Poverty in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:21 pm on 12 March 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:21, 12 March 2019

Llywydd, those whose lives have been most affected by poverty have been made to bear a wholly unfair burden of the austerity policies pursued by the UK Government—policies now in their ninth year. The Welsh Government focuses on those practical measures that we can take that release money into the pockets of those affected by poverty in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, and across Wales.