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Comprehensive Spending Review

I want to make some progress, because others need to speak. This Government’s actions have hit Wales harder than anywhere else. The comprehensive spending review was a reckless gamble. Families, workers and businesses in Wales are worried stiff about their future. Nothing can disguise the savage cuts inflicted on the Welsh budget, on top of closing the passport office, cutting the St. Athan defence training college—which, by the way, would have saved the Government money—abandoning the Severn barrage and kicking rail electrification to Swansea into the long grass. While the Chancellor was still on his feet delivering the CSR, part of it was already being judicially reviewed. There are all sorts of issues with the S4C Authority, but we support S4C in seeking a judicial review of the Government’s decision about its future.