<p>Big Data</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 15 February 2017.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:15, 15 February 2017

I thank the Member for that. There are things we say on this topic in the White Paper on local government, and I very much share his focus on the way in which big-data analysis can make a difference to the most everyday aspects of what local authorities provide. I was hearing only earlier this week from a big-data analysis company of the way in which, in another part of the world, simply by capturing data from citizens, they had been able to make a radical difference to the way in which roads are cleared at times of snow. It is by getting under the bonnet of data of that sort that councils will be able to face a very difficult future by using their limited resources in that more directly effective way.