Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 7 June 2017.
Llywydd, can I just make it clear that I agree with the central thrust of the questions that Nick Ramsay has asked this afternoon? It is an important responsibility of Government, in bringing forward legislation, to make sure that the costings that are attached to it are as thoroughly worked out and as reliable as we can make them. The system that we have is a maturing system. As it matures, we should be able to do better at it. The Finance Committee’s inquiry will, I think, be a helpful contribution to that, and it is the ambition of both myself as the finance Minister and all my Cabinet colleagues, I know, that when we bring proposals to the floor of this Assembly, they are as robustly underpinned by analysis and by data as we can possibly make them.