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

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 27 June 2017.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 1:44, 27 June 2017

Well, what we’re talking about here is a bean-counters convention. [Interruption.] It is nothing new. We knew in advance of the decision being taken, months and months ago, what the ONS rules and Treasury rules on how to treat long-term spending of this kind were. So, this is something that could have been decided a very long time ago. Why has the Welsh Government allowed this project to limp along for six years when that could have been recognised right from the start? What we need to do here, surely, is to change the accounting convention rather than just destroy the hopes of those who were relying upon regenerating the whole of south-east Wales. Because if it is the case that it is only the rules of the Office for National Statistics and Her Majesty’s Treasury in London that have killed this project, then that is an absolute disgrace.