Chester Football Club

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:33 pm on 11 January 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:33, 11 January 2022

(Translated)

I heard Llyr Huws Gruffydd's comments on the situation with Chester Football Club, and I agree with what he said. It is important that we find a pragmatic solution that is clear on the law in Wales—and the law is the same for all clubs in Wales—but also recognising the fact that there are important issues for Chester Football Club and trying to help them with those issues too. 

In terms of the broader point, every week we take advice from the chief medical officer, and from others, and when they tell us as a Government that it is safe to lift restrictions, then of course we’re eager to do that. We are not in that situation yet. I do hope, over coming weeks, that that will change, and that the omicron wave will reduce. And when that happens, of course, we're eager to review the number of people who can meet in the open air and do things such as supporting those clubs with things that are so important to them. But the time to do that in Wales is when the medical advice, and the other advice that we receive, tells us that it is safe for us to do it.