Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 1:54 pm on 2 December 2020.
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Minister, today is a good news day, thankfully, after many dark days, to say the least. I commend everyone involved in the development of the vaccine, and vaccines plural, because hopefully there'll be others coming along in the not-too-distant future. Thank you for your statement this morning as well; it was a very detailed and thoughtful statement, I thought, which did add a lot of information that was beneficial, as elected Members, that we could go back to our constituents with. A point I'd like to raise with you is the terminology that you've used and, regrettably, the press are already starting to use, when you talk about this credit card-style card that will be given to you when you have your first appointment that will contain details of the type of vaccine that you've had and your recall date to have the second jab. As I say, I do note that already the press are starting to call that an ID card. Can you confirm that that is not an ID card, and it doesn't have any legal status, and it is merely an information card that will assist the person who is presented for vaccination to obviously have the follow-up, and once the follow-up vaccine has been administered, it will have no further status in law?