Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 11 January 2017.
It’s an important point that the Member makes. As we move to establish the Welsh Revenue Authority, and particularly when we have a chair in place, and a board of individuals to support that chair, one of the important things that I will look to them do is to be the public face of that new authority. It is bound to be an organisation that is of particular interest to those people whose working lives are spent in this area, and the Member is absolutely right to say that the bulk of the discussions that have been held so far have concentrated on that world, and in drawing on their help—both in the way that we have framed the two tax Bills that are currently before the Assembly, but also, for example, in making sure that we have the best possible field of candidates for those very important posts. But as we move on and as we move towards the date when the Welsh Revenue Authority will go live, then it will have a relationship with a far wider population of the public in Wales, and there will be a job of work to do to make sure that communication with that wider public also happens. There will be a communication plan developed alongside the Welsh Revenue Authority. I undertook yesterday in response to the Finance Committee to report termly to the Assembly on how all this is developing, and that will be part of the report that I will make.