devolution

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said the £1.5bn package was "the biggest real terms increase in a settlement for Northern Ireland since devolution started".

The Welsh government will receive an extra £1.7bn next April, in what the Labour chancellor called the "largest real-terms funding increase since devolution".

Ministers in Cardiff Bay have argued the problems pre-dated devolution and suggested it could cost between £500-£600m across Wales.

Reeves, formally setting out her spending plans for the first time, said it would be the largest real-terms funding settlement since devolution.

"He took devolution, he supported devolution, but I think he took a very pragmatic approach and I think that is what has been missing from in the period he left office in 2014."