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Comprehensive Spending Review

Of course, I agree. The Conservatives do not know where they are at all, certainly with their coalition partners. In terms of what happens on the cuts, something is said in Cardiff and something is said here in London. As for the Liberal Democrats, they are changing the constitution as we go along. I spent 17 years teaching young people about the British constitution and collective Cabinet responsibility. Yesterday, that particular doctrine disappeared. The textbooks will have to be rewritten. The Business Secretary said that he is going to abstain on the issue of tuition fees. [Hon. Members: ““No, he didn’t.””] Well, he has changed his mind then. Yesterday, the junior coalition partners could not decide what to do about the cuts that have led to the increase in tuition fees. I am not saying that the principle of tuition fees is wrong—far from it, because the Labour Government introduced them. I am simply not sure what the Government are doing about individual cuts to individual services, because they are all over the place, with cuts in education and elsewhere. On the electrification of the railway line from our capital city to the capital city in England, the Secretary of State for Wales indicated that we must wait for news. I hope that the news will be good, because she and I, and others, have fought for a long time for the electrification of the line. However, there are other troubling issues. The hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan must be worried about what is going to happen to the St Athan project. We were given an indication that some of it might continue, but we do not yet know. All of us are worried about the 40% cut in capital spending on projects in Wales. That is a huge worry, because reducing capital spending has a consequence for unemployment and so on.