Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 3. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 3:12 pm on 11 December 2018.

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Photo of Lesley Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Labour 3:12, 11 December 2018

Well, I don't agree with you, because we haven't brought forward the White Paper yet; we'll be doing that in the spring. If I'd have done the modelling and the impact assessment before we went to consultation, we would have been criticised for pre-empting. It's much better to have those 12,000 responses we've had to 'Brexit and our land' on the two schemes that we're bringing forward. So, the economic resilience scheme—that's around food production. It's to make sure we make our farm businesses resilient and sustainable, exactly what they want—they want them to be prosperous. And in relation to the public goods scheme, we want to reward farmers, which is not at the moment being done, around the public goods that they're bringing forward—that wonderful air quality, soil quality, water quality, the flood prevention they're doing. So, when we do bring forward the White Paper in the spring, that modelling and that impact assessment will have been done.