How will the UK budget affect the Senedd?

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Senedd Members are giving their two cents on what they want to see in the upcoming UK budget. The Tories and Plaid Cymru are both calling for a shopping list of issues, and Eluned Morgan has some ideas too.

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00:00The upcoming UK budget is the talk of politics at the moment and will be a huge turning point

00:06for Labour in Westminster, and even on this side of the M4.

00:10Given recent events in Welsh politics, Tory leader Darren Miller knows what he wants from

00:14Rachel Reeves and her budget, but what does the First Minister want to see?

00:19Nathan Gill, a former member of this parliament, who was sentenced last week to ten and a half

00:24years in prison for accepting bribes to make pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.

00:31We need to protect and defend our democracy and our country from Russian interference and

00:36threats and that's why I've backed increased spending on defence and our intelligence services

00:42and I hope very much for more in tomorrow's UK budget.

00:46Can you tell us what are you hoping for in tomorrow's UK budget and what have you specifically

00:51requested in the budget for Wales?

00:54Well, thanks very much and I'd like to endorse the sense of anger at what Nathan Gill got

01:03up to.

01:04I think we're all appalled.

01:06In terms of the budget, look, what we know is going to be a challenging budget.

01:11The great thing is actually what we've seen is delivery on some key areas already.

01:16We have seen the biggest investment we have seen in a generation into North Wales with the

01:22announcement at Wilva.

01:24We've got an announcement not just on one AI growth zone in North Wales but another one

01:30in South Wales.

01:31I think that is something to be welcomed.

01:33We're hoping that we'll hear tomorrow about a £10 million support for compound semiconductors

01:41in Wales.

01:42But there are a whole load of other areas where I've been clear with the Chancellor where

01:46we'd like to see some changes.

01:50Darren Millers says that the First Minister should be asking for more.

01:53After all, there are Labour governments in Cardiff Bay and Westminster that could be working

01:56together and he has a shopping list of different issues that should come up in the budget.

02:00Have you asked for the family farmstacks to be scrapped?

02:04Yes.

02:05Have you demanded from the Chancellor the money that we were shortchanged by as a result of

02:14the increase in the employer's national insurance last year?

02:17Have you asked for the consequential funding from HS2 and the Oxford to Cambridge rail line?

02:23Have you asked for the reinstatement of the cash for the North Wales mainline electrification,

02:29which was promised by the previous UK Government?

02:32Because if you haven't asked, if you haven't asked for any of those things, you're clearly

02:37not standing up for the people of Wales.

02:40Well, I tell you what, already this Government, the UK Labour Government, has delivered far

02:47more to Wales than your Government did in years.

02:52We had the highest uplift in our budget since the Senate began.

02:57We haven't replied to that.

03:01I am not saying that.

03:02Could you take it?

03:04I am not saying that.

03:06You're the only one.

03:08So, when we're talking to Chelsea, then you are thinking about Panay and the US

03:11of the UK government.

03:13I have no idea.

03:14Go ahead.

03:16Go ahead.

03:18Go ahead.

03:19Go ahead.

03:20Go ahead.

03:22Go ahead.

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