, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Those discussions are ongoing.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Thank you for that information. Now, the written statement released alongside the LCM states that the Welsh Government and other devolved administrations wanted agricultural and fisheries subsidies to remain outside the scope of the subsidy control regime…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Thank you very much indeed for those introductions, and perhaps, then, I can just kick off with some very specific questions. Now, in your written statement that accompanied the Bill, you said that the UK Government's approach to subsidy control caused the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Welcome back to the meeting of the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee. We move on now to item 4 on our agenda, which is scrutiny of the Minister for Finance and Local Government. May I extend a very warm welcome to the Minister? Thank you to you and…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
And now we'll take a 10-minue break before our next session. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
There we are, Minister. Thank you very much indeed. Our session has now come to an end. Can I take this opportunity on behalf of the committee to thank you for your time this afternoon? It’s been very useful to have you giving evidence to us as a committee…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Diolch, Cefin. We've just got a few minutes left. Perhaps I can just ask you a very general question to round this session off. In five years’ time, when you look back, what will you have hoped to have achieved as a Minister and as a Government?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thank you, Vikki, and I know Cefin Campbell wants to come in on this matter. Cefin.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Okay. I'll move on then to Vikki Howells. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Do you want to ask another question?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Diolch, Cefin. If I can bring Carolyn Thomas to ask the next set of questions. My apologies to Carolyn; Carolyn, you wanted to come in on bovine TB, so by all means, ask that question as well as some of the other questions you've got for the Minister.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
If you're having trouble, Minister, perhaps one of your officials would just take over for a couple of minutes, if that's possible, or are you—?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thank you. Cefin.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Perhaps you could forward to us that information, then, as a committee, when that information is available to you. We'd be very grateful for that.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thank you very much. If I can now bring in Cefin Campbell. Cefin, you've got a set of questions.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thank you very much indeed. So, if we move on then to another area of policy, and I'll bring Vikki Howells in here. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Sorry, Sam. Just to be clear on this issue, then, can you just be clear and tell us that, obviously, as part of your policy you have been removing some infected badgers from severely affected farms over the last few years? And if you have, would you say that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Thanks very much, Sarah. Before I move on to Vikki Howells, I think Sam Kurtz wants to come in on this issue. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
You'd started talking about APHA, yes.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Yes, we did, we did.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
—and just tell us what you were talking about, if that's possible. Thanks.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Sorry to stop you there, Minister. We did lose you for probably about 20 seconds, so I don't know whether you just want to rewind a little bit—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
Sorry. Sorry to stop you there, Minister—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - General Ministerial Scrutiny
We seem to have lost you there, Minister. Can you hear us? No?
