Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:34 pm on 29 April 2020.
Your colleague, the finance Minister, has confirmed to me that the additional £95 million that Welsh Government is receiving following the UK Government's announcement of extra funding for local government in England will go into the Welsh Government's central fund. Given the comments you've made, how will you address the impacts of COVID-19 on local authority finances after the survey that the Welsh Local Government Association asked local authorities to complete by the end of this month reveals what the situation might be in terms of lost income, currently estimated at £33.2 million per month, although there's some potential for mitigating cost savings; immediate additional revenue cost of responding to the emergency, although I acknowledge that you've sent a claim form out to local authorities so that they can claim these back; longer term additional revenue costs and additional capital costs, where each local authority, as I'm sure you'll acknowledge, will be in a different position in terms of their own financial resilience and reserves, with some more exposed than others?