Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for European Transition (in respect of his law officer responsibilities) – in the Senedd at 2:39 pm on 20 October 2020.
Llywydd, the point I've made in my discussions with UK Government Ministers in relation to this is that, if the intention of those provisions is to enable the Governments to work together to level up the prosperity of Wales, then we as a Government will always wish to work together with other Governments, where that is for the benefit of Wales, and we will welcome additional money for Wales. But there is already a Government that has the powers that are set out in that clause in the Bill, and that Government is the Government of Wales—the Welsh Government. And so if the intention is—and I hope it very much is—that the UK Government wants to work in partnership with us in relation to the future prosperity of Wales, it is an odd way to go about that to seek powers that we already have and are capable of exercising in Wales.