Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 22 November 2022.
Minister, my constituents are already struggling to afford their bills—not just people on low incomes but on middle incomes as well. The Office for Budget Responsibility forecast last week, in response to the autumn statement, states that the next two years will see the biggest fall in household incomes in generations. More than half of households will be worse off after the autumn statement. British families will lose 7.1 per cent of their disposable income. This year, we will see the biggest fall in real disposable income per head since the late 1940s. Next year is not that much better; we will see the second largest fall on record. So, will the Welsh Government continue to urge the UK Government, in the strongest terms, to seriously tackle this cost-of-living and household income crisis, which is devastating people right across the UK, or, frankly, step aside and let a Labour Government that will tackle this get in place as soon as possible?