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Ministers have confirmed face coverings will continue to play an important role in helping keep us all safe from coronavirus in Wales.

Education Minister Jeremy Miles has today written to all headteachers and principals in Wales to provide more clarity on how schools and colleges can continue to operate safely when they return in September.

On Monday, 12 July, Economy Minister, Vaughan Gething will visit Boulders Climbing Centre, Cardiff to see how funding from the Welsh Government’s Economic Resilience Fund 3 has helped the business to adapt and develop. 

The Welsh Government has made £2.5 billion available to support businesses across Wales during the pandemic, helping to protect in excess of 160,000 jobs that might otherwise have been lost.

Plans to reduce the national default speed limit in Wales from 30mph to 20mph on residential roads and busy pedestrian streets will form part of the Welsh Government’s legislative priorities for this year, Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters has confirmed.

Breast Test Wales, which usually screens 110,000  women each year is to receive £7.845m of Welsh Government funding to replace imaging equipment, the Minister for Health and Social Services Eluned Morgan has confirmed today (Friday 9^th July).

The compound semiconductor technology sector will be at the heart of the next industrial revolution and is of vital importance to the Welsh economy, Minister for Economy Vaughan Gething has said.

Director Gareth Evans’ exciting new project for Netflix, HAVOC, is set to be filmed in Wales this summer. The action thriller will be one of the biggest films ever to be produced in Wales, with Tom Hardy and Forest Whitaker on board to star.

The Welsh Government has awarded £2 million to further education colleges to provide training for jobs in the green economy.

The UK Government has yet to present an offer to the Welsh Government for a Freeport to be established in Wales, Welsh Ministers will tell a Westminster committee later.

Jeremy Miles today confirmed he is to provide additional support for schools to enable the momentum behind the introduction of our new Curriculum for Wales to continue and to rollout in primary schools and non-maintained nursery settings from September 2022.

Counsel General, Mick Antoniw will today announce the new laws which will help transform Wales into stronger, greener and fairer country.

In the Senedd later today, Minister for Climate Change Julie James will set out an “ambitious three-pronged approach” to address the impact of second home ownership on Wales’ communities.