3. 2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:30 pm on 3 October 2017.

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Photo of Jane Hutt Jane Hutt Labour 2:30, 3 October 2017

I thank Julie Morgan for that question. And, of course, immediately after our business statement, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, as you said, will be publishing the Welsh Government’s outline draft budget for 2018-19, making an oral statement. We’ve repeatedly called—certainly led by the Cabinet Secretary—on the UK Government to end its damaging and flawed policy of austerity. And it was good to see partners coming together—leaders and mayors, and, indeed, Assembly Members, certainly—supporting that call, that anti-austerity rally, at city hall in Cardiff. But we do have the first opportunity this afternoon to debate the draft budget, on the day it’s published. And there will be a further opportunity to repeat our call to the UK Government to choose a different path, to end austerity.