, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
No, I think it's a negative one, you see, because my view is—and we're straying into policy here, and we've got to be careful—that if we have a player that has greater resource and greater power than the player that exists already, you don't need to have a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
I'm grateful to you for that. It's tempting me down a path of a long conversation on policy, which is not appropriate in this committee. But I'm unsure whether I'm convinced by the answers, quite honestly, on structures. Because whilst you're saying, Cabinet…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Taking this forward, I was interested in an answer you gave earlier to Luke, because, like you, in your original answers, I'm very much in favour—. Sorry, my throat is—. Perhaps it knows what I'm going to say. [Laughter.] I'm very much in favour, politically…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
I'll leave it at that, thank you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
That's quite something. It's quite a reflection on the UK Government.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Twenty-five years later.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
So can I take it from that response that those are the sorts of conversations that are taking place between the two Governments at the moment? I can see lots of nodding heads. I'm hoping somebody's going to say ‘yes’ for the public record.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
But the LCM that you're potentially asking us to agree is. And that's the problem, isn't it? Because what we had over Brexit was a huge power grab by the executive, generally in London, and removed democratic accountability from the UK Parliament and from…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
I appreciate the work that's being done on these matters, and I know it can be fiendishly difficult—I accept all that. I don't like the architecture of this sort of legislation though, because what you've got is very broad Executive powers being given to UK…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Okay.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Previous Ministers sitting in this seat, of course, threatened to take the UK Government to court over the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, and this committee was broadly supportive of that position. I think that's a very reasonable position to take…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
No, I'd like to pursue that, if I could, before officials come in, because, yes, a framework Bill is how I would describe it as well. This committee doesn't like framework Bills, of course, and I don't like framework Bills, and I'm surprised that Welsh…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Let's separate out both LCMs for the purposes of the conversation. I'm interested that although you're not giving the Senedd any advice at the moment on support, or not, of the LCM, you seem to welcome the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill. It feels to me…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
I'm satisfied with that, by the way.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Dwi'n hen ddigon bodlon gyda hynny. Dŷn ni wedi cael sesiwn arbennig o dda bore yma dros ddwy awr, ac mae'n dda cael yr amser yma i actually trafod rhywbeth gyda Gweinidog yn lle jest rhuthro trwy bethau. Felly, yr unig gwestiwn sydd rili gen i ar ôl ar ôl y…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Yes, it says that, I agree, but it doesn't say 'hyrwyddo'—that's my question. That's what I understood in the Minister's response to Vaughan, that facilitation was part of that.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you, Minister. I'm looking through Part 5 of the Bill. You've just said, in answering Vaughan, that you would expect the learning Welsh institute to facilitate the language in the community. I don't see anything here…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
That's clear.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
So, you don't want statutory provision in this area.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
I'm interested in what the politicians have got to say about what the Welsh Government are doing, in fact, in terms of the approach taken, because when the Minister is sitting in your seats in a few weeks' time, you know and we all know what they're going to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
Do you think that Cardiff should have an additional element of grant from the Welsh Government because it’s the capital city? That's the argument you're using—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
You're picking on me every time. [Laughter.]
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
But they're also about Cardiff's—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
All of those services and service areas that you've described are essential elements of what local government will provide to the population. I've got no issue with any of that. But you didn't use that language when you were talking about culture and arts and…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
Can I just finish?
