Member

The Government’s reaction is to say, “Our accountants can’t possibly do the sums. What comes from Wales could be anything between nil and £1 billion”. As was pointed out at Second Reading, they did precisely that until 2021. In Scotland, they work out the income of the Crown Estates now. At Second Reading, the Minister said that the profits of the Crown Estates in Scotland are deducted from the block grant. Is that really the case? Do the Scottish Government get nothing from the oil revenues? The nationalists were going to run the whole country on those at one time.