Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:21 pm on 13 June 2018.
Thank you for that brief response. I'd hoped you would have talked about collaboration in your response, because that’s what’s missing, it seems to me, at the moment in response to this consultation. I’m not sure why the Government is so enthusiastic for reforming and reorganising local government when they have proposals from local authorities themselves to collaborate more effectively and more strategically, in the light of all the changes that are going to occur as a result of Brexit. How does the Minister intend to respond to that consultation on the basis of local government’s response to date, which seems to show that they’re pushing against his ideas, and that he isn’t offering collaboration with them?