Thank you for that response. Of course, you will know as well as I do that the reality is that councils are facing the very difficult position of cutting services on the one hand and increasing council tax on the other, and Conwy council is the latest authority to have talked about increases of up to 11 per cent while, simultaneously, there are hardly any non-statutory services left to cut.

With councils on their knees and more cuts on the horizon next year, and given what’s happened to some authorities in England, such as Northampton, where they have failed to continue to deliver front-line services, can I ask whether the Welsh Government has a process in place to deal with such a situation if it were to arise in one of the local authorities of Wales? Would you be prepared for such a situation?