Newport City Council has made improvements in some aspects of its arrangements but has not achieved the scale and pace of change required and longstanding weaknesses in its governance remain. This is the conclusion of a corporate assessment follow up report published by the Auditor General today.

Auditor General for Wales, Huw Vaughan Thomas said:

The Auditor General has today reported that the Welsh Government’s Superfast Cymru contract, signed with BT in 2012 and supported by up to £205 million of public funding, is ‘making reasonable progress’ in rolling out access to next generation broadband services. The contract aims to provide access for around 700,000 premises across Wales where there is no planned commercial rollout. Work to promote exploitation of the benefits of this and other investment in next generation broadband infrastructure is now under way.