Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 19 October 2016.
Diolch, Lywydd. Cabinet Secretary, as Sian Gwenllian said, your budget agreement, announced yesterday, features £25 million additional funding for local authorities, but this does come in the wake of the £761 million real-terms reduction in aggregate external finance, as has been identified by the Wales Audit Office. That’s between 2011 and 2016-17. How are you going to ensure that this extra money that is going to be received by local authorities this year is distributed evenly and fairly across those authorities?