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"the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales" takes over 12 billion to run?
by Chris2048 7y ago
"the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales" takes over 12 billion to run?
- arethuza 7y agoI think that's just the slightly unusual name for what replaced the "Welsh Office": https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-the-secretary-of-state-for-wales https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-the-se...
- Chris2048 7y agoI can see "welsh-assembly-government-2015" but that feeds into public services (NHS ect) too - the wales office is around 4 mil
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoSeems low. That office was formerly known as the Welsh Office. I'm not sure how it separates from or overlaps with the Welsh Assembly, who don't have tax raising powers like Scotland. Presumably spends on a number of Welsh schemes, infrastructure, projects, roads etc.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoWAG have had tax raising powers since April 2018, fwiw.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThanks, somehow I'd missed that. Didn't think it had gone beyond being discussed.
- pjc50 7y agoAlmost all of that goes to the devolved Welsh government. https://law.gov.wales/constitution-government/government-in-wales/finance/?lang=en#/constitution-government/government-in-wales/finance/?tab=overview&lang=en https://law.gov.wales/constitution-government/government-in-... i.e. it's not to "run the office", it's what central government transfers to Wales.