Writing to the First Minister
When and how to contact the First Minister.
If you wish to raise issues from multiple portfolios, please only write to one minister. You will receive a single response from the Welsh Government covering all of your concerns. You may write the to the First Minster if you issues cover multiple portfolios and you will receive a single response from the Welsh Government from an appropriate official or lead Minister covering all of your concerns.
You will not receive additional or faster responses by contacting more than one minister. Your correspondence will be combined and answered once on behalf of the Welsh Government. Accordingly, correspondence to the First Minister may be passed to the appropriate portfolio Minister or officials.
If you want to send supporting documents with your email, please save them as PDF files or Microsoft Office compatible files. We are unable to access any file sharing services such as OneDrive or Google Docs.
We will respond via email wherever possible (even if you have written to us in hard copy). You may wish to send us your correspondence by email only.
Please also check your junk mail or spam filters for replies – you may wish to add the @gov.wales domain to your safe domain lists to ensure that you receive our email responses.
We aim to reply within 17 working days. However due to the increased volume of correspondence currently being received, we may take longer.
We are unable to answer correspondence on non-devolved matters. These remain the responsibility of the UK government. Find contact details for the relevant departments.
Get help online
It may be faster to get help online, try:
- Reform of the school year
- 20mph speed limits
- Council Tax reform
- COVID-19 vaccination
- COVID-19 boosters
- COVID-19 vaccinations for children
- NHS COVID Pass
- all COVID-19 information
If you wish to complain about an NHS service, you should contact the organisation who provides that service.
- contact your local health board
- complain about ambulance waiting times
- complain about NHS or GP services
Post
You can write to the minister at the address below. Do not send hard copies of emails.
Letters received through the post will be answered, but may take longer for us to respond to. We will answer by email where possible, so you may wish to email us instead.
First Minister of Wales
Welsh Government
5th Floor
Tŷ Hywel
Cardiff Bay
CF99 1NA
Correspondence.Vaughan.Gething@gov.wales
If you do not use the full email address we will not receive your email. You must use the email address exactly as it is written on this page.
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