Wales’s First Minister effectively backed more spending on bureaucrats over Welsh pensioners
At First Minister’s Questions (FMQs) today, the Leader of the Welsh Conservatives challenged the First Minister to condemn her Labour colleagues in Westminster for their Winter Fuel Payment cut.
The Welsh Conservatives are committed to funding a Welsh Winter Fuel Allowance to restore the payment to pensioners in Wales. It will cost around £100 million and can be paid for by reducing the Central Services and Administration Budget to 2023-24 levels (a saving of £117 million).
The First Minister effectively backed more spending on bureaucrats over Welsh pensioners and, while following a scripted response, erroneously claimed that the Welsh Conservative policy was unfunded.
Commenting after his exchange with the First Minister, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Darren Millar MS said:
“Labour has been an unmitigated disaster for pensioners in Wales and across the UK.
“Rachel Reeves shamefully cut the Winter Fuel Payment, but Labour in Wales failed to stand up to them and this cruel decision.
“The Welsh Conservatives propose reducing Labour’s spending on bureaucrats, their Central Services Budget, to levels seen two years ago to fund a Welsh Winter Fuel Allowance. Sadly, the First Minister chose to back bureaucrats over Welsh pensioners.”
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