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Comprehensive Spending Review

I entirely agree. Over the past 11 years, in every Welsh Grand Committee that I have had the privilege of taking part in, on and off, and at which the Government announced, for example, major hospital building or extra money for the Assembly—the Welsh people never had more money than they did under the Labour Government—I never heard the current Secretary of State or her predecessors complain. Indeed, the junior partners in the coalition certainly did not complain about the money going to Wales. In fact, they did the opposite and said, ““We want more—and more and more.”” Saying we spent too much during the past 13 years is nonsense. It was not said at the time.