<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 6 June 2017.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 1:43, 6 June 2017

Well, as well you know, the agreement between the Welsh Government and the Westminster Government put the funding floor in place, which was warmly endorsed by your Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government only in December of last year. Thirteen years—you did nothing. But that’s not quite what the Scottish Conservatives are saying, and I offered you the opportunity to actually clarify your position because you were very robust last night in saying that the Barnett formula would be scrapped. Actually, what the Scottish Labour party are saying is that there will be no scrapping of the Barnett formula, and these are their words:

‘Not to scrap the Barnett formula’.

All that is merely being proposed in the next Parliament—these are their words—is a long-term consultation to look at funding the UK allocates around the public expenditure that comes from Westminster to ensure that it reflects the nations and the regions of the United Kingdom. Those are their words, those are. That isn’t getting rid of the Barnett formula at all. Are you misleading the people of Wales with your comments yesterday, First Minister?