Recommendation 185

They asked for longer contracts. “Longer contracts certainly help to build relationships and stability, and people understand where they need to go”, Carrie Peters told us. 351 Niki Scordi said she would like contracts to last “ten years”. 352 Rebecca Robson agreed that she would “not want to go through that process too many times”. 353 Chris Jennings, talking about cooperation between UK Government and Welsh Government, sympathised as he regretted that he has “a short-term funding solution for a long-term problem” and was hoping for a “long-term funding arrangement”. 354 Damian Hinds MP acknowledged that “in an ideal world, you would probably always want to have rolling contracts, so that the organisation can always have some certainty” but argued that “there is a balance to be struck” because “that is not the way we do public finance in this country” and “it never has been”. 355