2. Urgent Question: Local Health Board Overspends

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:32 pm on 28 March 2017.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 2:32, 28 March 2017

I’ve listened very carefully to your answers to these questions about the problems being faced by health boards, and I have to say I find it a little rich that you’re sitting there criticising the health boards, telling them that they need to get their act together in terms of the finances, when you’re responsible for one of those health boards that is in special measures. One of the reasons that the Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board was put into special measures was because of poor financial management. You’ve been there nearly two years and still that financial management is looking like the health board is going to be overdrawn by £30 million at the end of this year. Do you accept your responsibility for the failure to balance the books in that particular health board, and what are you doing about it given that it’s in special measures?