20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
They will be separate decisions for local authorities. You couldn't consult just once on whether to introduce and to change the level at the same time. You would have to consult as the Bill requires on whether or not you wish to introduce the levy, and you…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Wel, yng nghanol y Bil, Cadeirydd, mae'r berthynas rhwng y Llywodraeth yma yng Nghaerdydd ac awdurdodau lleol, a'r berthynas dwi eisiau ei gweld yw un ble mae'r ymddiriedaeth uchaf. Yn fy marn i, gallwn ni ddibynnu ar awdurdodau lleol i ddefnyddio'r pwerau…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Wel, Cadeirydd, mae adran 13 yn eithaf cymhleth ac mae lot o bethau ynddi, so dwi'n mynd i ofyn i'r swyddogion i'm helpu gyda'r cwestiwn. Ond jest un pwynt i fi ei wneud: fel yr esboniais i i Laura Anne Jones, mae pwerau yn y Bil i ddelio â'r llety sydd gyda…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
No. The intention of the power, as drafted, is to allow us simply to keep the current levels, to sustain their real value, not in order to be able to increase them. If I can go back just very briefly to a point I think, Chair, you asked me in the very…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Yes, the higher and the lower rate, and they're there on the face of the Bill at £1.25 and 75p. And I've seen the suggestions to which Laura Anne referred from some that we should have on the face of the Bill a period in which those rates could not be…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Thank you, Chair. I think I'll try and answer the two points separately, if I could. In relation to changing existing accommodation as far as the visitor levy is concerned, as I said, the power in the Bill is designed to take account of unforeseen…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Thank you, Chair. In general, the answer is the answer I gave to Mick Antoniw, that you need to futureproof the operation of the Bill. There are two powers in the Bill that are closely related, but different. The power to which Laura Anne Jones refers is…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Thank you, Chair. So, as I rehearsed a little earlier with Adam Price, the Government has published, made available, clauses that we will intend to introduce as Stage 2 amendments. If those amendments succeed, then, instead of the regulation-making power that…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
I don't believe it is, Chair. How do I put this in the most diplomatic way? Sometimes, Government can find ourselves in the crossfires of two sorts of criticism. There is the sort of criticism that Mick just reflected: the Bill isn't sufficiently definite, it…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Thank you. I think there's a great deal of information on the face of this Bill—the register, the parameters of the Bill, the amount of money that can be charged and so on. All of that is on the face of the Bill. The secondary legislative powers, almost all…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Wrth gwrs, ydw.
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Dwi'n mynd i droi at Anna neu David i helpu fi fan hyn, achos mae'n bosib fy mod i wedi camgofio, ond beth roeddwn i'n cofio oedd y gallwn ni rannu'r data fel yna gyda'r awdurdodau lleol, er enghraifft, heb gael y data yn y gofrestr gyhoeddus. Am resymau…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Na. Mae hwnnw'n gwestiwn da. Bydd y gofrestr yn ddogfen gyhoeddus, ond nid popeth. Ac yn enwedig pan fydd pobl yn rhoi llety i bobl yn eu cartrefi eu hunain, dwi ddim yn meddwl bod hwnna'n rhywbeth rŷn ni eisiau i bob un ei weld. Bydd y rhan fwyaf o'r…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Ysgrifennais i at Gadeirydd y Pwyllgor Cyllid nôl ym mis Rhagfyr i esbonio yn fwy a rhoi mwy o fanylion am beth yn union rŷn ni'n mynd i gyflwyno yng Nghyfnod 2 i roi pwerau ar wyneb y Bil. A'r draft affirmative byddwn ni'n defnyddio, os bydd pwerau fel yna.
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
I think the most obvious example is in the relationship between the register and the licensing scheme. Accommodation providers will register now as part of this Bill. You would not want businesses who have gone to the trouble of doing all of that to have to…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Diolch yn fawr. Un o'r pethau rŷn ni'n clywed bob tro, ac roedden ni'n clywed yr un peth yn y cyfnod ymgynghori, yw bod busnesau a'r dinasyddion—. Beth dydyn nhw ddim eisiau ei wneud yw rhoi yr un data bob tro, dro ar ôl tro. So, dyna pam rŷn ni'n cymryd…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Ie, y draft affirmative. Yr un un broses.
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Dwi'n meddwl, os dwi'n cofio'n iawn, fod 20 o bwerau, fel mae Adam Price wedi esbonio, ar wyneb y Bil, ac mewn 17 ohonyn nhw rŷn ni'n mynd i ddefnyddio'r draft affirmative, fel maen nhw'n dweud yn Saesneg. So, dim ond tri o'r 20 sydd ddim yn mynd i gael eu…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Yn fewnol, rŷn ni wedi mynd trwy'r broses yna'n llawn. Doedd y gwaith yna ddim wedi ei adlewyrchu yn y memorandwm esboniadol gwreiddiol, ond y bwriad yw, Cadeirydd, fel arfer, i ailgyhoeddi'r memorandwm esboniadol ar ôl Cyfnod 2, a bydd y wybodaeth newydd…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Wel, diolch i Adam Price am y cwestiwn, Cadeirydd. So, mae dau reswm penodol pam doedden ni ddim wedi gwneud hynny. Fel y bydd Adam Price yn ymwybodol, yn y cytundeb cydweithio mae dau beth, mae cyswllt rhwng y ddau beth. Mae'r Bil sydd o flaen y Senedd ar…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Thanks to Laura Anne for that, Chair. So, there is a definition on the face of the Bill of the broad purposes for which any tax collected must be applied, and it is destination management of the tourism experience. It will be for local authorities within that…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
I thank the Member for that question. Certainly the Bill has been informed by the Scottish experience, and Welsh Government officials were able to meet with their counterparts in Scotland on a monthly basis during the passage of the Visitor Levy (Scotland)…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Chair, I didn't think there was a strong case for a draft Bill, given that this is a matter that had been under consideration in the Senedd for over a decade, one way or another. There was nothing in the Bill that was likely to come as a surprise to the…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Chair, I think the consultation was decisive in a number of ways, because a clear message that we received through the consultation exercise was that if a visitor levy in Wales were to go ahead, it needed to be as simple and clear as we could make it. There…
20 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar y Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru)
Chair, Laura Anne Jones is right—of course, it is an enabling Bill. It provides a permissive power to local authorities, and it's for local authorities to decide whether or not to take up that permissive power. I think it's worth me just briefly reminding the…
