Allocating Expenditure within Portfolios

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 17 March 2021.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 2:14, 17 March 2021

I'd be interested to know, Minister, what steps you take to monitor the expenditure by individual Ministers when you are looking at specific sectors that you wish to develop within Wales. For example, if Wales was to decide to try to become a science superpower, which is where I think we should be heading, and you wanted to put far more investment into research and development, into supporting our thriving research and innovation centres within our universities and within our medical establishments, how would you then tie that back to that principle by ensuring that Ministers that may be involved in that—e.g. health, education—do afford the right sums of money to help support that governmental goal?