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However, in the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee on 27 June 2018, Mike Rumbles MSP asked the UK Government's Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove, "Is it your intention to ensure that we [Scotland] continue to receive that 16 per cent level of funding and that it will be ring fenced and protected so that it cannot be spent outwith the rural economy?"