The most recent figures from the assembly and the Department of Education show Welsh local education authorities withhold more money from schools than authorities in England.

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Mr Morgan said that since the jobs at Anglesey Aluminium can only therefore be saved by having a specific and reliable energy source, the assembly government, the company, and the Department of Trade and Industry are looking at the option of building a small to medium sized power plant.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | North West Wales | Power station 'deal to save jobs'

Stormont Assembly members also questioned Department of Agriculture and environmental health officials.

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The Welsh Assembly has also called on the Department for Work and Pensions to allow them to buy a number of the factories in order to secure their future.

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She also answered questions on biomass plants, initiatives to tackle the risk of flooding in Wales and the key priorities of the department for the remainder of this assembly term.

BBC: Sustainability questions

Assembly members have agreed to work with Westminster's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to give people in Northern Ireland the choice of making the direct payment of housing benefit to social and private landlords, on 24 September 2012 .

BBC: Housing benefit

Democratic Unionist Party assembly member for Newry and Armagh Paul Berry has written to Ms de Brun's department to support the fire officers' concerns.

BBC: Fire union's anger over award

The assembly's agriculture committee is receiving an emergency briefing by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development officials on Tuesday afternoon.

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Broadcasting traditionally falls under the umbrella of the Home Department but because the streaming would specifically involve States meetings, it was agreed the States Assembly and Constitution Committee should take it on.

BBC: Guernsey States streaming a step closer