Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 15 February 2017.
Can I welcome the move to a more sophisticated use of data, Cabinet Secretary? I think it’s very important, because it allows us, or gives us the chance, to get the maximum potential out of public spending. For instance, in areas where there is a high level of childcare provided from state sources, I would expect to see a lot of the local population engaged in delivering those childcare services, and if they’re not, it means, obviously, people are coming in from outside that area to deliver that service—a good thing in itself, but we’re not getting the best for the Welsh pound necessarily in the more deprived areas if public spending isn’t being thoroughly recycled in their economy.