Rachel Reeves defends way Wales is funded by UK government

The Chancellor has defended the UK Government Fund Wales despite the call within his party for change.

The members of the Welsh Labor Party voted in June for the improvement of the system that determines what cash the Welsh government gets from the Treasury.

But Rachel Reeves said that the UK government already spends more per head in Wales in England than us “.

He said that disagreement within labor was “healthy” for democracy.

The Welsh Labor Conference agreed to call the barnet formula to overhell in June.

The formula determines the cash that the Welsh government is mostly based on the part of the population, and aims to maintain relative spending levels in various countries of the UK.

Although an element of Wales needs is taken into consideration, critics argue that it does not go far away.

The delegates at the conference agreed to call a proposal for a formula “on the basis of” fairness and an assessment “, based on what the country wanted. The Welsh government has also called for a long time to improve the formula.

Andrew Jefferies, director of Welsh Treasury, told a SenedD committee in March, “The UK government is not interested in improvement in any way as the system works”.

Reeves visited a Remediation Site in the Afan Valley to promote his government’s £ 118M spending on making coal tips safe.

Asked if she was listening to the call for more deviation, she said: “We already spend more per head in Wales as we do in England, and we will work with the Welsh Labor Government to ensure that we always correct that balance.

“In a review of expenses, a few months ago, we signed a record agreement for Wales in that expenditure review.

“But, in addition, the UK Labor Sarkar is also spending directly here in Wales, with investment in both railway projects and treatment of coal tips.”

UK government announced £ 445m for Wales Railways Earlier in June.

When it was kept for him that the government disagreed with the labor funding, he said: “The whole point of deviation is that from different parts of the country, even from the same party, can pursue different priorities. It is healthy in a democracy and is healthy under a deviation.

“If we had agreed to everything all the time, what would have been a matter of deviation?

Reeves met Welsh government Finance Minister Mark Drakeford on a site visit, and said that she would meet the first minister Elund Morgan later on Thursday.

The Chancellor said, “If you ask Elund, or you ask Mark, that in the last 15 years when Wales has been done best, I think the two will say today, because for the first time in a decade and a half, for the first time in a decade and a half, we have two governments that are working together to focus on the priorities of Welsh people,” said the Chancellor.

Drakeford said that “the basic responsibility for the Welsh government is to speak for things in Wales that matters in Wales here and it really does not matter who is in power in Westminster”.

He told BBC Wales that other countries of the UK which are under the formulas will need to be persuaded.

He said that it was a two -phase process:

“There are things that need to be done only for the barnet formula … to improve that formula and be fair.

“We can make the current system better not only with the UK government, but also with Scotland and Northern Ireland.”

The Finance Secretary said that the Welsh government has an ambition “for a new formula”, said the Finance Secretary.

“You have to gather a lot of political support not only from the UK government, but for Scotland, which does very well with the Barnet Formula and Northern Ireland, who have done very well in recent times.

“We are not going to do this, I believe, but this does not mean that we stop making the matter.”

Planed Simru spokesman for finance, Heled Faychan, said: “Despite the promise of two labor governments working together – labor in Wales has failed to use any perceived impact in Wales so that they fail to bring any tangible profit in power to bring any tangible profit of this partnership to power as they fail to bring any tangible benefits in power as they are right for Wales.”

Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dods said: “Chancellor’s statement today only shows how much Welsh Labor has affected his colleagues in London.”