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• £10m to restore biodiversity, create jobs and strengthen community connections with the natural environment.
• New Climate and Nature Plan to deliver net zero by 2040 and substantive nature recovery by 2050.
• Active work underway to secure a multi-annual budget for the Sustainable Farming Scheme.

• New funding for social housing, school buildings and community facilities confirmed today
• Budget brings together full package of investment for the year ahead
• Builds on NHS, childcare and free school meals announcements made last week

Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy, Adam Price, said:

The Welsh Government's First Supplementary Budget 2026-27 will be published later today, setting out targeted allocations of extra revenue and capital to fund the Government's key priorities.

The Welsh Government has announced £15m to start enabling more secondary pupils to receive free school meals.

Welsh language music festival Tafwyl today kick-starts a summer of Welsh Government-funded cultural, sporting and community events taking place across the country.

The new Welsh Government Minister with responsibility for energy met with students from North Wales at a major offshore wind conference in Manchester.

The Welsh Government said:

• £100m to help reduce NHS waiting list and waiting times. £25m for new surgical and diagnostic hubs. £20m for essential maintenance across the NHS estate.
• New figures show waiting list and waiting times went up in April, before the new Welsh Government was in place. Health Minister says plan to achieve lasting reductions.
• Change in the way the NHS works is needed - making sure patients move through the system more smoothly, from their first referral all the way to treatment

The Welsh Government has today announced an extra £145m will be invested in NHS Wales this financial year.

• Leaseholders in Wales set to be protected from unfair remediation costs 

• New system proposed for tribunal-based remediation orders in residential buildings 

• Consultation follows unanimous Senedd passage of the Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026 

The new Welsh Government Minister with responsibility for energy has said Wales is open for business when it comes to offshore wind and its potential to be a catalyst for economic growth and prosperity.