<p>The Green Budget Findings</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:30 pm on 15 February 2017.

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Photo of Neil McEvoy Neil McEvoy Plaid Cymru 1:30, 15 February 2017

Thanks, Cabinet Secretary. You are right, the green budget talks about tax rises or cuts that we face, and a very difficult future in Wales. But one thing we could do to help would be to stop money leaving Wales. I’ll give an example. In Cardiff West, the Earl of Plymouth is about to make roughly £1.4 billion from land sales that will destroy the countryside there. So, the question is: why don’t you legislate, so that Cardiff council, and other councils like it, can quickly reclassify land as agricultural land? The Welsh Government could then buy it—in this instance, for roughly £7 million. And, in this case, you could stop £1 billion leaving Wales, whilst securing the asset.