<p>The Impact of European Structural Funding (Islwyn)</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 19 October 2016.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:20, 19 October 2016

Well, the impact would be the one that I’m sure the Member would anticipate: that those investments that we are able to make, which help to shape the futures for individuals and communities and to secure the long-term success of the Welsh economy, would be set back if we did not have the money that is currently guaranteed to us as a result of our membership of the European Union. It would be a strange message, I’m sure she would agree, to take to members of her constituency if it were to turn out that Wales did less well out of its membership of the United Kingdom than it does out of its membership of the European Union.