Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:36 pm on 17 May 2017.
I’m very grateful to you, particularly for the last part of your answer there. As I say, I’m more than happy to welcome everything that’s in the statement, but, obviously, I’m going to be scrutinising you on how well you are watching how that is spent. The £3 million given to local authorities for respite, obviously, and particularly in view of what we were talking about here yesterday, is very important. It’s an area where provision is particularly weak, and I’m very keen to know what you’re going to do to make sure that that is spent on front-line respite provision and that it doesn’t get eaten up in procurement or commissioning processes, which do have a tendency to eat up money, particularly when it comes to respite for social care, where we need every single penny.