Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 6 December 2016.
This would mean, of course, the Welsh Government taking over payments for farmers in England, because we are far superior as a payments agency and have been for many, many years in terms of payment and in terms of speed of payment, and the last thing Welsh farmers, I suspect, would want would be to see the Rural Payments Agency delivering farming subsidies in Wales. There have been issues over cross-border farms; he is right. The reason for that is because the RPA have been slow in delivering data to us. There are better ways of doing things, that much is true, but I think it would send a chill down the spine of most Welsh farmers if they found they would have to face the same delays as their colleagues have faced in England.