I'm also pleased to contribute to this afternoon's debate on the first supplementary budget, both as shadow Finance Minister on this side of the Chamber and also as a member of the Finance Committee. It will come as no surprise to the Minister that, as per the Welsh Conservative tradition, we will not be supporting this supplementary budget. On the basis that we did not support the original budget to which it's supplementary, we will be abstaining.

Now, as the Minister said, there are a number of technical changes and transfers and the like within this budget, which are to be expected. That said, there are a couple of issues of concern surrounding this budget, many of which have been touched on by the Chair of the Finance Committee. As Llyr Gruffydd has said, the committee was particularly concerned by the lack of clarity surrounding the budget, particularly in relation to the ambitions and funding for the M4 commission. We know that that £20 million allocated to the M4 black route has now transferred back, or transferred into reserves. But just how the commission will have the first call on that funding was less than clear. That money is apparently not ring-fenced. Perhaps the Minister can give us some answers to those questions. We didn't get all those answers that we would have liked during our evidence sessions.

Now, okay, the black route has bitten the dust, but surely there should be a much stronger financial framework at this point to give the commission a free hand in recommending the best solution of those left on the table, whether that be enhanced public transport, the metro or an engineering solution, such as new tunnels at Brynglas, carriageway realignment and the like or, indeed, more likely a combination of some of these options.

There's also the question surrounding the issue of borrowing. It's not just capital that is being used here or intended to be used. Borrowing is apparently going to continue at previous levels needed to fund the black route in the absence of the road and in the absence of any tangible projects in its place. So, perhaps the Minister can set the record straight there in terms of what her intentions are with that level of borrowing. The Finance Committee certainly didn't feel that we'd got to the bottom of it. How long will the commission will be in place? When will the next steps, which are talked about, be implemented? When will the financial arrangements be put in place for that? The people of south-east Wales are obviously looking to the Welsh Government now to provide a solution to the congestion on the M4.

In the meantime, it would have been nice to have seen some more work being done in the absence of that road scheme, looking at other possible congestion-relieving schemes in the south-east Wales area—my shopping list, as the First Minister once referred to it: a Chepstow bypass, potentially a new junction on the M48, the renewal of the road surface between Abergavenny and Raglan on the A40—. I've been through them many times before. But there are other possible schemes as well, which I know other Members have an interest in.

So, yes, we accept that many of these changes are technical and necessary, but I think there could have been a little bit more direction in this budget and pointing a way to the future. As for the other issues that have been dealt with and touched on by the supplementary budget report done by the Finance Committee, we broadly were supportive of the increase in the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales's budget for 2019-20, the Assembly Commission budget and the Auditor General for Wales—the increase in revenue.

As I said at the start of my contribution, the Welsh Conservatives will not be supporting this budget. We will be abstaining for the reasons I stated previously.