The 2021 Spending Review

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 13 October 2021.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 1:39, 13 October 2021

Well, there's a deep irony in that question, of course, because the UK Government is not funding the Welsh Government in respect of the £375 million that we would previously have received from the European Union, and much of that funding actually went into investing in skills, employability, apprenticeships, the Development Bank of Wales and other strategic infrastructure projects. So, there's clearly a disconnect between the Member's desire for additional funding in this area and the actual reality of what the UK Government is doing in terms of not living up to its promise that Wales wouldn't be a penny worse off.