I thought Lynne Neagle was going to be answering the questions there for a moment.

1. Will the Minister make a statement on budget allocations to the health and social services portfolio? OAQ53510

Thank you. The 2019 budget, approved by the Assembly in January, provides £7.4 billion for core NHS funding, representing record levels of investment in the NHS in Wales.

Thank you, Minister. In yesterday's statement, I asked you about the way that the future generations legislation was being incorporated into the budget. Another area of concern that's been under some criticism from the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales is that of moving the focus of healthcare towards the preventative agenda, which hasn't always happened in the past, and which we clearly need to do in the future, with restricted resources. So, can you tell us, with the supplementary budget and, indeed, last year's main budget, what discussions have been held in terms of extending that preventative agenda so that we can put the health service in Wales on a more sustainable footing in the future, because we know costs are only going to increase?

Thank you very much for raising this, and for your interest in the way in which we are making the future generations Act come to life through the budgetary decisions that we make here in Wales. I've had a recent meeting with the future generations commissioner to explore how we can better incorporate the Act within our budgetary decision making at the earliest possible opportunity. And it's certainly one of the areas that I will be talking to my ministerial colleagues about as we enter our next budget round. But, looking back, we'll be holding a round-table with the commissioner and a number of senior finance officials very shortly to have a lessons-learned kind of exercise to explore what we did well this time in terms of considering the Act, but also how we can improve things in future.

We worked very closely with the future generations commissioner to come to an agreed definition of preventative spend, which has very much guided some of our thinking. So, some of the additional funding announced for health and social services in 2019-20, for example, comes very much within that preventative agenda. The £192 million to take forward the implementation of our long-term plan for health and social care, 'A Healthier Wales', is part of that, because that piece of work really does try to refocus our efforts, really, at the preventative end. Because we know, in the long term, clearly, it's better for people, but obviously, in terms of our budgets, it doesn't store up problems for the future.