First Minister’s Questions (FMQs) is the Senedd’s weekly opportunity for Members to question the First Minister on matters within his responsibilities. Most questions are submitted at least three working days in advance and selected through a ballot. Opposition leaders may also ask questions without notice.
Below is a quick guide to the planned questions for this week’s FMQs, with links to relevant information we’ve published, and other useful background where available. A full list of questions can be found here.
You can watch FMQs live at 1:30pm on Senedd TV.
Question: Christiana Emsley MS asks about steps the Welsh Government is taking to ensure public bodies in Wales comply fully and promptly with their legal obligations on freedom of information and access to personal data.
Information: The Information Commissioner’s Office has useful information on the FOI Act and who has to comply with it.
Question: Jayne Bryant MS asks for an update on the Welsh Government’s plans to review the local government funding formula.
Information: The Welsh Government has recently commissioned a review of the local government funding formula.
Question: Marc Jones MS asks about how the Welsh Government is supporting independent and grassroot music venues to thrive
Information: For background information on the challenges faced by grassroots music venues, see our article from 2021 ‘Live music: from crisis to pandemic’.
Question: Elyn Stephens MS asks the First Minister to outline how residents in Afan Ogwr Rhondda will benefit from the national energy strategy.
Information: The Welsh Government recently announced its plans for a new National Energy Strategy and outlined the intended benefits for communities.
Question: Carmelo Colasanto MS asks about steps the Welsh Government is taking to increase the use of high-quality washed recycled aggregates in construction projects across Wales.
Information: The National Infrastructure Commission for Wales looked at the use of industrial and construction materials as part of its Wales Infrastructure Assessment 2026.
Question: Carrie Harper MS asks for an update on the Welsh Government's discussions with the UK Government regarding further devolution to Wales.
Information: We considered options for Wales’s constitutional future in our article What next for devolution?, part of our What’s next? Key Issues for the Seventh Senedd series.
The Welsh Government has since laid out its plans to pursue further devolution in Chapter 6 of its recent Programme for Government.
Question: James Evans MS asks about action the Welsh Government is taking to improve health outcomes in Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd.
Information: The Welsh Government’s NHS Wales Planning Framework 2026–2029 provides direction and guidelines to help health organisations plan.
Question: Niamh Salkeld MS asks about steps the Welsh Government is taking to ensure that a child’s chances in life are not determined by where they grow up.
Information: Our article From cradle to grave: breaking the cycle of inequality and poverty, examines how poverty and structural inequality shape children’s education, health and later-life outcomes.
Question: Art Wright MS asks the First Minister to make representations to the UK Government supporting the Welsh Guards' campaign seeking the truth over the RFA Sir Galahad incident on 8 June 1982.
Question: Janet Finch-Saunders MS asks about the Welsh Government’s constitutional priorities for Wales.
Information: See our Constitutional matters — Monitoring report: September 2026 for key recent policy developments related to constitutional matters.
Question: Tom Montgomery MS asks about the impact of the Nation of Sanctuary policy on housing availability in north Wales.
Information: Our recent article and briefing, Migration and housing pressures in Wales, discusses the relationship between migration and housing demand, including asylum-seeker and refugee homelessness, among the wider structural causes of Wales’s housing crisis.
Question: Claire Archibald MS asks the First Minister for an update on the national cancer strategy.
Information: The Welsh Government is developing a National Cancer Strategy for Wales which aims to improve cancer outcomes. There is an open call for evidence to inform the strategy, running until 31 October 2026.
Article by Senedd Research, Welsh Parliament