Cost-of-living Financial Support Package

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 25 May 2022.

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Photo of Joyce Watson Joyce Watson Labour 1:33, 25 May 2022

I thank you for you answer, Minister. The Welsh Government is of course using every tool in its box to put money back into people's pockets, but the UK Government doesn't seem to realise or care about the scale of the emergency my constituents and people up and down the country are facing. Do you agree with me that it should bring forward an emergency budget now, including a windfall tax on oil and gas profits and a VAT cut on home energy bills, and focus their minds as much on helping people through this crisis as they have on arranging illegal partying in Downing Street? The Welsh Government of course is giving a £150 payment to people and I understand that, as you said, more than 332,000 households have already received it. When can all the others expect to receive that payment?