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The Budget

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is not only reinforcing his credentials as a serial deficit denier, but painting a picture of economic fairyland. Yesterday, I looked at an independent report on the Welsh economy by Experian which says that the Wales economy was growing more slowly than the UK before the recession. In fact, pre-recession public sector employment was growing at 2.1% per annum and private sector employment was growing by only 0.6% per annum. Where was this miraculous growth going to come from?