| Author (Corporate) | NAW Research Service |
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| Publisher | NAW |
| Series Title | In Brief |
| Series Details | 03.05.18 |
| Publication Date | July 2018 |
| Content Type | Report |
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Following an inquiry and report into The future of land management in Wales by the National Assembly for Wales: Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee in 2017, the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths AM, made a statement in the Assembly on 'the future of land management' on the 8 May 2018. Further information Ever since the UK voted to leave the EU, those interested in rural Wales had been debating how rural land should be managed after Brexit. Given that farmland made up some 80% of land in Wales, a key question to resolve was what would replace the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) once the UK had left the EU. CAP currently provided the framework for agriculture and land management policy and funding across the EU. In Wales, as elsewhere, it’s had been criticised by farmers and conservationists alike for being overly bureaucratic and not fulfilling its agricultural or environmental objectives. There were, of course, other important issues that also needed to be resolved before Wales would have a clearer picture of how land management policy would look after Brexit. These included how a future policy would be funded and what the future trading relationship with the EU would be. This In Brief feature from Senedd Research provided further information on the issues and the viewed expressed so far by interested stakeholders. Subsequent developments, July 2018 Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths launched a consultation on the 10 July 2018 on a new Land Management Programme to support Welsh farmers post-Brexit, replacing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The latest Welsh Government Brexit paper, Brexit and our Land, proposed two new large and flexible schemes to replace Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Glastir and other parts of the Rural Development Programme. The programme would consist of the following two schemes: + The Economic Resilience Scheme would provide targeted investment to land managers and their supply chains. It would provide investment to increase competitiveness and make improvements in resilience and productivity for high-quality food production. + The Public Goods Scheme would provide a new income stream to land managers delivering public goods from the land. It would enable them to help address challenges such as climate change mitigation, habitat loss, poor air and water quality. The proposals would be subject to extensive consultation until October 2018, working closely with key partners. A white paper setting out detailed proposals would be published in the spring of 2019 and the Welsh Government would publish a Bill before the end of the Assembly session to make provision for the reform. Funding from old schemes would not be withdrawn until new schemes were ready. Separately, the Welsh Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons issued on the 9 July 2018 a report called Brexit: priorities for Welsh agriculture following an inquiry Brexit: Agriculture, Trade and the repatriation of powers. |
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| Source Link | https://seneddresearch.blog/2018/05/03/land-management-after-brexit-cabinet-secretary-to-make-plenary-statement/ |
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| Countries / Regions | Wales |
