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
thoughts on adapting the model that GPs currently have in building up | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
their own surgeries and buying into them? I understand that to locums | :41:23. | :41:37. | |
have been recruited and the service has been resumed. What I notice with | :41:38. | :41:45. | |
many younger GPs is they don't want to buy the practices, they want | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
flexibility. Raising the money to buy into practice is tricky and they | :41:51. | :41:52. | |
want the flexibility of moving around. The days when GPs went | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
somewhere and stayed for their working lives are fewer and fewer | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
want to do that. The NHS has to adapt to that reality. It means that | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
where health boards to go the surgeries quite often the services | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
are enhanced. With it is another practice which next -- needs to take | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
over, there has to be a different models in the future to make sure | :42:20. | :42:21. | |
general practices seen as attractive. Rhun ap Iorwerth. Last | :42:22. | :42:34. | |
week I met with a number of GPs from Anglesey and we discussed how we | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
could encourage more young people to aspire to a career as a GP and I'm | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
sure the First Minister will share my concern about the reduction of | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
15% in the nub of Welsh domiciled students who have been applying to | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
study medicine. I am sure he would also support my call for the | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
training of more Welsh domiciled students in Wales. The figures | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
demonstrate that 80% of medical students in Northern Ireland are | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
from Northern Ireland and 50% of medical students from Scotland are | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
from Scotland. And only 20% of medical students in Wales come from | :43:17. | :43:18. | |
Wales. It is the First Minister agree that we need to change that | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
percentage and that has to include an element of quotas? I think it's | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
fair to make that point. I would wish to see more young people | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
training in Wales. I have heard anecdotally of people that have been | :43:40. | :43:42. | |
given an offer from a medical school in England but not received one from | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
medical schools in Wales. That is a concern. We must ensure that more | :43:49. | :43:56. | |
and more young people wish to become doctors and also ensure there is | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
more of an opportunity for them to train in Wales. I do understand that | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
way you train has a great impact on where you work later on. The planned | :44:04. | :44:13. | |
primary care workforce for Wales referenced the emerging role of | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
physicians associations and medical schools as a way of boosting the | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
numbers of GPs in Wales. Given the undeniable crisis of GP provision in | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
Wales, how have you taken this recommendation forward and what | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
plans do you have in place to increase on just 27 funded places | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
available through our medical schools in Wales? | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
The crisis in Wales this crisis across the rest of Britain. It is | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
difficult to attracting GPs and we know that which is why the campaign | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
is being launched in October. It is not simply about opportunity and | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
flexibility but also about providing the right environment for their | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
wider family as well. The statement that the Cabinet Secretary will make | :45:07. | :45:09. | |
will outline in detail how that campaign will proceed. First | :45:10. | :45:17. | |
Minister, I met last Thursday with Gary Doherty, the cheek integrity of | :45:18. | :45:30. | |
the Betsy Cadwell health board. -- chief officer. -- Cadwallader. We | :45:31. | :45:45. | |
discussed training were speaking staff. -- Welsh speaking staff. Do | :45:46. | :45:53. | |
you agree this would be away for us to encourage more people to study | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
and Wales and stay in but also to help with the dearth of Welsh | :45:57. | :46:03. | |
speaking professionals and the health service? Would you be willing | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
to speak with Lord Ellis Thomas who is the Chancellor of Bangor | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
University and shall speak with Gary Doherty who agreed with me that this | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
was a good idea? It is important that any medical school can give the | :46:21. | :46:24. | |
full opportunity and training to a student and this is an issue that | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
has been raised before. If this can be done and banker. The deanery will | :46:29. | :46:36. | |
have a view on that. -- in the town of banker. -- banker. --Bangor. We | :46:37. | :46:50. | |
must not give the impression that we do not want doctors and nurses the | :46:51. | :46:59. | |
UK. Often they come from outside the EU and they are crucial. You can | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
never train people who will spend the entire working lives in the | :47:04. | :47:06. | |
country in which they are trained so you have to appeal internationally | :47:07. | :47:13. | |
as well. Will the Welsh government plans to be outlined for future | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
transport provision in North Wales be outlined by the First Minister? | :47:21. | :47:28. | |
The planned Metro North scheme will be outlined as will all parts of | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
transport in the North. How do you respond regarding English bodies | :47:35. | :47:42. | |
such as real North must have devolved franchise responsibility | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
alongside the worst government for those cross-border services such as | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
Wrexham into England which remain in a devolved franchise? It is | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
difficult to draw announced a line on the Wales and Borders franchise | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
but I would not agree with one suggestion from the Department for | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
Transport that any service in England should be run from England | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
and that would mean literally no service warning across anywhere in | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
North Wales would be controlled from Wales at all apart from one line. It | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
is the same for the Central Wales railway and the heart of Wales | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
railway and the Cambrian core services. It would be wholly | :48:22. | :48:30. | |
unacceptable. Plus we want to make sure that the Wales border service | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
with its franchises from Wales, we believe they can provide an equally | :48:38. | :48:39. | |
good service to people living in England. For the First Minister make | :48:40. | :48:47. | |
a statement of public transport in Wales? I believe that I answered you | :48:48. | :48:55. | |
in the last question. We discussed the South Wales Metro fare better in | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
the session. Your party published a plan for the Metro for the | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
north-east to all intents and purposes and they were lines on our | :49:06. | :49:08. | |
map and many stakeholders are given the opinion that. That is not | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
talking about Metro just empty talk with a basic services are not being | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
provided? Would you accept that questions your should answer? -- | :49:20. | :49:26. | |
your government should answer? Will the First Minister make a | :49:27. | :50:39. | |
statement on how the Welsh NHS keeps the principal of principles at the | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
point of care. We need comprehensive care at the point of delivery. The | :50:46. | :50:55. | |
internal market in the NHS in England has been estimated to cost | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
up to 10 million a year. Would you agree what the Welsh Labour | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
government commitment to having no internal market in the Welsh NHS has | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
been of tremendous benefit for patients and that it is a commitment | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
that will continue. I can give that commitment. Where markers have been | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
introduced in the NHS elsewhere they have led to wasted inefficiency. | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
That was First Minister's Questions. There is more coverage online. That | :51:23. | :51:35. | |
is it from First Minister's Questions this afternoon. We'll be | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
back at the later time of 4pm next week because of coverage of the | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
Liberal Democrat conference. It is conference season once again. All | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
the latest political news on Wales today later at 6:30pm. And the Welsh | :51:49. | :51:57. | |
news at 9pm on S4C. From all of us on the programme, goodbye. | :51:58. | :52:02. |