Commenting on the local government budget allocation and the news that council tax could go up by as much as 10% in parts of Wales, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for North Wales, Darren Millar MS, said:

“The Labour Government has, yet again, given North Wales a rough deal with lower council funding settlements than local authorities in South Wales.  

"Cardiff, Newport and Swansea are getting more than twice the increase in funding of most North Wales councils, nearly all of which sit at the bottom of the funding league table.

“Labour Ministers should ditch their shameful partiality, commission an independent review of the council funding formula and invest millions more in our public services instead of pet projects like increasing the number of politicians in Cardiff Bay."