Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:01 pm on 5 October 2016.
I’m grateful to you, Cabinet Secretary, for meeting with me on numerous occasions since your appointment to discuss the specialist critical care centre planned for Cwmbran. However, the fact remains that the business case for the hospital has been in with Welsh Government now for a year, and you are now the fourth Minister charged with making a decision on what is a crucial development, not just for my constituents in Torfaen, but for the whole of Gwent. Indeed, as you know, the development is a fundamental part of the south Wales plan. When I asked you about this in health committee recently, you indicated that you expected to receive advice and to update Members by half term recess, yet yesterday the First Minister said that a decision was expected by the end of this year. My constituents now have been promised a new hospital for more than a decade. When can we expect a final decision on this?