8. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Government Funding

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:58 pm on 27 March 2019.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 4:58, 27 March 2019

I thank you so much for giving way, and I know you were in full steam there. Does he see any read across at all to the complaint that we make about the stranglehold that UK Government funding has on Wales with what's happening in England? English councils are screaming about the austerity measures on them, where £16 billion of core funding has been pulled away from local government in England by the UK Government since 2010. Can you see any common strand going on here?