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Wales in brief: December 3, 2024
A general view of Nant Morlais in Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, where a sinkhole continues to open up having forced people to be evacuated from their homes. Picture date: Monday December 2, 2024

COVID COST: The Welsh government has spent £3.7 million on external legal advice to the First Minister, ministers and officials giving evidence to Britain’s Covid Inquiry, a ministerial question has revealed.

The Cardiff Bay administration racked up the cost despite having an in-house legal team.

A Welsh government spokesperson said: “The advisers provide the additional specialist resource necessary to ensure our obligations to the inquiry are met.”

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