5. 4. Statement: EU Funding

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:51 pm on 11 October 2016.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 3:51, 11 October 2016

Dirprwy Lywydd, can I say how much I agree with both points that the Member made? I emphasise in my statement the timescale for leaving and the importance of that in relation to the current round of structural funds, but the Member emphasises not simply the speed but the shape of that exit—the nature of it. And while we remain in close dialogue with the United Kingdom Government to make sure that Wales’s interests are fully understood and articulated to them, it also remains the case that there is no secret plan in the drawer that is slowly being revealed to us. We continue to deal with a Westminster and Whitehall end where the infighting, the lack of clarity, the impossibility, it seems, of trying to arrive at a single perspective, which would govern the speed, scale and nature of exit, remains hugely problematic.