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Comprehensive Spending Review

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and I am sure that he supports what the Welsh Assembly Government is doing. It is a devolved matter, for them to decide. They will have to explain how they made those choices and ended up with reductions in spending on health and on students’ fees. I am sure that they will have good explanations and that the people of Wales will understand that those are the priorities of the Welsh Assembly Government. I am not some sort of viceroy—quite the reverse. I will not dictate to them how they spend their money or how they make those choices.