The Trading of Goods

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:06 pm on 20 June 2018.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:06, 20 June 2018

Well, I thank Jenny Rathbone for that follow-up question. In my answer to Neil Hamilton, I focused on the impact on food exporters of a hard Brexit, but she is absolutely right to point to the impact on food that we use in this country if we either were to have a hard Brexit that meant we were no longer able to import fresh food in a timely manner, or the sort of Brexit that Brexit hardliners point to, in which we would sacrifice environmental and food standards in order to try and earn a living across the world. Neither of those are acceptable to the Welsh Government, nor to people here in Wales. I was the health Minister during the period of the horse meat scandal, when we saw what can go wrong when you don't have proper standards—[Interruption.]—when you don't have proper standards to ensure that the food that ends up on people's plates here is of a proper—[Interruption.] I'm afraid there are no—[Interruption.]