Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. I think the incident last week has raised many questions, most importantly how we are going to protect our patients in the NHS. As you say, the reports have suggested that 47 trusts in England have been affected, and 13 in Scotland, because they’d failed to apply recent security updates that might have protected them. Now, I think it’s worth noting that the impact is not just one of disruption and inconvenience; this actually, potentially, has life-changing and life-threatening consequences. If you think about the impact on individuals waiting for scans for cancer treatments, I think the impact could be incalculable and such an attack by cyber terrorists is morally, I think, indefensible.

Now, the joined-up nature of the NHS in Wales and the £11 million computer investment meant that there were fewer vulnerabilities in Wales. I think of course we’ve got to point out that there’s no room for complacency, but I think it would be remiss of us not to acknowledge the efforts of the NHS Wales Informatics Service and the IT teams across the whole of the NHS in Wales for protecting us from this latest attack. That’s not to say that we should be complacent—it may happen again—but they protected us on this occasion and I think we should salute them.