Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 3 October 2018.
Thank you very much. That’s what I suspected: no assessments and no intention of doing that until the results of the consultation are collated. Now, it’s clear that a fair bit of officials' time and Government money has already been invested in developing the proposals contained within 'Brexit and our land'. So, isn’t this process, the Government process of developing policy, entirely flawed? Because the risk is that you will reach the next stage after you’ve completed the consultation and find that the proposals are damaging to the Welsh language and other areas, such as the rural economy, and therefore you will have to drop them, and then you will have wasted everyone's time and Government resources and will have unnecessarily caused anxiety among rural communities.