Welsh Government's Draft Budget

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 8 January 2020.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 1:32, 8 January 2020

I'm grateful for the question, and, as I was able to set out in my statement on the draft budget yesterday, additional funding has been found for next year to provide funding to support communities at particular danger in terms of climate change and flooding, but that's on top of the additional funding that we're putting through our innovative housing programme for coastal risk management. And that's a programme worth £150 million over the course of this Assembly, which has been previously announced by my colleague the Minister for Environment and Rural Affairs. The schemes that we support are clearly the ones where the evidence base says the most need is there, but obviously I'd be happy to have conversations with Members if they have got particular concerns about areas within their own constituencies.