The twelfth FMQs of 2022 comes to a close.

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The Senedd will once again be lit tonight in the blue and yellow colours of Ukraine’s flag as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine and its people.

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On access to NHS dentistry services, the first minister says patients could be asked to provide their respiratory history to help to return to pre-pandemic services.

He explains, "the proposal is that every patient going to a dentist would provide a respiratory history in advance of their appointment. For people who have histories of respiratory illnesses, some of the Covid protections that are currently in place will continue to be necessary, but for people who have non-respiratory histories, some of the restrictions on the way that dentists operate because of Covid are capable of being lifted, and lifted safely."

On care for children and young people in specialist residential homes, the first minister acknowledges that "too many children in Wales are looked after outside Wales; too many children in Wales are looked after outside the county that has parental responsibility for them."

There are two further questions on the shared prosperity fund, by Labour and Plaid Cymru MSs.

The first minister reiterates the points of conflict over the sum of money Wales will receive and over how the money will be distributed.

"It remains the Welsh Government's position that we cannot endorse an approach that removes both funding and decision making from Wales."

Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price asks why "Wales has consistently had poor cancer survival rates compared to other similarly developed countries?"

The first minister replies, "there are many reasons why survival rates are not where we would wish them to be in Wales. That includes our industrial heritage and its impact on the health of people, it includes, particularly, late presentation.

"It is very difficult to obtain the survival rates that we would like to see when so many cancers in Wales only become apparent when they have already developed to a point where the techniques of intervention that would be available at early stages have already been passed by."

Mr Price says cancer charities are calling for "a new comprehensive cancer strategy for Wales".

Andrew RT Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, calls for the food production element of the delayed agriculture bill to be enhanced.

The first minister says "there is no crisis in food supply in Wales" although "there are pressures in global food markets because of the war in Ukraine".

"There is a crisis," says Mr Davies, listing increased costs facing producers.

"Fertiliser, which you need to grow crops, is now £900 to £1,000 a tonne; it is normally about £300 to £350 a tonne. Wheat—the key component of making bread—is north of £300 a tonne; it normally trades at £140 to £150 a tonne. Beef is at £440 a kilo; it normally trades at £340 to £360. I could go on."

During the final full week of campaigning for the local elections, MSs exchange views on the amount of money held by local councils in reserve.

Voting will take place in each of Wales' 22 local authorities on Thursday, 5 May with a total of 1,234 councillors to be elected.

The first minister says, "there are a series of reasons why councils hold cash in reserve. A great deal of that money will be earmarked reserves. In other words, it's not money available to the council just to spend; it's there because they have a twenty-first century school's programme, for example, and that money is allocated already to make sure that that programme can go ahead."

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The Llywydd (presiding officer) Elin Jones conducts a ballot to determine the names of members who may table questions to the first minister and Welsh ministers. Each member may enter their name into a ballot.

Vikki Howells, Labour MS for the Cynon Valley, asks what assessment has the Welsh Government made of the shared prosperity fund's potential to address economic inequality in Wales.

UK ministers have said they will "slash bureaucracy and give control to locally elected leaders" in Wales in deciding how to spend nearly £600m over the next three years, after announcing details of the new fund to replace EU aid Wales used to receive.

The EU fund averaged £375m a year.

First Minister Mark Drakeford says Wales will be £1bn worse off in this package - he explains that's the additional sum Wales would have received in EU aid by 2025.

He says "the fund fails to address economic inequality because of a series of fundamental flaws. It breaks a key Conservative promise that Wales would not be a penny worse off. It allocates its reduced amounts through a formula which deliberately under-represents concentrated inequality and it removes decision making from Wales to Whitehall."

The UK government says it has met its manifesto commitment to match the previous EU funding by topping up residual funding from the old scheme until it fully replaces it in 2025.

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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the twelfth session of First Minister's Questions in 2022.

The meeting is held in a hybrid format, with some members in the Siambr (Senedd chamber) and others joining by video-conference.