Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 24 January 2017.
Carwyn Jones
Labour
1:38,
24 January 2017
I heard the comments of Mr Roberts, the FUW’s president, last week, when he expressed his concern about a perfect storm, and he is right to do so. At the moment, we have no clarity beyond 2020. There are some within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs who suggest there should be no farming subsidies at all. That is not something that we would support as a Government. And there are some who suggest that the European market is not important for farming—90 per cent of our food and drink exports go to the European market. It cannot be replaced easily as a market for our goods, so we must ensure that, as the UK leaves the EU, nothing interferes with the ability of our famers to sell on the same terms as they do now to by far their biggest market.
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