Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:56 pm on 8 June 2016.
European structural funding won’t be there at all at the end of this month if things go the way that I would not want them to. There is no guarantee at all that that money would be made up by London. We know that our farmers receive £260 million a year. That is not money we have that we can give, but that money nevertheless is provided to our farmers. There is no way that the south-east Wales metro can go ahead unless we can have access to European money or an equivalent pot. I do not believe that the UK Government will make up, penny for penny, pound for pound, the money that the people of Wales would lose as result of leaving the EU.