Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 28 September 2022.
Thank you very much for raising that and, of course, the statement last Friday, I think that one of the biggest impacts of it will be the fact that there was absolutely nothing there to support public services. You’ll have heard me say yesterday that our Welsh Government budget is now, across these three years, worth up to £4 billion less than it was when we set our spending plans, and obviously that has a knock-on impact then for local government and the difficult choices that they're going to be having to make over the autumn and the winter, but then also into the next financial year as well. So, we'll continue to press the UK Government to find additional funding to support public services. There will be public services and local authorities across the border making the same arguments to the UK Government, and I think that the sooner they wake up and recognise that they have to support public services the better, and we'll be able to provide that additional investment then to support our local authorities and health and other public services in Wales.