Who should be responsible for promotional levies for the Welsh red meat industry? – have your say.

23 October 2009

Do you think that it should be the Welsh Minister who has the final say over how the red meat levy is collected and used Wales?

That’s the question being asked by the National Assembly for Wales’ Legislation Committee No.3 which is currently scrutinising the proposed Red Meat Industry (Wales) Meausre.

The committee now wants to hear from all interested parties to feed into that scrutiny process.

People are employed in the red meat industry in all parts of Wales which is why this is such an important Measure,” said Committee Chair, Dai Lloyd, AM.

“The proposed Measure will give Welsh Ministers the flexibility to streamline the promotion and marketing of the industry in the future”..

“That’s why we want to hear from all parts of the industry - from farmers and abattoirs, producers and processors, to hear what they think of the proposed Measure.”

The proposed Measure will make Welsh Ministers directly accountable for the Red Meat Industry. The intention is to continue with the operational management arrangements with the introduction of a new delegation agreement between Welsh Ministers and Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), such that HCC is able to continue on its current basis. The Measure will give Welsh Ministers powers over the mechanisms by which the red meat levy and the associated support arrangements could be delivered in Wales.

Have your say by:

- emailing APSLegislationCommitteeNo3@wales.gsi.gov.uk

- writing to Ruth Hatton, Deputy Committee Clerk, Legislation Office, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay, CF99 1NA

NOTES TO EDITORS:

1) For more details about the inquiry visit http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-legislation/bus-leg-measures/business-legislation-measures-cf.htm

2)Submissions should arrive by 13 November 2009. It may not be possible to take into account responses received after this date.