Funding Allocations

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:21 pm on 9 October 2019.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 2:21, 9 October 2019

The Welsh Government tells us that its local government funding formula is heavily influenced by deprivation indicators. Anglesey is one of five local authorities where 30 per cent or more of workers are paid less than the voluntary living wage, and prosperity levels per head in Anglesey are the lowest in Wales at just under half of those in Cardiff. Yet, this financial year, Cardiff had a 0.9 per cent uplift, because you indicate Anglesey was in the group with the biggest cuts alongside four others, including Conwy and Flintshire. How will you ensure that a better measurement of those deprivation indicators will not put Anglesey and other affected councils in a similar position again?