Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether Barnett consequential payments will be made to the Welsh Government arising from additional expenditure in England in the education sector on safeguarding buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.

As our immediate support is being funded from existing unallocated budgets there will be no additional Barnett consequentials. The devolved administrations have already received funding through the Barnett formula at Spending Review 2021.

We are committed to working collaboratively with our devolved administration counterparts on this issue, and the Barnett formula will continue to apply in the usual way to any change in UK Government departmental budgets.