National Assembly for Wales

Our cross-Government employability plan outlines key actions regarding support for individuals, the responsibilities of employers, addressing skills gaps and preparing for the future world of work. We are working closely with regional skills partnerships to ensure that skills provision responds to the skills gaps and needs identified in each region.

Welsh Government value the significant contribution credit unions make to support the financial inclusion of our citizens. Credit unions will receive £844,000 over the next two years to take forward a variety of community projects. An additional £1 million has also been agreed to support credit unions with their growth.

Our approach to capital investment is set out in the Wales infrastructure investment plan. The outline draft budget published later today will set out our capital plans for 2019-20 and 2020-21.

We want people in Wales to live long and healthy lives and we have put in place a number of progressive policies to achieve that ambition. We continue to work closely with Public Health Wales to both monitor the ongoing pattern of life expectancy and further explore the underlying factors.

We are now 11 months into our revised TB eradication programme. However, it is too early to draw any meaningful conclusions about the success of the enhancements we put in place last October. The Cabinet Secretary for rural affairs intends to make a statement on progress in April 2019. 

We are currently developing our delivery plan, which will set out actions to meet our first carbon budget and further proposals for the longer term decarbonisation of our economy. We are also on track to publish our climate change adaptation plan in December for consultation.