Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:40 pm on 15 February 2017.
Those are very interesting points that the Member raises and they were reflected to an extent in the Greg Clark report on growth and competitiveness across the Cardiff capital region. In the end, Llywydd, it will be for the cabinet, which will now be formed as a result of a vote that’s been held in the 10 local authorities, to make decisions that benefit the region as a whole. They will bring forward projects for which there will now be a proper process to interrogate and agree those projects. The point I made in relation to the question from Hefin David was that we will bring forward proposals through the White Paper to legislate so that it is clear to people who are around that table that they must focus on the needs of the whole of the region when they are making those decisions, albeit that each one of them will represent one of the 10 component parts of that city region board.