Ministers decided against improving nurses' pay offer to protect NHS spending, Mark Drakeford says.
Mr Drakeford was asked if his government was abdicating responsibility for public sector pay in Wales by arguing it could not make a better offer without extra cash from Westminster.
"I think we can only be accountable for the decisions that genuinely lie in our hands and we should be held accountable," he said."We could've taken the £120m out of the money available to run the health service and to pay nurses that money instead."Now, you could say we should've done that. We chose not to, we're accountable for that decision.
One of Welsh Labour's main manifesto commitments for the 2021 Senedd election was to pay social care workers the so-called
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