Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister (in respect of his Brexit Minister responsibilities) – in the Senedd at 2:22 pm on 20 March 2019.
I thank the Member for that supplementary. I know there are many organisations in her constituency that have benefited from EU funding, including the Blackwood Miners' Institute and other organisations. We've been consistent in our insistence that the UK Government should deliver on its promise that Wales would not lose a penny of the income it receives currently from the EU after we leave, and that's just as true for arts and cultural funding as it is for any other aspect of the current programmes.
It's currently unclear whether, for example, in relation to Creative Europe and other programmes, we will continue as the UK to be eligible for that in the longer term. In the event of a deal, it's possible projects could continue, but it's not at all clear in the context of no deal that there will be access to those programmes in the future. The Welsh Government, of course, provides significant funding to the arts through the Arts Council of Wales, and they've undertaken their own analysis of the impact of Brexit on the arts sectors in Wales. And some of it's about funding, of course, but other aspects of it, equally important in many ways, are around European collaboration, artist mobility, and the impact of tariff and border regulations on cross-border arts and cultural partnerships across the European Union.