Llywydd, more people work in the Welsh NHS today than at any other time in its history, and that includes more doctors, more nurses, more physiotherapists, more occupational therapists, and all the team that go into providing services for the Welsh public. That is the result of continued investment by successive Welsh Governments in our NHS and in its workforce. There are record numbers of people not simply employed, but in training as well—more nurses in training, more professionals allied to medicine in training—than in any time in our history.

We've published those plans every single year and they demonstrate the result of that investment. There have been more beds available during the COVID crisis as a result of the field hospital capacity and the other additional capacity that we have made available through considerable extra investment, and enormous efforts by people who work in the service to make that physical capacity available and then to find people to provide the services alongside it. When the pandemic is over and we are able to return to the levels of activity that we were able to see in the Welsh NHS prior to its onset, then of course we will need to make sure that we have the physical capacity to go alongside the additional members of staff that we will have recruited in the meantime.