Devolved Administrations: Financial Flexibility

Lord Eatwell Excerpts

Tuesday 8th November 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Sassoon]

My Lords, a lot of factors have to be taken into account in setting expenditure for the devolved Administrations, not least our favourite Barnett formula, but the fact remains that expenditure on a head-count basis in Wales will, in the present period, be some 12 per cent higher than the per head expenditure in the United Kingdom.

[Lord Eatwell]

My Lords, was the Welsh Assembly consulted before this decision was made?

[Lord Sassoon]

My Lords, the United Kingdom Parliament—this House and another place—was not consulted before an awful lot of spending decisions were taken. That is the way that Governments make spending decisions.