Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 3 October 2018.
The Member seems very keen to tie two together—the Welsh proposals and the UK Government proposals. If you look really hard, you will see that there are many differences—food production, for a start. We've put food production at the heart of the economic resilience scheme. I absolutely want to keep active farmers on the land. I've made that very clear. You ask whether I will reconsider. It's out to consultation. We've already had, I think, about 3,000 responses up to last week. I'm very competitive. I want to see more responses than DEFRA had, pro rata. So, I really want to encourage people to put their views forward. But, the whole point of this exercise is to keep our farmers farming. We need them to do that, and that's what will happen with our policy.