Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Wales Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Virginia Crosbie Excerpts
Wednesday 19th April 2023

(1 year ago)

Commons Chamber
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David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies
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If I ever decide that I want to have lessons in sound management of public finances, I probably will not be asking the Scottish National party. The Welsh Labour Government have had a real-terms increase in spending over the spending review period, and it is for others to answer for why they are unable to deliver the same level of healthcare and education, why they are not building roads, and why they are spending the money they are getting on paying the legal bills of asylum seekers.

Virginia Crosbie Portrait Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Môn) (Con)
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Under this UK Government, my constituency has been awarded £17 million from the levelling-up fund to regenerate Holyhead, £20 million to refurbish the Holyhead Gateway, £16 million from the shared prosperity fund, £2.7 million from the culture recovery fund, hundreds of new jobs at the inland border facility, £175 million for the RAF Valley, and now Anglesey has freeport status, with the potential to create 13,000 jobs and £1 billion to the economy. Does the Secretary of State agree that this Conservative UK Government are determined to level up places such as Anglesey in north Wales that have been forgotten by Labour in Cardiff—

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. Can we try to help? I want to get more people in, and the only way I can do that is with shorter questions.