• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 05 June 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Let us move to Assembly Member Roberts. Gareth Roberts AM: Thank you, Chair and good morning. I was surprised to read in the Mayor’s Health Inequalities Implementation Plan that it completely fails to mention social care, which is a critical enabler in supporting people to live independently, enables health reform and prevents ill health. With long waiting lists and one in seven older people facing care costs of over £100,000, quality care is inaccessible for many. Therefore, (a) do you consider this is an oversight within the report and (b) what impact do you think the...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 05 June 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Thank you for that. That was useful background information to the questions that we have raised. In terms of that, we are now going to go to the political groups. We are going to take it in turns. The order of the first four questions will be Assembly Member Hirani, then Assembly Member Roberts, and then Assembly Member Best, and then finally Assembly Member Russell. Let us take the first question from Assembly Member Hirani. Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. I am going to turn to Vicky for an answer on this one. The new...

• Reference: 2025/3225
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 05 June 2025

We can now move on to our main business of this morning, our question and answer session. Joining us here in the Chamber, we have Dr Tom Coffey OBE, Senior Health Policy Adviser to the Mayor, who is going to be staying with us a little bit longer, depending on any issues that may arise, because I thought we might just have Tom for about an hour. Sadly, we have received apologies from Professor Kevin Fenton, who is the Statutory Health Adviser to the Mayor. Kevin has had a bereavement. On behalf of the Assembly, we would wish to pass...