Alun Cairns
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Economic Update
Alun Cairns Excerpts(4 years, 9 months ago)
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Rishi Sunak
I am happy to ask my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for International Trade and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to have a look at that.
Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan) (Con)
I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for the scale of the package that he has announced, and I recognise the significance of the Barnett consequentials that will come from it. Does he agree that simplicity and commonality are key features? It was only late yesterday that the Welsh Government matched the business rate package, which left—[Interruption.] It left many businesspeople in my constituency anxious before the support was made available. Does my right hon. Friend recognise that commonality will be an important theme?
Rishi Sunak
My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point: a simple, common message across our Union would make an enormous difference to people everywhere.