<p>The Distribution of Local Government Funding</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 4 July 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:36, 4 July 2017

Well, if you look at the—if I can use the word—‘rankings’, for local authorities, Denbighshire’s allocation is the fourth highest, Gwynedd is ninth, Carmarthenshire is tenth, Ceredigion fourteenth, Powys fifteenth, Pembrokeshire seventeenth. In comparison, Swansea is sixteenth, Flintshire nineteenth, and Cardiff is twentieth. It would seem to me that rurality is taken into account. And the reality is, of course, it’s a matter for local authorities to agree amongst themselves what they wish the funding formula to look like, rather than one authority wanting to change it without the support of others.