Group 11: Citizen Voice Body — resources (Amendments 57, 58)

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 8:00 pm on 10 March 2020.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 8:00, 10 March 2020

Excellent point, Helen Mary, and well made. We need to ensure that this body can do what it's supposed to do. We do not want it to be hamstrung by a lack of funding. We do not want it, in the years to come, to suffer a slow death by a thousand cuts. It's here to represent the citizen. It is their one and only true voice that belongs to them. You need to fund it, Minister, and you need to make sure that that's enshrined in law so that the next person who comes along after you, who may not be quite so generous-hearted, doesn't swipe their funding and use it for something else.