Public Spending Figures for the Nations of the UK

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:17 pm on 5 December 2018.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:17, 5 December 2018

I think I'm—[Interruption.] Yes, yes. The point that the Member asked me was whether there is a mechanism in the fiscal framework that guarantees that Wales gets a fixed percentage of the funding that is announced in England. The answer is that it does. That has given us £70 million additional so far, following the signing of the fiscal framework, and, if you take into account the promised additional funding for the NHS over the next few years, that will give us £270 million beyond what we otherwise would have had without the conclusion of that agreement.