Cabinet Secretary, we all understand that the availability of beds is critical, particularly with winter pressures, and Andrew R.T. Davies has highlighted that very much. In May, my local health board undertook a consultation on what it called service changes, but what, in fact, were bed closures. They recommended that 79 temporarily closed beds would be permanently closed and another 46 would be closed. As a result of my objections, and others objecting to some of that, we had a watered-down version, but I still worry very much that that watered-down version will result in that total of 125 beds being closed.

I ask the question: why aren't you looking at relocating those beds to other services, because there is demand elsewhere? The reason they're closing them is that they say they've improved services—they're getting people through the hospital faster, therefore the beds become less used as people move on. But, there are many other areas in hospitals where beds are being waited for. Will you now go to health boards and say to them, before they close any further beds, they must look at the service provision across their services to see if they can relocate those beds to other clinical needs to ensure that people don't have to wait for a hip operation or other purposes because there isn't a bed for them?