The UK Government's Fiscal Statement

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 4 October 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:41, 4 October 2022

Well, Llywydd, a fortnight ago, I welcomed the fact that there was to be help for people with their energy costs. What I don't welcome—I said it then, and I'll say it again now—is the fact that the price of that Conservative Party package will be paid in the debts that will lie with our children and our grandchildren to pick up, when there was a choice to take back the unlooked-for, enormously inflated profits being made by companies who will now see all those profits protected, protected by the public on whose shoulders the consequence of that party's decisions will be levied. I'm glad of the fact that there is help to be had; I do think that it's being done in exactly the wrong way.