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Comprehensive Spending Review

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. First, let me correct something. We have already launched ““The path to strong, sustainable and balanced growth””—it was launched by the Chancellor and the Business Secretary on 29 November—and it will involve a complex body of work. I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman has not welcomed some of the statements by the OBR, not least that general Government employment is expected to fall by 330,000 over the next four years, which is 160,000 fewer than the 490,000 that was forecast in June, so we are moving in the right direction. The OBR central forecast was that the Government will meet its fiscal mandate to eliminate the structural current budget deficit one year early, which means that taxpayers’ money will be spent not on interest on debt to foreign lenders but on this country and the people in Wales.