Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 12 February 2019.
I'm very happy to confirm to the Member the timetable for that review. We expect tenders for the work to be received by 25 February, that the contract will be awarded early in March, that the field work will take place between March and May and that advice to Ministers will be received by the end of June of this year. So, I think that is a pretty rapid turnaround for a very important piece of work. To agree, Llywydd, with what Ramsay said, this is a piece of—the responsibility for these services lies with local authorities. I have seen figures that show a very wide range of charges that are imposed by different local authorities in Wales, and the point of the review is to try to make sure that we have a service that is fair, equitable and co-ordinated, and where people don't feel that they are at the mercy of the geography of where they happen to live.