<p>Local Authority Capital Expenditure </p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:49 pm on 19 October 2016.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:49, 19 October 2016

I thank the Member for her supplementary question. I think that when accounting adjustments are taken into account, capital expenditure on social services actually fell by 1.1 per cent last year, and that was in line with the estimates that local authorities had provided and takes no account of the £10 million additional capital provided through the intermediate care fund, which is largely spent on social services matters.

In the draft budget, published yesterday, in which, for the first time for a number of years, we are able to provide local authorities in Wales with a budget that has no cash cuts within it, I have earmarked £25 million for social services purposes, in response to the call from local authorities themselves, but in clear recognition of the pressures that that service faces.