2., 3. & 4. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020, The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 and The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:57 pm on 26 August 2020.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 2:57, 26 August 2020

Minister, thank you for your update on the regulations and we, as Welsh Conservatives, will be supporting the regulations as tabled by the Government this afternoon. I'd just like to seek two points of clarity from you if possible, please. 

In your update you highlighted the four improvement notices that have been served under the regulations. Are you in a position to tell us what the improvement notices were required to be served on? Were they hospitality venues, were they workplaces, and were there specific geographical locations where there was a greater inability to apply the law? So, was this something that was affecting north Wales businesses or hospitality or was it south Wales, or was it just a general issue across Wales?

And, secondly, the First Minister did touch on it in his statement today, and as we're looking at the regulations, I'm surprised that you haven't touched on face coverings in educational settings here today. We are being told that there's going to be an announcement later today, but this is a formal sitting of the Welsh Parliament, I would have thought that, as Members, we would have been extended the courtesy of hearing exactly what the Welsh Government's thinking on this was, and this would be an ideal opportunity for you to do that. As the First Minister alluded to the fact that it might well be in a localised setting that these requirements would be required in educational schools, universities and further education colleges for face masks to be worn, can you enlighten us here today as to your thinking around these measures, and when might we hear more definitive news from the Welsh Government as to how this might be progressed?