NDM8890 Plaid Cymru Debate - Welsh Government performance during the Sixth Senedd

NDM8890 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)

Propose that the Senedd:

1. Notes that today marks a year until the 2026 Senedd election, and that since the last election:

a) NHS waiting lists have increased by approximately 200,000;

b) Wales’s continued economic under-performance is reflected by an employment rate that is the lowest of the UK nations;

c) child poverty levels are set to reach their highest rates in 30 years by the end of this decade; and

d) Wales’s scores are the lowest they have ever been since first participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment in 2006.

2. Believes that:

a) the Welsh Labour Government has abandoned those who put it in power;

b) educational, economic and health outcomes will be better under fresh leadership;

c) the interests of the people of Wales cannot be served by a Welsh Government answerable to the UK Prime Minister; and

d) the people of Wales will benefit from further devolution and ultimately, independence.

3. Calls on the Welsh Government to maximise the potential of devolution, demand that Wales is granted parity of powers with Scotland, and stand up to the UK Government’s disrespectful treatment of Wales.