Wales faces cuts from Healey's Budget, country's ministers claim
The UK and Welsh governments have traded accusations about the state of funding for Wales' public services after the chancellor's Budget.
Wales' finance minister Elin Jones said an extra £450m over three years for the country worked out at a "real-terms cut" because it was below the rate of inflation.
But UK Treasury minister Torsten Bell said that was only because Wales had already been given "shed loads" of extra funding in a one-off payment last year.
During his speech to Parliament on Wednesday, UK Chancellor John Healey urged the Welsh government to implement its own £100 "household energy payment" that he announced for council taxpayers in England.
Healey said 20 million homes in council tax bands A-D would get the payment, and he called on Welsh ministers to do the same for Wales.
The UK government said Wales would get an extra £450m over three years to add to the Welsh government's £27bn budget, which covers public services including the NHS.
The Plaid Cymru-led Welsh government said the plans risked the "kind of spending reductions Wales experienced during the worst years of Tory cuts".
Its finance minister Jones had set out a list of requests, including rail, relaxing borrowing powers, more money for day to day spending and help to facilitate a child poverty project ahead of Wednesday's announcement.
After it, she said Wales had been "ignored again".
"This is a real-terms cut dressed up as a windfall," she said.
"Today's budget hasn't shifted the dial. Our fiscal position is worse than it was before the chancellor stood up, and that has direct consequences for our own budget on 17 November."
She warned of "tough choices" and needing to drive "further efficiency across the public sector, so that we can sustain investment in the areas that matter most to people in Wales".
Extra funding on public services in England triggers more cash for the Welsh government - and Labour MP Bell said most of the £450m of extra cash for Wales was a result of the energy payment plan and lower business rates in England.
In briefing to journalists, Bell said the Welsh government's budget was rising in real terms.
He said: "That's only a real-terms cut if you think it's bad that the Welsh government was given shed loads of extra money last year.
"When they say there's a real terms cut, what they mean is that when [special educational needs] debts were written off in England and there was a lump sum payment made for Wales."
The Welsh government received £322m extra from the UK government because of special educational needs in 2025/26
Healey's £100 a household energy payment for England aimed at tackling the cost of living crisis was among the measures in the Budget package announced on Wednesday.
The chancellor said the support costing £2.6bn would see money given to the governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as a consequence of the spending for England.
Healey said he wanted the nations to use the cash in a similar way, calling on the devolved administrations to "do the same and give people of all nations in the UK breathing space on their energy bills this winter".
It is thought that between 70 to 75% of Welsh household are in the A-D council tax band.
It is up to the Welsh government to decide how to spend the money.
The Welsh government has been asked to comment.
A 4% tariff on kerosene was also temporarily removed.
He said he was giving Britain "some breathing space on the cost of living" at a time when "global uncertainties and pressures are swirling worldwide".