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Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 16 July 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:27, 16 July 2019

Well, Llywydd, Members here will know that the coroner put a series of questions to me about the arrangements that surround reshuffles within the Cabinet here in the Welsh Government, and I made a statement to the coroner setting out the arrangements that I would intend to put in place, and that statement was read into the record of the coroner's hearings and is available to all Members. Members will also know that the coroner took a decision to issue a prevention of future deaths report in which he looks for some further details of how reshuffles are conducted in a Government and the support services that are made available to those caught up in them. The Government has 56 days, as is the case with any prevention of future deaths report, to respond to the questions that the coroner has posed. I will take those questions very seriously. I will respond in full to them, and I will take the time that is necessary and is allowed for in the prevention of future deaths context to come to those conclusions. When I make my further submission to the coroner, I will make sure that that submission is published and available to all Members.