Ceredigion chief executive Eifion Evans discusses council funding
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00:00The dynamic across Wales is at the moment, in my opinion, and I'm probably going to get a
00:05wrap across the knuckles for saying this, but it is a two-tier funding model and urban-centric
00:12areas get far more generous settlement than rural areas and they use data sets. You know,
00:20some of the arguments we've been fighting here today are about you haven't used proper data
00:24sets. Well, if you use O&S data sets, which is a finger in the air job, as opposed to census data,
00:33and you get that figure wrong, the implications for us are huge. And it's been wrong, you know,
00:39we've had a negative impact on our budgets since well before the last census.