Budgetary Priorities for Local Government

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 13 November 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:14, 13 November 2018

Well, just to reiterate what I said before, local authorities are at the front of the queue. We are looking to see what kind of further financial package might be made available to local authorities, and that is something we will be considering over the course of the next week or two. We do understand, of course, the fact that austerity has imposed such a squeeze on local authority finances, and I believe that, when we state to the Assembly how we plan to deal with the not anything like as much amount as was announced by the Chancellor, but nevertheless some consequential that we have received in Wales, the package that we have for local government will be fair given the circumstances we've found ourselves in.