Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 21 June 2016.
You introduced CAMHS into the line of questioning—I’d like to move into that area, if I may. Mental health services for young people in particular have seen a massive increase in the referrals to CAMHS—120-odd per cent since 2010. The waiting times in this particular area are horrendous, to say the least, with one in eight people who are referred waiting in excess of 40 weeks, when the Welsh Government’s own referral time target is 14 weeks. What action will the Welsh Government, the new Welsh Government, be doing to actually tackle these chronic waiting times, which, as I’ve said, have seen one in eight young people waiting in excess of 40 weeks for the help and support that they require, when in the last financial year the Welsh Government did cut the money to CAMHS by nearly 7 per cent?