Leaving the EU: Benefits for Wales

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 June 2018.

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Photo of Alun Cairns Alun Cairns The Secretary of State for Wales 12:00, 13 June 2018

My hon. Friend is obviously very interested in how the successor to European aid programmes will work, as I am in relation to west Wales and the valleys in general. We have committed to a UK shared prosperity fund, which will allow us—this is one of the benefits of leaving the European Union—to come up with a much simpler and more targeted approach that can help the poorest communities across the UK.