Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 7 December 2016.
Siân Gwenllian
Plaid Cymru
2:58,
7 December 2016
A medical school for Bangor has been included as a high-level project in the north Wales growth bid, which has been agreed and supported by each of the six local authorities in north Wales. A letter that I received from you recently notes that you are expecting a briefing from officials on this issue. I note that the words ‘business case’ have disappeared from the letter, but that’s what was pledged before the summer—a business case rather than a briefing. Can you give me an assurance, as well as people in the north-west of Wales, that the case to develop a medical school in Bangor is being given priority by you and your Government?
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