Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 30 January 2019.
Absolutely, and the Member is well aware that we were promised that Wales wouldn’t be a single penny worse off as a result of Brexit, and it is absolutely imperative that we hold the UK Government to that commitment. David Rees is right: there's a huge amount of focus on the shared prosperity fund because of the importance of it to our communities, and the investment that it makes, but there are so many other programmes and funds that we do benefit from—so, the steel research programme, which has been referred to, is one of them, but also a number of smaller programmes. And we really do need to ensure that we continue to have access to a wide range of programmes, a wide range of networks, and the wide range of innovation funds that we have at the moment. I will certainly be pressing that case, as I know my colleague the Brexit Minister will be in the meetings that he attends very regularly, and the First Minister's very regular, now, meetings with the Prime Minister.