Cost-of-living Crisis

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 14 June 2022.

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Photo of Ken Skates Ken Skates Labour 2:07, 14 June 2022

Well, thank you, First Minister, that is enormous help for my constituents, but would you agree that the Chancellor's offer to households facing the cost-of-living crisis is simply not enough and, indeed, insulting, given it's to be paid from the cut to universal credit last year? So much more could have been offered to hard-pressed households had the Chancellor not lost £11 billion in failing to ensure against interest rate rises, or by losing £6 billion in fraudulent bounce-back loans. And why, First Minister, do you think that UK Government Ministers just can't bring themselves to call this 'a crisis'?