Part of 4. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:17 pm on 6 December 2017.
Llywydd, as the Member will know, this is primarily the responsibility of my colleague Ken Skates in taking forward the suggestions that he has made. The note that I have is that, as a result of a previous question that he raised, Welsh Government officials have had discussions with regional leads in the banking industry to look at ways in which bank premises in rural locations, for example, could be repurposed to help deliver wider community services, and that those discussions have also touched on the community facilities programme that we have as a Welsh Government to see whether existing facilities that are being adapted with community facilities and activities programme funding could include a banking purpose in the way that services from those premises are provided in future. I'll make sure that my colleague knows of the question you've raised this afternoon. I think you can be assured that it has been more than just words, that actual meetings have taken place and a potential agenda for action is being developed as a result of those meetings.