, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
No, £337 million. That's what constantly gets pulled up from UK Government, saying, 'That's what the farming lump of the EU funding is', and, yes, that's what you're still going to have, but that would be EU tail-off funding alongside the money you've…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
We hear often from UK Government that the farming sector, the lump, is still £337 million. Is that because the EU element, the tail-off money, is attached to the money you've talked about?
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Yes. Fair point. My last question is probably to Lesley. Your evidence in committee notes similar concerns around replacements for farm funding, which is being offset against remaining EU funding. Can you outline the proposals for farm funding and the funding…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Okay. Well, that'll be a useful one for us to follow up, won't it, next week.
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Okay, thanks. A couple more questions. The 2014-20 programme was for seven years—we accept that. The shared prosperity fund will operate over three years. Have you had any indication from the UK Government about funding programmes once that fund ends? Because…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Yes. Okay, thanks.
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thinking back to the start of the last programme, 2014-20, when we were probably front of the pack, as you were suggesting, how would we have managed in that first year there? Can you recall that? I mean, it's a way back.
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
I've got another three questions. Witnesses from Wales Fiscal Analysis and the Institute for Fiscal Studies told us that, in practice, spending significant amounts early in the lifecycle of a programme might be difficult. How likely is it that Wales would be…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thanks for that. Shall I move on?
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Yes. The other—. No, I think you've covered what I asked in there.
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thanks for that. Another supplementary on this point. David Phillips—you've probably read some of the evidence—suggested that the Welsh Government had shared information about remaining EU funds with the UK Government. Can you explain what information was…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
So, wherever we cast those assumptions, that would have a different position, wouldn't it? How long do we go on making assumptions on what could have been, now we've left the EU?
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thanks for that. That was very clear. A couple of supplementaries, then, around some of this. In the written evidence, it is suggested that ESF and ERDF would have been worth around £1.4 billion between January 2021 and March 2025. How confident are you that…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
It's good to see you all and thanks ever so much for your time. I won't be making any political points at all, because I'm as much in the dark as everybody else, where we have different perspectives from different sides, and we need to—. And that's the basis…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister, for your response, and water quality is a significant issue for communities right across the country and Members in this Chamber. Only last week we were debating the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee's…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
3. What action is the Welsh Government taking to improve water quality in the River Usk catchment area? OQ58199
, Finance Committee
Group 5: Made affirmative procedure: minimum period for scrutiny (Amendments 3, 4)
The same.
, Finance Committee
Group 4: Expiry of the power under section 1 (Amendments 11, 6)
Yes, please.
, Finance Committee
Group 4: Expiry of the power under section 1 (Amendments 11, 6)
I only want to echo—and I'm not going to go over it—what Llyr said. He captured it very well for his amendment 11, and I will be fully supporting that position.
, Finance Committee
Group 3: Regulations that have retrospective effect (Amendments 1, 14, 17)
Yes, I do.
, Finance Committee
Group 3: Regulations that have retrospective effect (Amendments 1, 14, 17)
Thank you, Chair. I'll be speaking to amendments 14 and 17, tabled in my name. Amendments 14 and 17 amend section 3. They would still require the Welsh Ministers to publish a policy statement, but now provide that the power in section 1 may only be exercised…
, Finance Committee
Group 2: Extent of permitted changes to the Welsh Tax Acts (Amendments 12, 15, 16, 2, 18, 19)
Yes, I do.
, Finance Committee
Group 2: Extent of permitted changes to the Welsh Tax Acts (Amendments 12, 15, 16, 2, 18, 19)
Fifteen, 18 and 19.
, Finance Committee
Group 2: Extent of permitted changes to the Welsh Tax Acts (Amendments 12, 15, 16, 2, 18, 19)
Chair, in relation to that, then, as 12 has not been accepted, I'm content not to take 15, 18 and 19 to the vote. But I will be wanting to take 16 to the vote.
, Finance Committee
Group 2: Extent of permitted changes to the Welsh Tax Acts (Amendments 12, 15, 16, 2, 18, 19)
Thank you, Chair. And thank you, Minister, for your clarity and your commitment to make things clearer within the memorandum. I think that is welcome. What I've sought to do through these recommendations is to reflect those strong feelings that were felt from…
