Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 18 October 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:01, 18 October 2022

Llywydd, I have already agreed with the leader of Plaid Cymru that progressive taxation is the way in which we should fund public services. What I can't possibly agree with him on is that raising taxes in the way that he suggested in his first question—. Because he asked me in his first question, you'll remember, whether we should raise the two additional rates of taxation that we are able to modify here in Wales—not the basic rate, but the other two higher rates. They bring in less than tens of millions of pounds if you raise them. There's no chance at all that they would begin to cover that long list of purposes for which he said those funds could then be applied. It's just—