Oral QuestionWales Office

What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Spring Statement 2025 on family farms in Wales.

Tabled: 22 April 2025Answered: 30 April 2025

Asked by

John Lamont

ConservativeBerwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Wales

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Dame Nia Griffith)

Just this morning I had the pleasure of visiting the Carmarthenshire Day exhibition in the Jubilee Room, which I strongly recommend as a real display of Welsh farming and food produce. The Government are steadfastly committed to the farming sector. We protected the farm budget at its current level and allocated £337 million to the Welsh Government at the autumn Budget. The Welsh Government, in their budget, have used that to maintain the basic payment scheme, providing much-needed support for farmers across Wales—a budget that, as the hon. Lady knows, Tory and Plaid Cymru Senedd Members tried to block.