Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:47 pm on 17 May 2022.
Thank you very much for that, Vikki, and thank you for your kind words. So, part of what we're looking at is who is responsible for which bit of this, where does the data come from, who is responsible for collating and holding it and so on, and, as I said, we've got a number of split responsibilities. It may well be that it comes back with, 'That's good, but you need to do x, y, z', or, 'That's not good and it should be with a particular agency.' So, that is one of the things that we want to have a look at. And also, at the moment, a section 19 report informs the work of the authority that produces it: should it be wider than that? What are the lessons to be learnt across boundaries and all that kind of thing? And then, the last one is: what is the role of the local community in feeding that in? They're not experts, but they have lived experience of it. So, we expect, in the various reviews that are undertaken, those issues will come back out to us as part of that.
And then I have had a really good conversation with NRW about what's called the baseline review of the work that they do, to go through all of the resources currently available to them, where they're currently deployed, whether that's optimal or not and how they can be redeployed towards our priorities, and we're doing a piece of work about how their funding works in terms of income and so on, which I hope to report on to the Senedd later in the summer, which I think will clarify some of those issues as well.