Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:34 pm on 19 October 2016.
I thank you for that answer, Cabinet Secretary. I don’t know whether you did watch last night’s BBC Two programme ‘Who’s Spending Britain’s Billions?’, but it did actually outline a collaboration that maybe people don’t think is worthy of spending millions of pounds on—when the Plaid Cymru leader of Ceredigion was asked specifically about a contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers, spending that large amount of money, informing them how to close down facilities in order to save money, and also how to privatise local services. So, as you foster greater local authority collaboration, Cabinet Secretary, and also financial collaboration, would you please examine closely the use of these so-called risk and reward contracts? Because I also was outside yesterday with Unison representatives who are actually, quite rightly, in my opinion, aggrieved at that use of money.