A SOMBRE First Minister’s Questions marked today marked the 59th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, in which 116 children died when a colliery spoil tip slid onto Pantglas School.

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said Labour was backtracking on gaining funding for Wales from the HS2 high-speed rail line in England and the devolution of justice.

First Minister Eluned Morgan said that her party had consistently campaigned to end the injustice of rail underfunding and that the “UK Labour Party has started to correct that injustice.

“We’ve been clear in the Welsh government that we would like to see the devolution of youth justice,” she said, adding that Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca Davies had had constructive engagement with the Lord Chancellor.

The Plaid leader continued to push his election campaigning on fair funding and said that a Westminster minister, Lord Peter Hendy, had told a Senedd committee that no changes to the Barnett formula were being proposed.

Ms Morgan said Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford and the Westminster government had agreed to look at the Barnett formula.

Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds asked whether “the government in London was listening to you on scrapping the two-child benefit cap.

“The Budget is coming up and we’ve heard that there may be further cuts to welfare benefits as well,” Ms Dodds said.

Ms Morgan replied that her government had been consistent in its request for an end to the two-child benefit cap.

She urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to scrap the cap and said: “This would follow the red Welsh way of approaching politics.”