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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you, Peter. Mike, welcome. You're just in time. There you are. Excellent.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
No. We'll go on to Peter then, please.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
That's fine. So, thank you, Rhianon, unless you've got another—.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
And in what way would—. How would that happen, as in, how would the decision be made as to who bears that cost?
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes, please.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes, please, and question 9, please.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Lovely, thank you.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Of course, yes. I'm just trying to work out your thought process and your modelling and to get some confidence behind the numbers, if you like, of the way that you've come up with your estimates and that side of things. So, anything like that would be of use…
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
But you've responded to those, so you've, hopefully, learnt how to respond to those things, so is there some thinking going into how you might respond to an outbreak of something or an economic—? I'm assuming that there's some thinking gone in in the…
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Rhianon, if I may. On that, the unknown unknowns if you like, we've been through crises in the past; we've been through foot and mouth, we've been through bovine spongiform encephalopathy, we've been through lots of different—. What learnings have you taken…
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much. Peter. No, Rhianon, sorry. Rhianon.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Do you know roughly when in the year that will be?
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, as you then develop, as this process goes on, I am assuming that you will be bringing back updated EMs and updated RIAs as it goes along.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, what are your contingencies? Have you got any?
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. The regulatory impact assessment mentions the assumed budget is dependent on future funding settlements from HM Treasury and the Welsh Government process. What engagement have you had with HM Treasury concerning these funding settlements, and what…
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I think the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee heard that the funding for the common agriculture policy was approximately £370 million. If the rural development plan pillar 2 budget for the Welsh Government matched that funding, why £278 million and…
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
And you're fairly confident that this £278 million is as accurate as it can be at the moment, and that you can deliver within that figure.
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Right, okay. So, from this committee's point of view, obviously there are a lot of moving parts there. It's making scrutiny difficult for us because we don't know what we're scrutinising. So, what sort of mechanisms have you got in place to be able to inform…
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Wonderful. Thank you very much for coming in this morning. We're looking at the financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill, so, if it's okay with you, we'll crack on with some questions. Initially, I wanted to explore the assumed annual budget for…
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Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, we can move on to item 3. Bore da, croeso. It's good to see you. Thank you for making yourself available, Minister. Could you introduce yourself and your officials, please?
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Papers to note
Timescales and the fact that it's a curtailed process, so it's making sure that scrutiny happens properly. So, we'll be writing back to the Minister and probably Business Committee and the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee as well on that. So…
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Papers to note
Can we move, then, on to item 2? Item 2 is papers to note. Has anybody got any points to raise on any of these? The only one I had, if nobody else has, is that I will probably be writing back on paper to note 3, just in response to the timescales around the…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you. Great, okey-doke.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee this morning. We're going to be moving on now to look at the Agriculture (Wales) Bill, but before that we're going to take the papers to note. But, first of all, does anybody have any interests…
