Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 20 September 2016.
First Minister, will you join me in congratulating the Friends of Kinmel Bay Community Library, who established a charity in order to take over the operation of the library in Kinmel Bay after it was threatened with closure by Conwy County Borough Council? Do you accept that there is a challenge for rural local authorities in particular being able to provide sufficient access to library services simply because of the additional cost that rural local authorities face in delivering public services? What action are you taking as a Government to look at the funding formula to make sure that it’s sufficient to resource local authorities like Conwy and Denbighshire, to ensure that they can continue to provide library services in other communities that might be affected in the same way that Kinmel Bay has been, in the future?