, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Sorry, can I stop you there? I've seen those numbers.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Can I stop you there? Give me an example of where you believe a data set would be useful to the Welsh Government and to the Senedd and anyone else where you are not convinced or don’t believe or are unsure whether the UK Government has the analytical capacity…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Sorry, could you repeat that? I didn’t quite catch what you said at the end of that sentence.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I think it's pretty disappointing that the UK Government is neglecting Wales's needs in this way. I think it's something, perhaps, Chair, we may wish to reflect upon as a committee at some point. But I'm grateful to you, Counsel General, for those responses…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Yes. He was rushing off, Counsel General, at the end of our session, to visit the civil and family justice centre, a centre you've brought up in committee on a few occasions. I wondered if there was any progress being made as a consequence of Lord Bellamy's…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Counsel General, I'm already convinced of this. I've been convinced of it for some years. But it's important, I think, to establish the framework for that debate to happen, and I think the Government probably needs to root that in a series of ideas that it…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I'm grateful to you. I'm grateful to you, Counsel General, for that. I think the statements that you're making, the written statements—you've made a series of written statements in the Senedd about the devolution of policing and other matters, and the rest of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change
I'm not sure that's a fair characterisation of the committee's views on those matters, but we'll put it to one side. The fact is that we've waited 49 weeks for an LCM on a Bill as introduced, and I think we need to reflect—Government and the Senedd—on how…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, I accept that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change
We can debate the terminology, but the fact is it hasn't happened.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change
I wouldn't expect that situation to be one that I'd recognise. So, okay, we've got that. And I also recognise what you say about being invited to a meeting at 5 o'clock, to be told by a UK Minister that something's happening at 9 o'clock the following…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change
I do accept that, but you are probably one of the biggest departments in Government, and if you don't have the resources to deal with legislative matters, that's a really serious matter that we need to take up.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change
I agree with you on that, actually; I think it is simpler in Scotland. I think this speaks to the very, very poor way in which the settlement has been established in Wales. I think it does create unnecessary difficulties, both for you and also, frankly, for…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
You've raised it before, yes.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
It's new to me, frankly. I don't remember Ministers speaking to committees like this before.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
You've raised this before, Chair. The Minister telling the committee that we need to suggest areas where Government might reduce spending in order to facilitate this further is not what I expect from Ministers; I expect Ministers to accept responsibility for…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
To do with 4.1.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Can I just raise an issue?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups
Look, I can understand why you like a distributed model. That's fine. And I think David Anderson, when he was here as director general of the national museum, had some very interesting things to say about the national museum sharing its resources, both in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups
But—. I've got no issue with having different things in different places, because, as we said in an earlier session, the slate museum in Llanberis works well because it's rooted in Llanberis, and that's where slate was quarried, and that's why it's important…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups
But then you take them all out of—. You put them into a local context rather than a national context, and you lose the national impact.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups
Yes, but you still don't have the place, the location, and the capacity to deliver access to the national collections. And that, to me, is the real crisis facing Wales.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups
But that to me sounds like an administrative matter rather than anything else.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups
Yes, but you can brand anything as anything—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups
But you can do that now, and nothing's stopping any curator creating that conceptual approach. And I accept that. And I think it's great, by the way; I've got no issue with that. It's all great, and I've got no issue with it at all. But it doesn't answer the…
