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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Steven Morris and Severin Carrell

Welsh government will cut budgets to maintain health and rail services

Mark Drakeford, the first minister of Wales.
Mark Drakeford, the first minister of Wales, says: ‘There simply is not enough money to do all the things that need to be done.’ Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

The Welsh government has announced wide-ranging cuts across almost all departments to help prop up the country’s struggling health service and rail system.

It has also taken the unprecedented step of asking the UK Treasury for permission to switch funds from its capital to its revenue budget to ease the cash crisis, and intends to use up about half of the money it has in its reserves to cope.

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