Grange University Hospital

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 22 September 2020.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 2:09, 22 September 2020

Thank you, First Minister, for that answer. I'm sure you'd like to join me in thanking the construction workers who've helped keep this important project on time and on budget over the last few months and years, particularly at a time when the sector has been so badly affected by the pandemic, with construction microbusinesses making up around a third of applications to the economic resilience fund. You've just touched on the hospitals' role in the COVID-19 pandemic. What discussions—or could you say a little bit more about any discussions that your officials have had with the local health board about a strategy of using the hospital for COVID cases, and therefore removing the risk of infection from the other general hospitals in the Gwent area? And also is the Welsh Government looking at transport links to the new hospital? I have raised this before, as there are concerns about connectivity. The A4042 through Monmouthshire badly needs upgrading and there's also certainly a need for better public transport links for patients and for families to and from the new hospital.