Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 3 October 2018.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 2:27, 3 October 2018

Diolch, Llywydd. This morning you issued a joint written statement with the Minister for Housing and Regeneration on the early prevention, intervention and  support grant. You spoke about planning, commissioning and delivering services reflecting the complexity of people's lives, and the inter-relationships between their support needs. You confirmed what the finance Secretary said yesterday: that the grant would be split in two, between housing-related and non-housing-related elements, with the establishment of a children and communities grant for the pieces falling within your remit. You also said that you'll work in partnership with local authorities and wider stakeholders to take forward the new arrangements, and emphasised the importance of early intervention and prevention. Can you therefore confirm, or will you confirm, whether that funding will now be ring-fenced, as grants generally are, or will it be going into the revenue support grant? If it's not ring-fenced, how will the Welsh Government be monitoring and evaluating outcomes to establish whether this money actually found its way to where it was intended?