13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
No, diolch yn fawr. Diolch, Cadeirydd. Just one other point, and it was mentioned there, about capital investment. Mona Dairy has just gone into administration, having had, in 2021, £3 million of capital funding from Welsh Government. Are the checks and…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Okay. I'll take that then. Thanks, Chair.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
—and now, Gian, you're saying you're not confirming it. Is an RDP advisory board going to be set up? It was a commitment.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
So, the Cabinet Secretary just confirmed it—
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
So, I take from your answer—just forgive me, Chair—and Huw's answer, that, yes, the RDP advisory board is to be set up.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Okay. Just one final point on the RDP. The previous commitment for an RDP advisory board to advise on future delivery of funding; is that still a commitment?
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
HM Treasury would say that the accounting would show that the Welsh Government has received what was a manifesto commitment in 2019.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
HM Treasury would say that they have.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
I understand the reality here, and there are differing arguments from His Majesty's Treasury as to the quantum of money being sent down the M4 for delivery of projects, and everything like that. You've spent two minutes there now explaining something that was…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
How long is that going to be an excuse? How long? Eight years—
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Okay. One thing—. And not to dwell on your predecessor, but in her final couple of scrutiny sessions here, we talked around the rural development programme and the delivery of that. Are you planning any sort of review of how the RDP was done? Are you looking…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
I appreciate that.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
So, why are they announced, then, if they're not ready? If that £20 million is announced in October 2022, for me, that should be available money. That shouldn't be money and then saying, 'Yes, we've announced it, but you won't be able to access it until 18…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Just picking up a point there that you mentioned around what you called the recently announced £20 million—that was announced initially back in 2022, and then the technical advisory group around TB was also…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
Yes, fab. Thank you. That's really helpful. Thank you, Chair.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
Yes, fine. Agreed?
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
Okay, thank you. And just a final point, then, on the reskilling stuff. Tata has been mentioned, and this committee has done a fair amount of work around Tata following their announcement. On reskilling, there's concern around the licences only being valid on…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
Okay, that's helpful. Thank you.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
Okay. Thank you. Moving on that then, in terms of reskilling and retraining, and the Wales union learning fund, supporting workers to reskill and upskill to adapt, any additional steps that could be taken to deliver further on the Wales union learning fund?
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
That's where I'm coming at it. That Llantrisant model there seems to be private sector or a sector with higher education developing that link, and the Government is somewhat excluded from that discussion. So, is it up to those private businesses—I'm thinking…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
Okay. Thank you, Jane.
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
So, it should be up to the Government then to be able to determine, 'Look, this is where we need to be going, in terms of numbers on skills development', and then for the policy to follow subsequently from those discussions that you have with developers, et…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
So, for Prospect and the TUC, is that discussion being had where we are—and I use the term auditing, but other terms are available—fully understanding where the trajectory is going in terms of workforce skills, from developers, from industry, from educational…
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
So, how do we find that out?
13 Mehefin 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad i’r Economi Werdd - Panel 8 - Undebau Llafur
Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd. Good morning to you both. Thanks for joining. My questions are around skills and the supply chain. One set of questions that I've raised with the Minister, and the previous Minister before, is around the auditing of what skills…
