Quangos

Part of 3. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:06 pm on 12 November 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:06, 12 November 2019

Llywydd, I had understood the question to be about the number of quangos in Wales, and the 30,000 third sector organisations are not quangos in any sense of that word. There are so many organisations in Wales because Wales has such a rich culture of community action and so many people in Wales determined to make their contribution in that way. They often range from tiny charities, set up to resolve very local issues, often to reflect individual experiences that people have had in their own lives. I think there's plenty of room in our life in Wales for those people and those organisations, and I think it's more a matter to be celebrated, that we have so many people and so many bodies who, in Wales, want to make that contribution, and I'd rather have that problem than I would of having too few people and too few organisations willing to step up to help us with the things we face today.