National Assembly for Wales

Endometriosis is one of the eight priority areas in the women’s health plan. There are seven clearly defined actions, including raising awareness, improving information available for patients and providing training and education for healthcare practitioners to ensure it is understood as a chronic condition. These will improve the experience of women accessing information, treatment and support for endometriosis. We continue to fund a specialist endometriosis nurse in each health board.

This Welsh Government is committed to tackling climate change and supporting the decarbonisation of industry. The Climate Change Committee is clear on the significant challenges of decarbonising industry in Wales. We established Net Zero Industry Wales to support industry in the transition to net zero, attract direct investment and create new jobs, all of which will be critical to driving economic growth alongside a just transition.

We’ve increased funding for the Arts of Council Wales by 9.2 per cent in 2025-26 and launched a capital fund via ACW worth £8 million. Creative Wales's budget also increased this financial year, providing critical additional investment directly to priority sectors. This financial year, we saw the best budget settlement since devolution.

As a result of our reforms to date, nearly 90,000 new dental patients have received an appointment for a full course of treatment since the restart of contract reform in April 2022. A further 31,000 appointments for new patients to have urgent treatment have been delivered since April 2023.

This year, we are investing more than £150 million in funded childcare programmes, and I would like to thank you for the £30 million of that which was part of your budget agreement. The childcare offer for Wales provides up to 30 hours per week of combined nursery education and funded childcare for three and four-year-olds, and our Flying Start childcare provision for two-year-olds continues to expand across Wales.