, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
The point in the editorial is not that—. The cuts, recently, have ended the magazine—it's closed it. So, it's very easy for successive Ministers we see come here with strategies, but if the people don't exist, they disappear, they've gone. You've got a…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
There are two issues I'd just like to raise with you at the end of this session—I'm very grateful to both of you for the answers you've given this morning. Lesley, in answer to many questions, you've talked about the way that culture speaks for Wales and…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
It was the relationship between the UK and the EU I was concerned about—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
I'm grateful to you for that, Cabinet Secretary. I think Wales has an opportunity to create a new approach to minority language and technology, actually, because of the work that you've described. I think that the opportunity to do that alongside other…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Finally from me, the direct relationship between the Welsh Government and the European Union is something that this committee has always regarded as an absolute priority. The committee has certainly welcomed—I was going to say successive Welsh Governments…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay. In terms of—. I'm grateful to you for that. But, in terms of that preparatory work, I'm interested, therefore, in how you will demonstrate the place of the TCA in the Welsh experience. I use that word in its widest sense, because the Cabinet Secretary…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
You have.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Now, there is the opportunity, of course, to open that up if there's goodwill on both sides of the table. Would you wish to see a wider, more fundamental review of the TCA, of the operation of the TCA, or would you prefer this sort of narrower approach?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay. So, in terms of developing your thinking on the TCA, at the moment, there is a sense that this is a review, as you've said, of the implementation. So, quite a narrow-based review of it.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes, yes. But you're not leading a thought process on that at the moment.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
But you are taking the lead, yes?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes, but you're taking a lead, I imagine, yes?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
No, that's—. It's interesting that you're thinking in those terms, Cabinet Secretary. But we do then have a period—. Because we're not expecting the new EU structures to be in place much before the autumn—or, in fact, they won't be before the autumn—at the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes. The collapse of the political leadership of the United Kingdom Government is clearly an issue for all of us. The descriptions of relationships with UK Ministers is not the historical experience, of course. It's something that is very different at the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
So, how many meetings have there been at a ministerial level? Maybe it's easier for you to write to us with this information, but I just want to understand—and I do understand what you're saying—how that looks in practical terms. How many ministerial meetings…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes. You have described the situation as it is and the structures that do exist. Whether we like it or not, I understand that. But, there is a role for Welsh Ministers here to knock on the doors of the Ministers in Westminster and to tell them clearly what…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: The future of farming in Wales
I very much welcome your appointment, Minister. I very much welcome the way in which you've hit the ground running. The announcement that you made today, I think, demonstrates a real willingness to move forward, but to do so in conversation with people…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Our national mission—delivering on Wales’s education priorities
I welcome very much the statement you've made this afternoon, Minister. There are two issues I would like to raise with you this afternoon. First of all is additional learning needs. You will remember that I was the Minister who was responsible for taking…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Can I say I think this is an appalling way of legislating? It really is poor—250 amendments at such a late stage in the process. I think it demonstrates the dangers of the sort of joint legislation that we see between the two Parliaments. This, and the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
I was going to say that I think somebody, whichever is the appropriate committee, should look harder at this, because I think there is a great deal left unsaid in the memorandum of understanding, and I'm not convinced that this memorandum of understanding…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
I found it quite a curious memorandum of understanding, because it does give high-level structures, but I'm unclear as to how those structures will work in practice and how they'll be managed in practice. I'm unclear as to who in this place would hold the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Can I raise an issue?
