Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:32 pm on 20 November 2019.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 2:32, 20 November 2019

I think that's an incredibly disappointing answer, if I may say, Minister. You've been the Minister for international relations now for almost 12 months. It took you more than seven months to actually produce a draft strategy for consultation, and now you're telling us that you're going to delay the publication of the final strategy until the new year. You say it's because of the general election, and yet we've seen announcements from other members of the Welsh Government on matters that, frankly, are completely non-devolved, such as broadband just last week, and yet you say that you can't publish your own international strategy and therefore we can't hold you to account for your delivery against the priorities that you have set out. Now, if you're not able to share the strategy with us at the moment, perhaps you can tell us what your current thinking is as a Welsh Government with regard to the engagement that you propose having in the future with developing nations around the world.