1. Statement by the First Minister: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:21 pm on 5 August 2020.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 2:21, 5 August 2020

Thank you for your statement, First Minister. A couple of questions from me. Firstly—and this was covered in an answer that you gave to a question, partially covered in an answer you gave to a question, a few minutes ago—with regard to the health service and operations, a number of constituents have contacted me who have had operations deferred due to the COVID-19 situation. I appreciate what you're saying about how it's difficult for things to return to normal in the near future and the capacity isn't there, but I need to give some kind of guidance to my constituents. So, I wonder if the Welsh Government can be quite clear, can provide clarification on, when operations that have been deferred can resume and when we can expect some sort of normality.

Secondly, sport. Covered riding arenas have been allowed to reopen both in Scotland and England—I think in Scotland on 29 June and England on 4 July. I don't believe that this is the case yet in Wales. So, could you provide some clarification, or could you raise this with the Minister responsible, so that we know when we can expect covered arenas to at least partially reopen in Wales?

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