9. 9. Urgent Debate: The UK Government-DUP ‘Confidence and Supply’ Agreement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:37 pm on 27 June 2017.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 5:37, 27 June 2017

The United Kingdom—[Interruption.] The United Kingdom needs a Government, and a majority Government, to get on and get on with its business. And so, to achieve that majority status, obviously a deal was concluded with the Democratic Unionist Party, along the same lines—[Interruption.] I can see the Member for Ogmore chuntering away there, but it is a fact that Shaun Woodward, when he was Secretary of State in 2010 after the 2010 general election, was trying to carve a deal up with the DUP then, which involved money over to Northern Ireland. And also Lord Adonis, in his memoirs, makes exactly the same point. Now, what we need to be doing here, from Wales’s point of view, as I have said time and time again, and as I said yesterday and I said last week, is that where money has gone over and benefited—