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I note your emphasis on literacy among teachers. My colleague and I were comparing notes—I should not laugh—on teachers we had who had literacy problems.
However, I understand that much of the delay in removing breakdowns is due to the fact that your service vehicles get stuck in traffic and have difficulty reaching breakdowns to deal with them. Is it fair to compare how long it takes to remove simple breakdowns or accidents—not HGVs that have gone over—on the current bridge with what will happen on a bridge...
In raising this issue, the Lib Dems and the Labour Party have shown strange priorities.The other element of hypocrisy is in comparing what we have here to Westminster or even Wales.
We would have to put in place many of those measures in any event and I return to the fact that the effect of abolishing the tolls will be comparatively modest in drawing the timeline closer.
Currently, zero is invested to close the attainment gap for thousands of pupils. That should be compared with what is invested for their peers in other areas.
By and large, if you take out inflation, our real costs have not moved ahead significantly over the past number of years, except when new requirements have been placed on us.I will give you two examples.
The standing orders allow that, but they present subject debates as an exception to the rule. The Government seems to prefer them to debates with motions.