Cancer charities joined forces to call for a longer-term national strategy to improve services after 9,000 people waited too long for treatment last year.

The Conservatives quit a Senedd committee charged with addressing gaps in the UK Covid-19 inquiry after Labour blocked calls for witnesses to swear an oath.

A commissioner warned current Senedd offices are “crumbling” and becoming “no longer fit for purpose” amid a multi-million-pound search for new office space.

Senedd members pressed Wales’ first minister about the Labour UK Government’s plans to slash spending on welfare by £4.8bn a year by the end of the decade.

A Labour Senedd member criticised the Welsh Government’s response to an inquiry on the impact of cuts to culture and sport over the past decade.