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Welsh Affairs

I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman rose, because it is a matter of record what the Tory party's policies are on child trust funds, child tax credits and other such matters. The Tories were wrong on the recession, and they are wrong on the recovery. Their plans for early and savage public investment cuts would choke off the recovery. They have no plans for growth—they have only a plan for austerity. Our Labour Government investment has ensured that, despite the worst global economic recession in more than 80 years, we have avoided the spectre of industrial decline, long-term unemployment and run-down public services—those are the kind of problems that Welsh people lived through to such terrible effect in the 1980s and 1990s.