{"id":65486,"date":"2015-12-15T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=982833892b624f63dc1456939003b2a7"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:04:50","slug":"press-release-lets-focus-on-delivery-wales-office-minister-tells-westminster-funding-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65486","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Let\u2019s focus on delivery, Wales Office Minister tells Westminster funding debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Increased funding for the Welsh Government announced in the Spending Review will help to \u201csupport investment projects that matter to the Welsh economy\u201d, Wales Office Minister Alun Cairns has said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cairns pointed to the increase in capital funding &#8211; \u00a3900 million over five years \u2013 as MPs debated the effect of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement on Wales in a Westminster Hall debate.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh Government block grant settlement will reach almost \u00a315 billion by 2019-20, the Wales Office Minister said, adding the UK Government had also reaffirmed Welsh Government borrowing powers of up to \u00a3500 million to help deliver the M4 relief road.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cairns told MPs that Wales would receive its full Barnett share of the HS2 rail development.  \u201cI want to scotch any concern about the Barnett consequentials for HS2 funding,\u201d Mr Cairns said.<\/p>\n<p>It is now time for debates on funding to \u201cfocus on delivery\u201d, the Minister added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased funding for the Welsh Government will help to &quot;support investment projects that matter to the Welsh economy&quot;, says Alun Cairns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}