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Comprehensive Spending Review

Indeed, Mr Owen, I apologise. I was so carried away by the right hon. Gentleman’s intervention that I forgot what I was trying to argue—not for the first time. I want to talk about the exasperation of small and medium-sized businesses in west Wales. I also want to touch on the exasperation of ordinary voters, who possibly supported the Labour party over many years but were driven, much against their better judgment in some respects, to desert the party of their choice because of the sheer lack of progress in important areas such as education and health. For most of the voters in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, it is no good at all turning around to say that some things are devolved, some are not and some might be a little devolved—as far as they are concerned, they just want good, honest and transparent government, and they do not really care where it comes from.