7. Statement by the Minister for Housing and Local Government: Preparing our public services in Wales for a 'no deal' Brexit

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:29 pm on 1 October 2019.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 5:29, 1 October 2019

Thank you for all the information you've given us about extra money for community cohesion, for the social housing grant, and the First Minister has announced money for food banks. But I suppose, looking at all these statements in the round, I just wonder where all the money's coming from, because Philip Hammond laid aside £26.5 billion to deal with Brexit, but his successor, Sajid Javid, has raided that by £13.8 billion for all sorts of pre-election promises. And we now know that £12 billion is going to have to be assigned to write off unpaid student debt. That leaves £800 million for the whole of the UK, which sounds a lot of money to you and me, but, obviously, in the round, that's not very much money.

So, given that you are in charge of civil contingencies, how are we going to cope, given the extent of the crisis that may ensue if we have a so-called 'clean break', otherwise known as a catastrophic 'no deal'?