18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
Yes. I noticed you were wearing a friendship badge between Wales and Germany at yesterday's—.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
I hope you're not following her example.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
—than at any other time in our lifetimes. We've seen decades of trade liberalisation promoted by reducing barriers to trade, and now we're seeing barriers erected. That's going to have an impact, of course, on Welsh exporters, but also people who import from…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
I'm interested in your approach to trade. Brexit, of course, has erected more barriers to trade—
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
Of course they do. Eventually they do.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
My concern is that you're able to give a more thoughtful response in terms of considering the issues, rather than simply pursuing a conversation this afternoon, in looking at some of the consequences of this. That's probably best handled by correspondence…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
I'm interested in this subject. I think it's really important to understand the real-world impact of spending decisions. And it might be useful, rather than continue along this conversation this afternoon, if the Minister were to write to the committee…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
It is, it is. Let me ask you two questions, to test that a bit further. You've already said that, I think it is, the green business loan scheme is oversubscribed, so that's clearly going to have an impact, given some of the decisions you're looking at taking…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
And I would agree with you on that. I think it has been a success, and I think the programmes you've just described have all been successful, but we are seeing reductions, of course, and my question was, 'How do you see the future?' Because it is difficult, I…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
Thank you very much. What's the future for business support in this budget?
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
—I certainly will, don't worry—in terms of property investment and other sorts of infrastructure investment, if you like, to create a business environment that is viable in and around the Heads of the Valleys. But the whole investment in that road, as you…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
The Minister's pre-empted my question to him in next Tuesday's statement on the Heads of the Valleys—[Laughter.]—
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
—there are parts of the country that require greater support than other parts of the country; that's accepted. So, how are you ensuring that those parts of Wales that have greater economic need, where the market is not delivering the sort of investment that…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Gweinidog yr Economi
I'm grateful to you, Chair, thank you. Thank you, Minister. I'm interested in how you have looked at the impact of these spending decisions. You referred, in one of your answers to the Chair, to the support that the Welsh Government is providing to a company…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
But it's also true to say that we've allowed the UK Government to get away with being an England Government, I think, historically. You look at VisitBritain. It's largely visit London, Stratford and Edinburgh, possibly—it's not VisitBritain at all. And in the…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Thank you. I'm grateful to you. I understand the context of difficult decisions and the rest of it, but it's really worrying to hear the description of the sorts of cuts that you're looking at making in some of these areas. I'm not convinced that you can do…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
That's why I think correspondence is a better way to do it.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Yes. I was interested by the point that Sam made, actually, about inflation, because, looking through the budget, it's clearly influenced by the wider macro-economic climate and it may be easier, I should say at the beginning, if this is dealt with by…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
I was quoting.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
I'm grateful to you for that, Minister. I've got an e-mail in front of me from a farmer in my constituency. I won't read the whole e-mail, Members will be pleased to hear, but what my constituent says is, he's asking the question how much of the public…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
—under European payments. So, the impact of Brexit, of course, has put farmers on the front line in a way that they never have been in our memory, really. So, there are debates taking place today, and we see them in the Chamber and we see them elsewhere, that…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Thank you, Chair. The Chair asks a really interesting question, doesn't he—how are you fighting for the budget? When I was the agriculture Minister, of course, I didn't need to fight for a budget because it was protected—
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
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17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
So, what is the plan?
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I'm not disputing that. We had that conversation yesterday in the Chamber, to some extent. But I do think that the Government as a whole, and not simply this department, has a wider, more profound responsibility for these matters.
