Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 11 January 2017.
I welcome the Cabinet Secretary’s comments. He’s referred, of course, to the pilot in Scotland. There is widespread support, I believe, for this concept now across the political spectrum and, yes, on the left—we recall that it was Milton Friedman who was one of the early advocates of this concept, and Richard Nixon actually staged the first ever pilot scheme. If local government did want to experiment in this area, shouldn’t we take this opportunity to look at how this exceptionally innovative concept can contribute towards the well-being of our people in the future?