6. Will the First Minister make a statement on how the Welsh Government plans to allocate the Barnett consequentials that emanate from the UK Government's budget? OAQ52844

Decisions on the allocation of additional funding will be made by the Welsh Cabinet in the usual way.

We look forward to hearing those details in due course, if not today. But the First Minister did say to the Member for Cynon Valley earlier that she's right to say the Welsh Government offered support to business. He didn't repeat her perhaps more questionable claims that it offered more support than anywhere else in the UK, or that more businesses in Wales received support than elsewhere. He said that he didn't know what the Barnett consequential was. The number we have is £26 million over the coming two years. Can he tell us whether Welsh business will be getting that type of support, as will be available to their competitors in England?

And the Member knows full well that picking out one consequential doesn't give the full picture, because our consequential comes as part of a block. As part of that block, there will be some things that will be additional and some things that will be removed, because of a consequential cut in funding in the equivalent department in Whitehall. So, we have to deal with what is there in the block, but, of course, we will, over the next week or so, look at how the extra money—although it's nowhere near close to what was described—will actually be allocated.