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Lord Wigley (PC)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 1 June 2026

Debate

Devolved Public Services: Funding

Contribution

My Lords, is the Minister aware of the huge controversy in Wales arising from the UK Government’s refusal to provide Barnett consequentials for capital rail projects such as HS2 and the Oxford to Cambridge rail link, on the spurious pretext that such south-east of England schemes are of direct benefit to Wales? To open a new chapter on major project funding, will the Government please consider co-funding two urgent capital road projects of direct benefit to both Wales and England: namely, the tackling of the M4 bottleneck at Newport, which affects the strategic road link between London, southern Wales and Ireland; and secondly, the need for a new road bridge across the Menai Straits to cope with the additional traffic associated with the Wylfa nuclear project? Will the Government be open to discussing those matters?

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