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.
Well, the Member makes the point, more eloquently than I did, that I was trying to make earlier, that we have to be interested in return on investment, not simply investment. Historically, I think you’d have to say that public authorities have been very good at collecting data and have put much less effort into the analysis of data. So, you get an awful lot of stuff on your table, but nobody to help you to make much sense of it. The point of making sense of it is to make sure that we get the return on the investment that we made, that works for the communities where the money is being spent, and the people who live in them.