Local Government Funding

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 3:06 pm on 11 July 2018.

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Photo of Alun Davies Alun Davies Labour 3:06, 11 July 2018

—£4.1 billion in order to sustain and support the public services that she's described. I'm not going to stand here and defend for one moment the failed UK austerity programme, but what I will say to her is that I have not met a single councillor of any political stripe who has said to me, 'What we want to see is more Conservative policy and less Labour policy.' What I've heard from every councillor across the whole of Wales is gratitude for protecting local government from the worst of the UK austerity programme.