James Evans MS urges new minister to deliver results for Wales during lively Senedd session

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James Evans hopes the appointment of a “Minister for Delivery” will help the Welsh Government achieve greater success in hitting its targets.  The Brecon and Radnorshire MS asked at the Senedd how the Delivery Minister, Julie James, will ensure that Cabinet Secretaries deliver on the Government's priorities.  Video from Senedd.tv

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00:00How will the Counsel General ensure that the Cabinet Secretaries will deliver on Government priorities?

00:05Thank you for the question. It remains the responsibility of the relevant portfolio Cabinet Secretary

00:10to lead delivery of the Government's priorities.

00:12My role will be to provide additional capacity to support my Cabinet colleagues

00:16by bringing people together across Government to find innovative ways of driving delivery of our priorities at greater pace.

00:22Minister, it is good to see that after 25 years, the Welsh Labour Government have finally decided

00:27that they need to deliver for the Welsh public, and appointed a Minister for Delivery.

00:32As we've seen, house building targets missed, NHS waiting lists getting longer,

00:38and education standards dropping—not the sort of delivery that the Welsh public were hoping for.

00:43So I'm very interested to learn how your role will work, and how will you ensure that Cabinet Secretaries

00:49will deliver on their priorities, as set out by the First Minister?

00:52Because you've been supposed to have been delivering for 25 years,

00:55and I'm sure the public would love to know how you're going to deliver now.

01:00Well, thank you very much for that, because I'll tell you why I'm grateful for it.

01:04And you've made this mistake before.

01:06I would be more than happy to come with a list of Welsh Government achievements,

01:10which I'm happy to read out, Llywydd.

01:11The last occasion on which I started to do that, the Llywydd had to cut me off

01:18because I'd run out of time very significantly,

01:20because of the large number of things that we've delivered over the last 25 years.

01:24So, if the Conservatives would like to give me the opportunity to do that,

01:27again, I'd be more than grateful to take it.

01:30It would be a great pleasure.

01:31In fact, what we're talking about here is a very serious subject about trying to deliver

01:36in the face of serious, serious underfunding of public services,

01:40and a real cost-of-living crisis entirely brought on by the Conservatives,

01:44who are baying on the opposite bench, but really do not like it when I come back at them in that way.

01:50So, the absolute truth is that you cannot have decent public services

01:54without decent public service funding, which we have been deprived of for 14 years.

01:58What we are trying to do here is maximise the scarce resource we have

02:02to deliver on our promises for the people of Wales,

02:04something we have always done, and which is very scarce on the opposite benches.

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