The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 16 October 2019.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 1:38, 16 October 2019

I note that Lord Bird, the founder of The Big Issue, is introducing a future generations Act into the House of Lords, inspired very much by the work of Welsh Government. So, a big tick for that. I think this is a really good process, but I have to say, in the financial scrutiny I've been involved in in committees, when you ask the senior officials what training they have had in the use of the Act in budget formation, what decisions have been made that have been different to previous decision making, where the shift's occurring, we get sometimes an embarrassed silence. So, I do hope there'll be some rigour in your monitoring and evaluation of how this Act is used in the budget-making process.