The Twenty-first Century Schools Programme

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 17 March 2021.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 1:32, 17 March 2021

Minister, I'm sure you'll be relieved to hear I'm not a candidate for the election, so I'll not read out my election address; I'll just move to an appropriate question. When large sums of money are given for public use, I think we need the maximum value for the Welsh pound. And here, I do commend RCT council for the way they've used some of these moneys to promote, through the schools programme, ecological habitat, the imaginative use of technologies, connectedness to other priorities like Welsh-language childcare settings in Welsh-medium primary schools, and also dual use of sports facilities so that they're also available to the community. And we do need to use our public expenditure in this way, to get the maximum value from them.