Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 61273

Bluetongue Disease: Finance

Tabled: 19 June 2025
Answered: 24 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Ann Davies

Plaid CymruCaerfyrddin

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Wales will receive any consequential funding through the Barnett formula as a result of UK Government actions on the bluetongue virus in England.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Barnett formula is applied in the usual way, as set out in the Statement of Funding policy, to all changes to Defra’s budget. It is applied when departmental budgets change - not when departments announce how they are spending their budgets. Barnett c...

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