Wales' Finance Minister has joined counterparts from Scotland and Northern Ireland to express concern about the controversial UK Internal Market Bill's impact on devolution.

The UK Government passed the first reading of the bill this week, amid worries that it could create tensions in the Good Friday Agreement for Northern Ireland.

And now Rebecca Evans has joined Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes and Finance Minister for Northern Ireland Conor Murphy in raising concerns over the bill.

The powers enable the UK Government to undertake spending in devolved areas, including for replacement EU funding, without any engagement with devolved nations, the trio say.

The Finance Ministers also voiced concerns about what this could mean for future consequential funding arrangements.

Ms Evans said: "I am deeply concerned that the Bill gives UK Ministers, for the first time since devolution, powers to fund activity in areas which are clearly devolved to Wales.

“In Wales funding decisions are taken in partnership with local communities, to ensure that they reflect the needs of the people in Wales. The powers set out in the Bill completely undermine devolution and will see decisions currently taken in Wales clawed back by the UK Government.”

After backing the Bill earlier this week, Brecon and Radnorshire MP Fay Jones said: "I do not accept any accusation that this bill rows back on the devolution settlement. When we left the European Union, we did so as one United Kingdom. Following the transition period, the Welsh Parliament will hold almost seventy new powers.

“Likewise, the UK Government will also hold important investment powers which were originally the responsibility of the European Union. To put it simply, these powers never belonged to the Welsh Parliament – they were the UK’s powers ceded to Brussels as part of our membership of the European Union."