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Binning Bad News: Health Minister Edwina Hart 'withheld NHS report'
Published on 2010-09-21 15:37:00
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams produced the document in the Senedd Health Minister Edwina Hart has been accused of withholding a consultants' report which criticises the Welsh Assembly government's NHS leadership.Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams made the accusation in the Senedd, producing a McKinsey document.Mrs Hart had previously said there was "no formal document for scrutiny".The assembly government said Mrs Hart misled no-one, there was no McKinsey report, and t
Christmas arrives early with Gimmick Government
Published on 2010-03-24 10:31:00
Hundreds of 10 and 11-year-olds in some of Wales’ poorest areas will be first to benefit from a new scheme to provide free laptop computers to children, it was announced today.The pilot project, which will cost £700,000 over the next two years, will initially see 1,200 school children in Communities First and Flying Start areas receiving the machines.Conservatives have denounced the Assembly Government move as an expensive gimmick.The scheme was a key pledge in the Labour-Plaid Cymru coalitio
'Streamlining' reorganisation = reward for Assembly Government's Civil Servants
Published on 2010-03-24 09:37:00
Serious questions are being asked today about a shake-up of senior civil servants within the Assembly Government that has led to more of them earning above £120,000.Seven “director general” posts were created last year in a streamlining move aimed at cutting overall costs. But critics are unconvinced that the new arrangements are appropriate.Concerns have also been raised about “back-up” appointments that risk eating into savings made as a result of the reorganisation.It is understood,
