The Education Portfolio

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 18 September 2019.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 1:33, 18 September 2019

Well, the Welsh Government will not receive £1.25 billion over the next three years; the Welsh Government will receive an additional £593 million above our current budget for next year, and that represents an increase of 2.3 per cent in real terms, and we'll also receive an additional £18 million in capital, which will be a 2.4 per cent increase on our current budget. And I have to say this goes back to that point about the NHS and education in England being afforded that three-year look ahead in terms of their budgets. We were promised, in a meeting with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, that there would be a three-year comprehensive spending review this year. Instead, we've only been allocated a short spending round, which doesn't give us the ability to plan ahead in the same way. It doesn't give us the ability to allow local authorities to plan ahead in the same way. So, it's completely untrue to suggest that we have a three-year settlement of over £1 billion.