Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 5 July 2017.
Well, Llywydd, I think I would put it like this: that even in such a case, there will be a set of rules that are being followed, and I would be wanting to make sure from the Welsh Government’s point of view that the rulebook, as it exists today, is being followed scrupulously. The assurance I wanted to give the Member in answer to his second question is that when that matter does come to a conclusion, what I will want to do will be to revisit that whole process to see whether we think that the rulebook, as it operated, was commensurate with the issue that it was there to resolve. And if we feel in the light of that experience that the rulebook needs to be revised, and a fresh set of arrangements put in place that ensure that intervention is possible in a timely way and which allows issues to be resolved, then that’s the set of lessons that I will hopefully be able to learn from that experience.