Part of 2. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 1 March 2017.
Yes, I’m very happy to approach the FM to do that. I’m happy to write again myself as well to make those points again. I do think they’re very important points. As Members will know in this Chamber, we are developing our employability plan. Many of the functions of an employability plan coincide with the functions of the DWP, and we have been talking to them about co-location of services. It need not necessarily involve a rental situation; there are other ways of doing this.
We are very anxious that those are constructive conversations that are based on the need for services in a particular area and not on the need for a particular estate strategy. I think it’s very short-sighted indeed to plan services very badly needed in communities around an estates policy, and not around a community and public service focus. And I’m very happy to make those points again, and I will do so in due course.