I want to raise the issue of the sustainability of health services in rural areas with you, if I may. There is a surgery in my region, in Corwen, which serves 4,000 people, in the area that borders Gwynedd, Conwy and Denbighshire. It’s a very rural area, where they’ve been receiving a rural grant from the local health board to ensure that the service is sustainable there. They’ve also been doing additional work such as blood tests, and one of the partners is a specialist in cardiac issues. But the health board is now withdrawing that grant, and saying that they, as a surgery, need to diversify. That puts them in an impossible situation, to all intents and purposes. Bear in mind that this happens as well in the context of losing community hospitals, which have been providing some of these important services in rural areas, from Llangollen in the east to Blaenau Ffestiniog in the west.

So, may I ask you to ensure that the health Secretary brings a statement to this Senedd as to what support the Welsh Government is providing to ensure that health services, such as those in Corwen, can continue to be sustainable in rural areas? Is the Government content that the health board is withdrawing this specific grant, and undermining the sustainability of rural surgeries in north Wales, such as the one in Corwen? What exactly is the long-term vision of the Welsh Government, in terms of securing the sustainability of health services in our rural areas?