The government's capital expenditure plans, packaged as the Investment Strategy, have largely been maintained but not on a scale that could compensate for the fall in house building.
Partly to compensate for the scale of economic upheaval in Wales, Thatcher's government enacted a number of changes that did much - indeed more than any previous administration - to buttress the fortunes and status of the Welsh language.
And the court has unequivocally rejected any sliding scale approach that previously allowed strong evidence of materiality to compensate for weak evidence of intent to deceive.