Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:18 pm on 9 July 2019.
Thank you very much for that sedentary intervention.
We often seem to find it easier to fund things from capital budgets transferring to revenue than vice versa. I think we'd invest money well. Of that £85 million, though, only £5 million, when we read down, is actually going to the network operations BEL in respect of trunk road and motorway carriageway. So, as rightly observed, there is substantial funding for social housing, but despite being headlined within that £85 million there's only a very small proportion going to the extra funding for the trunk roads and motorway maintenance.
Finally from me, I just want to ask a bit more about the pensions. We have, within the health and social services MEG, a £46 million increase to cater for those UK Government changes to public service pension schemes. I read the letter, finance Minister, that you sent to the Chair of the Finance Committee around these and how the teaching support assistants weren't within this because that was local government, but that teachers were. So, I'm just still puzzled as to why the increase for education to fund this, if I've understood correctly, is only £0.5 million, whereas for the health service, it is £46 million. Thank you.