Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:45 pm on 13 June 2018.

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Photo of Gareth Bennett Gareth Bennett UKIP 2:45, 13 June 2018

Diversity is something that we are about to explore on the local government committee, so we will, hopefully, feed into that process, and that is something that does concern us. You gave an interesting answer about the local referendum issue, citing the example of California, so I'm encouraged by that. Given your interest in these ideas and these different forms of democracy—representative democracy, direct democracy et cetera—I would be interested in how you look to incorporate these ideas going forward. Would you accept, though, at this stage, that there is a problem with public perception of the planning system in Wales—not just in Wales, but in the UK—and that it does seem to be unrepresentative of local citizenry?