Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister (in respect of his Brexit Minister responsibilities) – in the Senedd at 2:42 pm on 22 January 2020.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 2:42, 22 January 2020

I thank Dai Lloyd for that question and I welcome him to his new role. I have spoken briefly with the Secretary of State in relation to another matter in the context of a larger meeting, but not specifically about that point. We still await, as I mentioned in my earlier question, details in relation to the acknowledgment, effectively, that those funds are the subject of devolved powers. It's a very simple point to agree and to acknowledge. The point simply is that the equivalent sums currently received through Wales should be passed on to the Welsh Government by way of an adjustment to the block grant and at the full disposal of the Welsh Government to be able to deploy those funds in the way the Member's question implies, with other partners in Wales—so, with local government, which is itself a significant investor in the jobs and infrastructure that benefit from that sort of investment. And that is the opportunity, certainly important from a devolution point of view, but it's also important from the point of view of being able to integrate that investment with other investments that the Welsh Government makes.