Services are better delivered locally say Tories

What matters to the vast majority of hardworking families is not the intricate structures of local government, but knowing that services will be delivered in an efficient and cost effective way.

We believe that public services are best delivered locally so taxpayers can hold local representatives to account for what happens in their community.

We welcome the publication of this much-anticipated report, which now paves the way for the Welsh Labour Government and the First Minister to promptly set out their proposals to end this period of limbo and uncertainty in local government.