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Comprehensive Spending Review

I am obviously delighted to hear that clarification, and I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Glamorgan will be delighted to hear it. We heard that the Welsh settlement has been particularly bad, and that the coalition Government have been extremely ungenerous towards Wales. I am staggered at that response. We are looking at a cut of around 2% a year in revenue terms. As someone who has come to the House with a background in business, I know that if someone went to a small business in my constituency and said that it would have to save 2% a year from its revenue cost, it would say that it would do that as a matter of course. I fail to see why the Government should be excluded from the discipline that private businesses are employing in constituencies the length and breadth of Wales. Why should the Government be excluded from those efficiencies?