Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:37 pm on 14 October 2020.
Minister, a number of weeks ago we were getting concerned about supermarkets in the Rhondda Cynon Taf area because standards were dropping. Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, who've taken on, I think, 20 enforcement officers, or so, have been meeting with and have gone round the supermarkets. And I can say, in the Rhondda Cynon Taf area and the Pontypridd area, that the standards of discipline within the supermarkets is very, very high. And I think we've all been very impressed, and by the fact that the supermarkets are even now very safely administering flu vaccines. What I'd like to ask, though, is about the maintenance of the resources that local government need to actually keep this level of enforcement and monitoring going, all the way through to the next couple of months, which I think is going to be necessary. Has there been any discussion between you and the Minister for Finance over the resources that are going to be required by local government to ensure that we don't slip back and that we maintain the level of monitoring and enforcement that is being maintained at the present time?