Oral Answers to Questions

David Simmonds Excerpts

Wednesday 16th December 2020 Commons Chamber

[David T. C. Davies]

As I have just said to my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton), we would welcome the Welsh Government working in tandem with the UK Government to bring in a tiered system, so that in areas with a low incidence of the virus fewer restrictions are put in place. I believe that is an approach the Welsh Government are finally going to adopt. We look forward to sitting down and working with them.

[David Simmonds (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) (Con)]

What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of fiscal support available to the Welsh Government in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

[The Secretary of State for Wales (Simon Hart)]

The Government have provided a record amount of support to the Welsh Government, including a funding guarantee of an additional £5 billion this financial year. The Welsh Government will also receive an additional £1.3 billion next year, including £770 million to tackle covid-19.

[David Simmonds]

What further pressure can the Secretary of State bring to bear on Cardiff Bay to ensure that the funding going to the Welsh Government as a consequence of the Barnett consequentials formula finds its way to frontline services and is not absorbed in the bureaucratic costs of the Lib-Lab Government in Cardiff Bay?