THE UK and Welsh Governments have agreed to 26 common frameworks, covering a range of devolved policy areas, including food safety, air quality and public procurement.

The UK Government has been working with devolved administrations to establish common frameworks on how to manage divergence in certain policy areas that were formerly governed at a European Union level.

Aberconwy MS, Janet Finch-Saunders, said: “I am absolutely delighted to see that the UK Government continue to take leadership to resolve and properly manage divergences of policy between the UK and Welsh Governments.

“For example, the animal health and welfare provisional common framework commit both administrations to working collaboratively on all animal health and wellbeing law, not just retained EU law, to ensure that divergence in policy is minimised.

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“Many of these frameworks have already been operating on an interim basis following the UK’s official exit from the EU.

“However, I am pleased to see these common frameworks are now going to be published and placed before the relevant scrutiny committees both in Westminster and the Senedd.

“I would commend the UK Government for taking leadership on this issue and working with devolved administrations across the UK to establish these agreements.

“Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the UK Government has kept to its commitment to deliver on Brexit, and these frameworks prove that.”