Welfare and Social Security

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:38 pm on 2 May 2018.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 2:38, 2 May 2018

I thank you for the response. And as has been the theme of questions today, last week, your Government made a deal with the Conservatives in Westminster, where you essentially agreed with them, and trust them not to interfere in devolved matters on powers returning from Brussels. Yet, time and time again in this Senedd, and elsewhere, Members of the Labour Government have repeatedly declined to press for the case of the devolution of welfare and benefits, on the basis that they do not trust the Tories to fulfil the commitments of any deal that might be arranged to facilitate it. Members of this Government have in the past claimed that the Scottish Government, for example, has not got the administration powers in relation to the devolution of some of their welfare powers, which, of course, we know is not the case because of the fiscal framework. Given the fact that this deal was made last week, why is not possible to do it in relation to welfare?