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Jeff Cuthbert, Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty

A Welsh Government-led programme to test wastewater for COVID-19 has been expanded to cover all Welsh health boards and local authorities across 48 sites.

Lesley Griffiths, the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, visited the site of the works in Rhyl today (Wednesday, August 19).

Businesses in Wales will have to carry out a specific coronavirus risk assessment under new Welsh Government legislation.

A vote has just passed in the Senedd introducing new regulations for pet sales. The regulations will also ban third party sales of puppies and kittens.

The Welsh Government is making £1.5 million available to returning officers to enable polling stations for the Senedd election to be made covid-secure.

Vaughan Gething MS, Economy Minister

Finance and Local Government Minister Rebecca Evans is calling on the UK Government to revise the process for agreeing devolved tax powers, following delays in getting powers for a vacant land tax.

Application form for funding to provide and develop youth work opportunities for young people aged 11 to 25.

Julie Morgan MS, Deputy Minister for Social Services

Jeremy Miles, Minister for Education and Welsh Language

Wales’ Finance Minister Rebecca Evans has met the UK Government’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, with the devastating job losses threatened at Tata and continued budgetary concerns at the fore of discussions.

Community groups can now apply for grants of up to £300,000 to improve local buildings, secure valued facilities and support spaces where people can come together.

Trial pilots across Wales have successfully registered over 16,000 new voters automatically, an independent evaluation has found, paving the way for a more accessible democracy.

Care workers across Wales will be able to develop their skills and gain qualifications through a new National Social Care Academy.

Dawn Bowden MS, Minister for Children and Social Care

Health Minister, Eluned Morgan has welcomed progress on new eye care facilities which will increase the number of patients receiving eye care treatment and cut waiting times.

The Welsh Government has made up to £9 million available to support town centres recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

“We want to improve equality and inclusion for all LGBTQ+ people, so as a community we feel safe to be ourselves free from fear, discrimination and hate.”

Removing the stigma of talking about periods will help encourage more women and girls to participate in sport, Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip Jane Hutt has vowed.