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It's quite easy, said the First Minister, for a government to turn itself into a "strategy factory".

"You know," told last month's Welsh Labour conference, "creating an endless stream of strategies without there being any product at the end of it.

"I want this to change and change radically".

It turns out it's not as easy as he thought. A promised manufacturing strategy will not now be published ahead of the Welsh elections in May.

Not that the Welsh assembly government is short of a strategy or two. It even appears to have a strategy for strategies. There is a dedicated strategieson its website.

There is a violence against women strategy, a strategy for woodlands, another for fuel poverty. Then there's the major events strategy.

"The gypsy traveller team within the Welsh assembly government have developed a draft gypsy traveller strategy".

There is a Welsh medium education strategy, a climate change strategy and "Better Homes for Wales - our strategy for Welsh housing."

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There are strategies for the built environment and for youth services. There's an environment strategy and a strategy for developing school-based counselling services for children and young people.

We are three years into the 10-year substance abuse strategy; there's a biomass strategy for Wales, a strategy for old people, a community nursing strategy and a
location strategy.

The "strategy factory" has clearly been working overtime: do let me know if I've missed any out.

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