<p>Local Authority Capital Expenditure </p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 19 October 2016.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:51, 19 October 2016

I thank Julie Morgan for that question. I think Cardiff’s record in using capital spending on environmental purposes of this sort is admirable. The latest intention to use capital spending for street lighting in the city is part of a wider pattern in which they’ve used money, made available through the Welsh Government in part, for street lighting energy efficiency, council building energy efficiency and school lighting programmes—in Rhydypenau Primary School in her own constituency, for example. It is a very good example of the way in which local authorities are using the assistance available to decarbonise their spending, providing a better future, not only for their own citizens but for the whole of our nation.