Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 29 June 2016.
Diolch, Lywydd. I actually think that the Cabinet Secretary has probably just answered my question, but I’ll ask it anyway. I think, Cabinet Secretary, we can all be rightly proud here in Wales that we have not seen wide-scale privatisation of local authority services as we’ve witnessed in England. That’s built on the premise that our key public services are at their best and most efficient when retained in-house and provided by directly employed workforce. So, will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the stance of the previous administration, which reinforced the view that not only should privatisation of key public services be discouraged but also that other outsourcing options, including mutuals and co-operatives, should only ever be considered when this is the only alternative to privatisation?