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The petition went before the petitions committee who passed it onto Finance Minister Jane Hut who completely missed the point of the petition. Whether this was deliberate or accidental is unknown but it's not the first time they have missed the point of a petition I have raised.
First I'll post the reply that I had, well the reply that William Powell AM (Lib Dem) had who passed the petition on to finance minister Jane Hutt AM.
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Dear William Powell AM
The petition called for a report on "Government expenditure and revenue in Wales" and Jane Hutt's response is to say that they already publish how much they spend. This conveniently misses the point about revenue. The people of Wales need to know just how much revenue is being raised in Wales. And that includes revenue Wales is currently not credited with.
We in Wales are always told that we are not financially viable on our own and people believe this because they have no accurate figures to know one way or another. A GERW report would answer this question and would also be a great way of being able to measure how well the Welsh Government is doing, it would be a good barometer for the financial climate of Wales and act as a target that the Welsh Government's successes and failures could be measured against.
Perhaps those are just a few of the reasons why the point of this petition appears to have been missed so deliberately.
Regards
The petitions committee convened again on the 16th July and the following action was agreed.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to write to the Minister for Finance highlighting the petitioner’s correspondence and asking whether such revenue information will be released.
Now the point has been expressly pointed out it's quite hard to imagine how they can manage to miss it again. But I'm sure they'll find a way.
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