MS for North Wales Speaking during the Debate in the Welsh Parliament on the Welsh Government’s Final Budget 2021-22, I said “After more than two decades of Labour Budgets since devolution, Wales still has the lowest wage and employment levels, and highest proportion of low-paid jobs in Britain, and the lowest prosperity levels and long-term pay growth, and highest poverty rate, of all UK Nations. We needed a Budget to fix the foundations and build a more secure and prosperous economy for the future. Instead, what we got was a Budget that papered over the cracks rather than rebuilding the foundations, a Budget that shows this Welsh Government do not understand what went wrong in the last two decades or what is needed in the next”.