A proposal to create a special purpose Senedd committee to investigate failings in Wales’ Covid response has been rejected. The Welsh Tories and Plaid Cymru co-submitted a motion to establish the committee which was debated in the Senedd on Wednesday, November 30, and a vote was held.
The vote was tied, with 27 votes in favour and 27 against, so the Llywydd was required to cast the deciding vote. She voted against the motion and so it was not agreed.
In the debate First Minister Mark Drakeford said he believed the best way that questions bereaved families had should be answered and scrutinised was through the ongoing UK Covid-19 inquiry. "That is the body that will be able to scrutinise those decisions made by the Welsh Government and other Welsh bodies, which drew on the relationships between decisions made in Wales and Whitehall," he said.
