What assessment has the Minister made of whether money invested into Welsh agriculture by the Welsh Government has produced a good return on investment?
Answered by Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd | Answered on 26/02/2024
All schemes delivered through the Rural Development Programme 2014-20 (RDP) were independently evaluated. Each evaluation report can be found here.
Each year, the Welsh Government submits an Annual Implementation Report (AIR) to the European Commission (EC) on the delivery of the RDP. We will publish our final AIR later this year (subject to EC approval in Autumn 2024). Our published AIRs can be found here.
An overarching ex-post evaluation of the entire RDP will begin later this year following the completion of an active procurement exercise.