YOUR correspondent, C Whittaker, is living in dreamland.

The 2016 Welsh Government budget allocates just over £3.4 billion to local government (that’s over and above Local Authority income from council tax and business rates).

And health spending is allocated £7 billion. Central services and administration in contrast is allocated £0.31 billion.

Cardiff and the Vale Trust employs around 12,000 people, so quite a lot more than the quoted Welsh Government/Assembly figure of 7,000.

The NHS in Wales directly employs about 74,000 people. It is simply a fantasy to suppose that cutting central administration spending would make much difference to front-line services.

Michael Phelps

Raisdale Gardens

Penarth