The Welsh Government's Budget

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:30 pm on 6 November 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:30, 6 November 2018

We hope to give informal indications within the next fortnight. It's not the case that every single penny of consequential will go to local government, but they are very much in our minds, and, as I said, they are first in the queue. We understand the difficulties that they face. We've had to take, of course, very difficult decisions in terms of what we have not been able to do, in order to make sure that the cut in local government funding wasn't as severe as it otherwise might have been, but those discussions are ongoing and we want to see what we can do in order to help local government, although it will still be tough.