Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 15 June 2022.
This is a very important issue. Obviously, we welcome any moves that there have been on the fuel duty and would welcome further moves. Again, it’s crucially important that carers, particularly in places like Ceredigion, have access to fuel because it’s absolutely necessary for them, to help the vulnerable people, that they have to travel to work. So, I think that we need a whole package of measures in order to look at this and this is something that we are discussing with the local authorities about what we can do in order to also increase the amount of money that is paid per mile by the local authorities to the carers. Because some payments are below the cost, so there is a lot of work to do in that field.