Farm support and the Sustainable Farming Scheme

Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…that case. In response to a previous answer, Sam, I made clear our satisfaction that the future of the sustainable farming scheme for Wales would not be affected by any of the changes within the UK budget. We made that clear representation and I'm glad it's been heard.

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Samuel KurtzConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…which was completely unnecessary. Previously, I've asked you and your predecessor, with regard to the sustainable farming scheme, to write to the Treasury to ask for a quantifiable amount of money that would be needed to deliver the scheme in Wales. Using the Bank of England’s interest rate…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…with the UK Government to make sure that Welsh farmers joining the work that we're still doing on the sustainable farming scheme are not disadvantaged in any way by the agricultural property relief proposals. So, we're very keen to make sure that that is there as well. So, meanwhile, I would also…

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Llyr GruffyddPlaid

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…Wales is very different. I’ve actually been looking at some of the Welsh Government’s own figures. The sustainable farming scheme’s economic impact assessment, published at the end of last year, considers the farms responsible for around 84 per cent of Wales’s total utilised agricultural area, 89…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…last week and spoke not only on the platform, taking questions on this and many other matters, like the sustainable farming scheme and many other things, but I also spoke to farmers directly about it as well. I have farmers in my extended family as well who I’ve also had discussions with. They will…

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Tom GiffardConservative

12 November 2024, Plenary

Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2023-24

…else regarding the policies of the Welsh Government that the report has mentioned, particularly the SFS, and I'll finish on this, Dirprwy Lywydd. The report says, 'The Government’s impact assessment estimated that there would be a significant deterioration in the size of the rural economy and a…

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Julie JamesLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

…in Wales, and as it happens, the Cabinet only yesterday had a long and involved discussion about the sustainable farming scheme, which my colleague the Deputy First Minister has been working on across the farming communities of Wales for a very considerable time, over a large number of months. It’s…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…the disastrous effects of Brexit; the long, dark shadow of bovine TB; and ongoing uncertainty about the SFS. They are all taking their toll financially and emotionally. It's an industry in Wales made up of families, many of whom are struggling. Will the First Minister undertake an immediate…

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Paul DaviesConservative

23 October 2024, Plenary

Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect

…We know that over 90 per cent of Wales's land area is farmed and, as such, it's important that the sustainable farming scheme is workable and has real buy-in from the farming industry. The Welsh Government has recognised that changes need to be made and the Welsh Government has made it clear that…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect

…the farmers, but also everybody in Wales who wants to see the multiple benefits delivered through the SFS. Diolch yn fawr iawn.

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect

Look, ultimately, James, in my ideal scenario, we get to a point where—it's not quite a rose garden moment, because there are some infamous rose garden moments—we all walk out together and we say, 'This may not be perfect—.' This is the classic Churchill, second world war, 'Give me radar.' 'I can…

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James EvansConservative

23 October 2024, Plenary

Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect

—Cabinet Secretary. But then you have misquoted me twice today, so there we go. There are going to be bumps in the road, as you've said, but if something isn't right and, say, the farming unions cannot agree with your final position, where do we go then? Where do we go if the farming unions say…

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James EvansConservative

23 October 2024, Plenary

Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect

Can I thank the previous First Minister for telling the Cabinet Secretary I wanted to make an intervention? You did say about getting things right and you did talk earlier about bumps in the road, and maybe I was a little bit unfair on you earlier—

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