Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution – in the Senedd at 2:35 pm on 1 March 2023.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 2:35, 1 March 2023

Well, I always reflect on my comments, but I can't, still, understand why on earth, given that the commission is supposed to complete its work in the current calendar year, you have allocated expenditure that takes it through to March 2025. You still haven't answered that principal question. Why is a commission, which is due to be finished, having in your budget line—in the Welsh Government's indicative budget for 2024-25—this £1.1 million further? It seems to me that that is a waste of resource, and, particularly, when we have people across Wales right now struggling with the pressures of the cost-of-living issues that they face, when we know that our NHS continues to be under significant pressure, when people have still, unfortunately, according to the Programme for International Student Assessment—not me, Joyce Watson—the worst education system in the UK, and the lowest take-home pay? Why is it that you would allocate a further £1.1 million for this, what we regard as an unnecessary commission, in the year after it has completed its work? We still haven't had an answer to that question, and I would request one once again.