NDM7708 Debate: The UK Levelling Up and Shared Prosperity Funds
NDM7708 Debate: The UK Levelling Up and Shared Prosperity Funds
NDM7708 Lesley
Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Agrees that the UK Government approach
to the Levelling Up Fund and broader EU successor funding does not guarantee
that Wales will not be a penny worse off and represents a clear assault on
Welsh devolution.
2. Agrees that the pilot UK Community
Renewal Fund for 2021-22 represents a significant cut in funding for Wales as
the Welsh Government would have received at least £375m each year in the form
of EU structural funds.
3. Notes that this cut in available funding
threatens jobs and services in Wales.
4. Shares the concerns raised by the Welsh Local
Government Association regarding the level of available funding and the process
for delivery expressed in its evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee regarding
the UK Government’s proposals.
5. Notes the independent UK Industrial
Strategy Council’s description of the UK Government’s Levelling Up plans as
‘centrally controlled funding pots thinly spread across a range of
initiatives’.
6. Agrees that the UK Government has
neither presented nor won a mandate to cut EU successor funds for Wales or
unilaterally undermine Welsh devolution.
7. Believes that decisions about Wales
should be taken in Wales and that the UK Government must stop using the
Internal Market Act to diminish Wales’s say.
UK
Community Renewal Fund: prospectus 2021-22
Welsh
Local Government Association - oral evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee -
27 May 2021
Business type: Debate
Reason considered: Government Business;
Status: Stage 1
First published: 09/06/2021