The Effects of the Coronavirus

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 13 January 2021.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 1:42, 13 January 2021

Well, the local authority hardship fund has enabled local authorities to provide their own applications for funding. So, the funding that goes to the individual local authorities in Wales through that is on the basis of local need and local cost, rather than a per-head factor, for example. So, I think that has been a way in which we've been able to respond to those differential impacts that we've seen across Wales thus far. And, of course, the pandemic does take different shapes. It was only a few weeks ago that we were looking from the south very enviously up at north Wales in terms of the figures for the pandemic there. So, I think that we always need to be aware that things might change very quickly and be able to have the agile support, which I do think we have, available for local authorities and for others.