In a special meeting with Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns and Defra Secretary Michael Gove the Farmers’ Union of Wales has highlighted the need for further clarity on how agricultural funding will be allocated to Wales after Brexit.
Speaking after the meeting, FUW President Glyn Roberts said: “Both Secretaries of State have provided assurances that Wales will receive the same allocation of agricultural funding until 2022, and that this would take place outside the Barnett Formula.”
Mr Roberts said that this had been a key message of the FUW’s #FairFarmFunding campaign, and that the repeated assurances are very welcome.
“We now need the next steps in terms of seeing the technical details of how this will take.
“This is the last Royal Welsh Show before we exit the European Union. There are less than 8 months to go but actually we have even less time than that. Budgets need to be finalised by October at the very latest and for that we need to know more details about how money will be allocated.”