Thank you. As a former member of Gwynedd Council’s cabinet with responsibility for finance, I’m very pleased to see that you have now started to amend the formula and that the rural element of social services expenditure can vary and be an additional pressure, of course, on councils covering rural areas.

There are many other ways of amending the formula, and several groups, including the Welsh Local Government Association and the Federation of Small Businesses, have been calling on the Government to amend the formula, referring in particular to the use of old data, derived from previous censuses. What steps has the Welsh Government taken for next year’s settlement to ensure that the data used is more current and reflects today’s conditions better? Do you think that it is now time to revise the formula in that manner too?