9. Plaid Cymru debate: Head and neck cancers

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:04 pm on 27 June 2018.

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Photo of Rhun ap Iorwerth Rhun ap Iorwerth Plaid Cymru 6:04, 27 June 2018

Very, very briefly, thanks to everybody, including the Cabinet Secretary, for your support for pressing ahead with this at some point. What I can't understand, quite, is why not crack on with it now?

To answer your question, Angela Burns, about the cost, we put in some freedom of information requests on costings. The £0.5 million was based on 5 per cent of the cost of the immunisation programme for girls in England. We come to the £0.5 million, and we have no reason to believe it would cost differently for boys, and that figure has been corroborated through other means as well. So, if—[Interruption.] Yes—please.