Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 21 September 2021.
Thank you, First Minister. This has, of course, demonstrated the economic benefits that come to local areas when the public sector and local authorities in particular, perhaps, are accredited as living wage employers, because they are key anchor organisations in those communities. In a statement in 2019, you said that you would write to all public bodies in Wales asking them to achieve living wage accreditation. Can you tell us, therefore, whether all local authorities in particular have responded positively to that request and are moving in that direction proactively? If not, then what are you as a Government doing to encourage them to take action on that? And finally, by when do you as a Government foresee that every local authority in Wales will have become an accredited living wage employer?