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Written Assembly Questions tabled on 12 October 2017 for answer on 19 October 2017

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Written Questions must be tabled at least five working days before they are to be answered. In practice, Ministers aim to answer within seven/eight days but are not bound to do so. Answers are published in the language in which they are provided, with a translation into English of responses provided in Welsh.

To ask the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport

Janet Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy): Does the Cabinet Secretary have any plans to increase provision for elective surgery in north Wales, with a view to reducing waiting list times? (WAQ74429)

Answer received on 24 October 2017

Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport (Vaughan Gething): Betsi Cadwaladr UHB will be receiving its share of the £50 million announced in August 2017. For this, it plans to reduce the numbers waiting over 36 weeks by the end of March 2018 using a mixture of insourcing and additional internal activity and outsourcing to other providers. I expect to see material improvements in the numbers waiting over this time.