{"id":666370,"date":"2026-06-30T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:43:09","slug":"rhun-ap-iorwerth-takes-first-ministers-questions-in-the-senedd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666370\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhun ap Iorwerth takes First Minister&#8217;s Questions in the Senedd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhun ap Iorwerth in Senedd for FMQspublished at 13:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:26 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth will shortly be back in the Senedd chamber a day after Andy Burnham gave a major speech about devolution in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnham, who is expected to be the next Labour PM in a few weeks time, did not give great detail about what he has planned for Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he talked about devolving &#8220;deeper down&#8221; in Wales &#8211; an indication that he is interested in handing power to councils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ap Iorwerth told the BBC after the speech that the Senedd and the Welsh government needed to be empowered for &#8220;to take Wales forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The speech potentially opened up a fault-line over what kind of further devolution Wales needs, although exactly what Burnham had in mind was not confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It could be a topic that comes up today on the floor of the Senedd for First Minister&#8217;s Questions (FMQs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Reform may want to raise its Nation of Sanctuary debate on Wednesday, and Labour may discuss their planned debate calling for more money for Additional Learning Needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll bring you live updates from the Senedd here, and you can watch the session live by clicking play at the top of the page from 13:00 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhun ap Iorwerth in Senedd for FMQspublished at 13:26 BST 13:26 BST Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}