Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 6 October 2020.
Well, Llywydd, I think that is a very sensible approach, and it's the one that we will adopt as a Welsh Government. If it is possible to concentrate restrictions in the areas where the problem is greatest, that is exactly what we would aim to do. Sometimes the geography of an area makes that more difficult. Sometimes there is simply spread at a community level across a local authority area that precludes us from being able to use those hyperlocal methods. But, as Andrew R.T. Davies has said, we were able to do so in Llanelli, and when I answered Hefin David and said that I hoped we would be able to take the first steps out of local restrictions when it is safe to do so, then one of the ways that that might be possible would be to see whether, within a county borough area, the problem has become concentrated in one part of a council locality and to redraw the restriction boundaries within an area. If that is borne out by the data and can be delivered on the ground, then I think that we have absolutely not closed our minds to pursuing the lifting of some restrictions in that way.