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Tuesday, October 07, 2008, 09:00
First Minister Rhodri Morgan said there was a danger of Wales losing out if it did not fight its corner in a debate about distributing cash to the UK's nations and regions.
The Assembly Government has commissioned a team of three economists in an attempt to make sure complaints about English taxpayers subsidising Scotland do not leave Wales on the sidelines.
"None of that has got anything to do with Wales, but it's highly dangerous to Wales if the debate is framed in those terms," Mr Morgan said.
He said his administration needed to gather credible evidence to back up its suspicion that far from doing well out of the Barnett formula — the Whitehall mechanism that decides how much the devolved nations get — Wales is actually short-changed.
"We don't believe we are over-funded. We believe we are probably, in some sort of gut-feeling, under-funded."
The Assembly building in Cardiff Bay
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