Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:12 pm on 7 May 2019.
Yes, thank you very much for those points, Dai Lloyd. I'm very, very happy to confirm that we're looking very carefully to ensure that we enhance the well-being of future generations Act when we do this work and, indeed, when we do other work. You'll know that, in my previous portfolio, I was instrumental in getting a piece of research done to make sure that we don't inadvertently weaken that Act by subsequent legislation, and we're very keen to make sure we carry that forward into this Act as well. If necessary, we need to amend that Act to strengthen it, but that will be part of the consideration in taking forward the social partnership Act.
In terms of public procurement, the report makes some very detailed recommendations about the use of public money as leverage in order to get particular types of response. That will be one of the things we'll be very carefully considering. The report has already been discussed with social partners and so on, so the timeline is that we will respond at the end of June once all the social partners, and anyone else who wants to make a contribution, have been able to do so. That's a very tight timescale in one way, but, in a sense, we've developed this in social partnership, so it's a timeline that people are happy with and happy to take forward. We'll then have a conference in June, which we'll be inviting a large range of stakeholders to, in order to shape it to go forward.
The whole purpose of this is, of course, to take the private sector, the public sector, the trade unions and the Government, including all of us here, along the same path together to a shared goal. And I think it's clear that there are shared goals here. The big question will be how can we get the most leverage in place in order to achieve those shared goals, and I think that, rightly, you'll be holding us to account on how fast we do that.