Extracts from Commons proceedings - Feb 3
Tuesday, 4 February 2020 07:55
Extract from second reading debate (Commons) of the Agriculture
Bill Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP):...When will we
hear details of the shared prosperity fund—details of how much
money it contains, and what conditions might be attached? When will
we see the global funding figure, and the proportions for Scotland
and Wales? Will we have any guarantees that they will be at least
maintained in real terms and on international comparators? Will
support for our farmers at least...Request free trial
Extract from second
reading debate (Commons) of the Agriculture Bill
(Edinburgh North and Leith)
(SNP):...When will we hear details of the shared prosperity
fund—details of how much money it contains, and what conditions
might be attached? When will we see the global funding figure, and
the proportions for Scotland and Wales? Will we have any guarantees
that they will be at least maintained in real terms and on
international comparators? Will support for our farmers at least
keep pace with the support that farmers in the remaining states of
the EU will receive? Farmers need some idea of the long-term
support that they will receive, or not receive, so they can plan
their businesses. The Minister is a farmer himself, and he must be
aware of that. Brexit is enough of a disaster for farmers without
their not being made aware of the funds that they are likely to
receive....
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Extract from
Delegated Legislation committee consideration of the Draft
Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order
2019
(Glenrothes) (SNP):...My final
concern relates again to whose priorities will be implemented. We
have already seen the Government prepare to remove not only local
discretion but the discretion of the national devolved Parliaments
on decisions about the allocation of money from the shared
prosperity fund which replaces the European funding
that has been coming into the UK for many years. At the moment, in
Scotland—I understand that the situation is similar in Wales—the
national devolved Parliament has a significant influence over how
those funds are allocated. The only objection that I have heard
from Government Members about that is that sometimes the
Parliaments of Scotland and Wales have different priorities from
that of the United Kingdom, but that is why we have devolved
Parliaments. If we could be sure that everybody’s priorities were
the same, we would need only one Government; we would need only one
MP, because we would not need any kind of discussion about
priorities...
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