The Welsh Labour Government have published their Final Budget for the 2025-26 financial year.
Labour has no majority in the Senedd and so needs at least one opposition vote to pass their budget, with Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds expected to allow this budget to pass.
Welsh Conservatives have been heavily critical, following the draft budget, of significantly increased spending on ‘Central Services and Administration’ (£117 million in just two years) as well as significant spending on agency staffing in the Welsh NHS.
Commenting, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Sam Rowlands MS said:
“Labour’s budget will not fix Wales. It will not address the people’s priorities, with woeful outcomes like excessive waiting lists and low educational standards speaking for themselves.
“Whether it’s Plaid or the Lib Dems propping Labour up, it is clear that only the Welsh Conservatives have consistently opposed Labour’s damaging spending plans.
“Welsh Conservatives would instead focus on putting money back into Welsh people’s pockets, starting with creating a Welsh Winter Fuel Allowance to replace the payment cut by Keir Starmer, funded by slashing inflated spending on Welsh Government bureaucrats.”
