Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:56 pm on 5 July 2017.
Diolch, Lywydd. Minister, you’ve just been talking about the local government proposed reforms. One of the issues that I think has emerged, from what you’ve told us so far, is the theme of localism versus the need for systematic and mandatory ways of working, to use your own phrase. In other words, we need councils to be able to operate in their own way to some extent, and that they have to conform to Wales-wide standards in some areas. We had the issue recently in England of whether or not a council could or should have excluded the press from a meeting. Now, there is an issue in Wales of the variability of tv coverage of council meetings, so how far will you go down the road of enforcing systematic and mandatory working in this area?