, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Could I ask another question, therefore? Is there any profit—? Leon, you are a company director. Is there any profit on the projects that the company does for the Welsh Government, or do they provide services on a cost basis only to the Welsh Government?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Okay. I accept that you can’t give us a specific figure on that, but would it be reasonable to come to the conclusion, given that, in the year in question, more than half of the company's income derived from services stemmed from the Welsh Government, even…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Thank you, Chair. I just want to stay with this question that the Chair just raised with you about the decision not to receive—well, to not to have the right to receive any financial returns. In the figures that we have seen as a committee in terms of the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Well, we'll return to it in our later discussion, Chair, but I do think that there are additional questions that do arise from the written evidence that we've received, and maybe we'll want to discuss that later on.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Just to be absolutely clear what you're saying, are you saying that the Government's view now is that the caveat that is currently in 'Planning Policy Wales', which says that if undergrounding makes that project financially unviable then it's okay to use…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. This motion aims to make it mandatory for all new electricity distribution lines in Wales to be placed underground rather than conveyed through overhead lines. The Welsh Government's current policy, as set out it in 'Planning…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister
To briefly respond to Mike, I'm sure the current leader of Plaid Cymru would welcome a head-to-head debate with the British leader of the Labour Party to see then who is the most left-wing leader. Last week, while this Chamber was quiet, the theatre next door…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
I hope the Cabinet Secretary can tell us a little more as to when we will get that further information. The reason I ask, of course, is because of constituency interest, in terms of proposed developments in the Tywi and Teifi valleys, and the fact that the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
9. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the work of the independent group assessing the comparative costs of underground and overhead 132 kV transmission lines? OQ61206
, Plenary
Debate: The Steel Industry in Wales
Everyone accepts that there are important questions to answer. The issue is that only you, as the Government, have the resources to be able to provide those answers. So, will you be voting, will you be accepting the amendment that refers to this option? And…
, Plenary
Debate: The Steel Industry in Wales
Would you give way?
, Plenary
Debate: The Steel Industry in Wales
We will have to create a company, a holding company, that will run the blast furnace and the associated heavy end for that period at the minimum that is necessary in order to maintain the integrity of the asset, and we need to do work very, very quickly—over…
, Plenary
Debate: The Steel Industry in Wales
We need to turn 'save our steel' from a slogan into a plan, don't we, and we've only got days, possibly weeks, to do that. So, we have to work together, and the resources of Government now have to be used, because it's only Government, ultimately, that have…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Well, within limits, as I said.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Okay, thank you for that. I should, actually, re-correct myself, again. The rules, the Senedd rules, I was referring to—it is actually a Commission document. It's the 'Rules and Guidance on the Use of Senedd Resources', which actually bars party-political…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
So, if an opposition party, or whatever, decides, 'We want to do X on childcare', and the Government says, 'There's this policy, can you go away and analyse it?', there are no rules around protecting, abuse. So, actually, those costings, then, could be used…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
I'll jump in again. In relation to access talks, I remember them well in the run-up to the 2007—indirectly—but is a sitting Government allowed, for example, to commission an analysis by the civil service of the policies of an opposition party? The costings…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Right, okay. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Right. So, there are pieces of information that are now in the public domain that you weren't aware of, but they would have no bearing on your advice.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Can you in that factual information also tell the committee whether the results of that forensic analysis revealed IP addresses as part of the outcome of the inquiry? Can I just, then, return to the other matter that we've touched upon, which is the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Can I ask you a further set of questions, then, given that you're not prepared to tell us whether a formal leak inquiry—? I take it, and I have to say that my assumption now is that you do have knowledge as to whether a formal leak inquiry has been…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
I'm afraid—I've checked the pre-election guidance; the pre-election guidance is about impartiality, and it actually places a duty upon you to provide factual answers to factual questions, so it goes in a different direction, I would contend. Is your evidence…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
It's a factual question. The answer is either you are aware that a formal leak inquiry was commissioned, or you are not aware. That is the question that I'm putting to you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
My question is whether you're aware now.
