Part of 10. 9. Stage 3 of the Landfill Disposals Tax (Wales) Bill – in the Senedd at 6:19 pm on 20 June 2017.
Very briefly, just to say that we, on these benches, are very supportive of the principle underpinning amendment 52 in the name of Nick Ramsay, namely to ensure that a communities fund works for the benefit of communities, but, on this occasion, we will abstain on the vote because we do think it’s important that we keep the Cabinet Secretary to his word that he wants to collaborate with the committee before the summer and to bring the relevant organisations at a community level into the negotiations as to how we can take forward the community fund for the future. We have nothing against the principle underpinning Nick Ramsay’s amendment, but we didn’t want to limit, at this stage, what we could do in future with better negotiation between all the parties involved.