, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
Can I just ask you how much you're investing in training? And if you can't answer that straight away, I'm happy to receive a letter from the three organisations explaining how you're contributing resources, BBC, S4C and so forth, to training. I tend to think…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
And I take it that you agree with that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
I appreciate that. Do you think the Government is investing enough? A million has been set as the budget, but, of course, that's been cut from the current budget, so there's about £800,000 or £700,000 currently. Is that sufficient? Nia, you were just saying…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
Thank you. Nia, could you explain the process that you followed in terms of creating the scheme?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
That's very interesting. Just for me to understand this process, you were appointed by the Government, by the Minister, there are 10 of you—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
Okay, so. you're responsible. [Laughter.]
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
Thank you. Siân, just to go back to you, are you saying that you have put an application in?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
That's not quite the same, is it? You've contributed to it, you haven't shaped it.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
Have you been part of creating the scheme?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
So, you've been part of creating this scheme.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with national broadcasters
Thank you, and thank you very much for giving of your time this morning. I've been looking at the strategy—or the scheme or whatever the Government has decided to call it this time—to develop the creative skills. They launched it back in September, I believe…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS Winter Pressures
I'm grateful to the Minister for her full statement this afternoon. I think all of us, on all sides of the Chamber and whatever our political differences may be, have a great well of gratitude to everybody who's working in the current circumstances across the…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, do you agree with me that it takes some front for a Conservative to criticise the national health service? One of the issues we've seen over the last decade has been how austerity has ripped the heart out of our public services. Brexit ripped…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
You won't be surprised that I've got no time for any of that nonsense, but the important thing for you as Counsel General, and the important thing for us as a Senedd committee, is what does the Welsh statute book look like. You and I could make the same…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
I think we've covered parts of it. I'm just interested in whether the Counsel General believes there are any longer term lessons for the Welsh Government in some of these areas, following on from some of the points that James Evans has just made. Because the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Just to clarify something, James's question to you was, 'Would you want those powers?' My understanding would be that you have those powers, or we have those powers shared between the Senedd and the Government as we stand, because if the law is on the statute…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
I can imagine that, for many departments in Whitehall, it's not a job that they relish or look forward to. What happens then if and where—? Because there's going to be a dispute, isn't there, at some point, because this seems to be a piece of legislation that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Yes, I get that, I understand that. It's not often I see the National Farmers Union, RSPCA and the wildlife link all sitting on the same page. One thing, if I'm reading their comments correctly, is that they talk about confusion, uncertainty and the rest of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
—could be seen as a regulatory burden, which would then be struck down by the Supreme Court.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
So, for example, legislation to improve bathing water standards in Welsh rivers, for argument's sake—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
So, let me understand what you're saying here, Counsel General. In a year's time, December 2023, the United Kingdom Government has used powers contained in this Bill to, for example, remove environmental standards on water quality, for argument's sake, or to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
—force change through the UK Parliament without reference to either Welsh Government or the Senedd.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
That the UK Government could—
