Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:56 pm on 5 February 2020.
Thank you, finance Minister, for that answer.
Obviously, in April there was the declaration by the Welsh Government of the climate change emergency. My colleague Nick Ramsay highlighted that your comments yesterday were saying that this was a green budget. Natural Resources Wales, which is your own regulator for many of the things in the environmental field, has had a flatline budget, which in effect is a real-terms cut. Can you confirm whether you did receive any representations from the environment Minister to try and secure a real-terms increase in NRW's budget, or haven't you received any representations? And if there is to be no increase in its budget, how do you expect Natural Resources Wales to undertake the functions you've placed on it?