Oral QuestionWales Office

what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the cost of living in Wales

Tabled: 13 January 2026Answered: 21 January 2026

Asked by

Dame Nia Griffith

LabourLlanelli

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Wales

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for Wales (Jo Stevens)

The Government are absolutely determined to lower the cost of living for families across Wales and the whole UK. That is why we are benefiting 69,000 children in Wales by scrapping the two-child limit. It is why we are slashing household energy bills by an average of £150 a year, and why we are again increasing the national minimum and living wage, building on the previous increase, which boosted the incomes of up to 160,000 workers in Wales.