HC Deb 05 May 1999 vol 330 cc421-2W
10. Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the earliest date on which the Government will reconsider the powers allowed to the Welsh Assembly to raise additional resources for public services. [82094]

Mr. Michael

The Government have no plans to alter the financing arrangements for the National Assembly as set out in the 1998 Government of Wales Act.

My priority is to make the Assembly deliver bread today not jam tomorrow. The first challenge to the Assembly is to prove itself by being imaginative and effective with the powers it has been given.