Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 24 January 2018.
Well, that’s perfectly true, what Simon Thomas has just said: I have a list here that I can use to demonstrate the impact the Act has had to date. But on the subject that he has raised, I have met, over the past fortnight, with Lesley Griffiths to begin the process of planning how, over the ensuing year, we will be able to bring the process of creating the budget together with the process of carbon budgeting, as we call it. And so, that work or that process has begun, and the civil servants are working on the detail. I have a meeting with the commissioner next week to discuss the same subject. Yes, we are eager, as a Government, and I know that Lesley Griffiths is eager, to do more to unify the two processes, assimilate them, and to have an opportunity to report back to Assembly Members on how we can bring the two elements together and have greater impact by so doing.