Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:04 pm on 20 September 2017.
I think uncertainty for the future is probably one of the biggest understatements I’ve heard this year. At the moment, there’s a black hole after 2022. We don’t know what funding we are going to receive from the UK Government. They haven’t been very clear about that. They did promise before the EU referendum that we would receive every penny that we are having currently, so we are holding them to that. You will be very aware that I work very closely with my three other counterparts across the UK. We’ve got our next quadrilateral meeting on Monday, in London. It will be the first one that Michael Gove has attended since his appointment back in June. So, these are all issues that, obviously, are ongoing, but I’ve made it very clear that I cannot see a time when we’ll be in a position not to support our farming industry, so we need to make sure that the Tory Government hold very firm in their promises to us.