Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:52 pm on 27 March 2019.
Thank you, Mike. I always listen very carefully to your contributions on local government. With regard to social services, it is that biggest fund, as part of the budget, but I made the point in my contribution: if you've got an increasingly elderly population, such as Powys—it'll have 25 per cent of its population over 75 by 2040—surely you know the significant extra costs of delivering local services with an older population. The funding formula doesn't address that. Do you think it should address that?