Today, 14 June 2025, in a Welsh Conservative Policy Forum speech in Cardiff, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Darren Millar MS is announcing policies to support our veterans, including increased support for Veterans NHS Wales, free bus travel for veterans and a new National Armed Forces Museum.
Additionally, Darren Millar will announce a pledge to deliver £40 million in additional funding for hospices over the duration of the Senedd term, including a pledge to ringfence funding to cover 50% of Wales’ children’s hospices’ running costs (currently Welsh Government funding covers less than 20%).
Announcing the support for veterans, Darren Millar will say:
“I have an ambition for Wales to become the most veteran-friendly nation in the world.
“A Welsh Conservative Government will extend free bus travel to all 115,000 military veterans in Wales, no matter their age. We will invest an additional £3m into Veterans NHS Wales to fund peer mentoring services.
“We will also honour our heroes, including those who are still with us, and those who have gone before, by establishing a National Military Museum for Wales."
On hospice and palliative care sector support, Darren Millar will say:
“It is disgraceful that the hospice movement in Wales has been saddled with huge tax rises without one penny from the Government to help.
“I do not believe we should be making it harder for dying people to get the care they deserve.
"No matter what people's views on the Assisted Dying debate, everyone supports the need to improve access to high quality end of life and palliative care.
“A Welsh Conservative Government will invest an additional £40 million over the term of the next Senedd into the Welsh hospices and palliative care. Ringfencing funding for Wales' children’s hospices to meet 50% of their operating costs and providing the biggest boost in palliative and end of life care in Welsh history.”
