Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 18 October 2022.
'Pie in the sky' would be the kindest way to describe it. You can use those levers, and they bring in very, very modest amounts of money. And that assumes—which is quite heroic, really—that the people who are now being asked to pay more tax in Wales than they would be asked to pay across the border don't organise their affairs in a way that immunises them from that effect. Let's just assume for a moment—and not many economists would—that people simply stay where they are and pay the extra money. It brings in, in the context that we are talking about, a handful of millions of pounds, and there is no way at all that it would stretch probably even to the first of that very long list of purposes that the leader of Plaid Cymru has suggested you would cover from them this afternoon.