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In the autumn 2021 spending review, the UK government allocated funding to the Welsh government to allow the maintenance of the current levels of spending on farms until 2024–25. [35] The FUW trade union however, has calculated that Wales will be £225m worse off over the current parliament due to not using up all of EU funding. Managing ...
The Welsh Government is now considering options to create temporary habitat to help farmers meet this requirement, which should be suitable for all farming systems and land ownership.
Changes to the scheme, which included 10% tree cover on all Welsh farms, have been made.
The UK government has promised the Welsh government money to cover the extra cost for public sector employers in Wales, but it still is not known how much would be made available or if it would ...
However, in June 2018, the UK Government refused to back the plan due to it being shown to be not viable by an independent report. [45] [46] [47] In 2021, the Welsh government said that more than half the country's energy needs were being met by renewable sources, 2 percent of which was from 363 hydropower projects. [48]
Commentators contend that a sovereign Wales could raise additional revenues and reduce expenditure on items not directly connected to the Welsh economy; the Welsh economist John Ball suggests that an independent Welsh government could plug the budget shortfall by instituting land value tax (possibly raising £6 billion per year), tourist tax ...
According to Welsh government research in 2010 [2] the area of potential wind farm land in Wales was 3027 km 2. Although wind farms put some constraints on farming and forestry, they are not incompatible with these land uses. The most recent figures for proportions of agricultural land are from 2011, [3] and for forest and woodland from 2015. [4]
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