Shared Prosperity Fund: Wales Debate
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Lord Hain
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Shared Prosperity Fund: Wales
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Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab)
I thank the noble Lord. As I said to the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, we are having discussions with all counterparts. However, it is important to recognise that people in Wales will have a huge say on how that money will be invested in terms of local growth, businesses and working together in partnership.
Lord Hain (Lab)
My Lords, I associate myself with my noble friend Lady Wilcox’s question, including her congratulations for our magnificent Welsh women footballers. Does the Minister agree that the previous Conservative Government penalised Wales massively, including by pretending that the shared prosperity fund could somehow substitute for European Union economic funding? Taken together, the £243 million loss of rural EU funding and the £772 million shortfall in EU structural funds add up to more than £1 billion. So much for making Brexit work; for Wales, it has been absolutely disastrous.