<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:37 pm on 13 July 2016.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:37, 13 July 2016

I thank the Member for the question. We have regular conversations with our stakeholders in the trade unions about their position on a range of different parts of terms and conditions, including the negotiations we have had in the past with them about pay. And so we need to make sure the conversation is rounded between what the representatives of the workforce actually want to achieve and what we’re able to do as a Government as well.

In terms of junior doctors, given the comment that you made about imposition by the UK Government, I want to make it really clear again: this Government will not be imposing a junior doctors contract. Any changes that are made to junior doctors contracts’ terms and conditions will be done by agreement, on a basis of respect, and I’m looking forward to meeting the British Medical Association, following my invitation to meet with them here in Wales, to discuss the position here in Wales and how we take that forward on that shared and respectful basis.