Part of 3. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 3:14 pm on 11 December 2018.
I will be very interested to see what the modelling and the impact assessment brings forward. Because of the blunt tool that has been the basic payment scheme—and I've had many discussions with farmers over the past few months, many of whom tell me themselves that they don't think the basic payment scheme is enabling them to be resilient and productive in the way that they want to be—I would be very surprised if that were the case. I mentioned last week when I was in front of committee that I will be very flexible. So, let's see what comes out of the consultation, and what goes then forward into the White Paper before we produce the next stage of the policy.