Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:30 pm on 15 December 2021.

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Photo of Samuel Kurtz Samuel Kurtz Conservative 2:30, 15 December 2021

Diolch, Llywydd, and firstly, can I start by wishing the Minister a very merry Christmas and by thanking her for the honest and open dialogue that she and I have had in respect of this portfolio? 

Minister, I've raised the issue of unspent and misspent rural development plan money in the Chamber on several occasions already, and I would like to focus on the 'free tree for every household' scheme announced to great fanfare on 6 December by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change. Given that funding for tree planting lies within your portfolio, you hold the purse strings, as it were. So, can you provide details about the cost of this scheme, whether this is new money or reallocated money, and, finally, can you provide reassurances that, if this is reallocated money, that it is not being taken away from supporting the agricultural industry?