Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services — Postponed from 8 November – in the Senedd at 2:44 pm on 15 November 2017.
I must admit I was sincerely hoping for an answer as to what exactly you are going to cut in terms of research—not necessarily the amount, but which forms of research are now going to lose out. What exactly are we going to not see being done? Which partners are possibly going to lose their funding as a result of our decision? And just one example would have been fine for that.
I'll just move on now to the proposals to move health services in the county borough of Bridgend from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Local Health Board to Cwm Taf Local Health Board. That would naturally affect social care provision. The Western Bay health and social care programme is currently made up of ABMU, as you know, and the three local authorities in the same footprint.
Cwm Taf already provides some mental health cover for ABMU patients, but I think it's pretty unlikely that the whole of Cwm Taf is going to end up in the Western Bay programme. So, what preliminary thoughts have been aired about the relationship between Cwm Taf and the Western Bay partnership, particularly on the imminent question of pooled budgets, which of course have to be decided by April next year?