Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 10 February 2010.
Why is the Treasury forcing the Welsh Assembly Government to put the £97 million that Finance Wales has loaned to small businesses on their balance sheet and thus, in effect, capping the amount that can be lent, given that the Government here have been borrowing off balance sheet for years? Is that not another classic example of one rule for Wales and another for Whitehall, with Welsh people being penalised as a result?