EU Referendum: Political Consequences

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 July 2016.

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Photo of Alun Cairns Alun Cairns The Secretary of State for Wales 12:00, 13 July 2016

There were many campaigns for a Barnett floor but it was only this Government who delivered on that. On European funds, we have not yet concluded our negotiating position, but simply replacing what are currently EU funds with another source from Westminster misses the point: the EU referendum sent out a number of messages, and those areas that receive most EU funds were the areas, sadly, that voted most strongly to leave the EU. We need to look at models of regional aid in a different way.