, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with arts and culture organisations
Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with arts and culture organisations
But, Rhys, I'm asking about the impact of the pandemic, and you've discussed a number of different things there, and I accept that. But what about the impact of the pandemic itself? Because I find it difficult to believe that these skills gaps that you…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with arts and culture organisations
But what about the workforce itself?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with arts and culture organisations
Thank you. I want to look at where we are at present. Now, we have been through the pandemic, of course, and in our previous session we had a conversation on the impact of the pandemic on the workforce. How would you describe the impact that the pandemic had…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with arts and culture organisations
Thank you very much.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
Okay. Thank you for that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
Okay. That's very clear. Tom.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
I'm grateful to you both for that. [Interruption.] Sorry, can I just pursue one of these threads, please? It's always good to hear—and, frankly, we don't hear it very often from witnesses—of that level of success and growth, it would seem, in the economy. I…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
Okay. Sorry, I interrupted you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
So—. Excuse me. Excuse me. Fifteen thousand or 20,000 is a good number, isn't it, but what would they be doing? Where are these numbers?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
But that's always true, isn't it? I've worked as a freelancer and sometimes work comes, sometimes it doesn't. Such is life, and that's part of the choice that an individual makes. What I'm interested in—. We've discussed the impact of the pandemic, but I was…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
Can I come back on that, very quickly? You say they were holes in it, and the Welsh Government weren't able to cover everything. Can you explain to us where those holes were, and what your analysis is of why the Government weren't able to cover everything?…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: Evidence session with academics
I'm grateful to you for joining us this morning. One of the things that I saw during the pandemic was a number of different issues emerging within the creative industries, if you like, workforce, mainly, as far as I could see, around freelancers and the…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Public Sector Role in the Future Energy System
I'm grateful, Presiding Officer. Like others, Minister, I very much welcome the statement you've made this afternoon. I very much welcome the initiative that you're taking. I'd like to follow on from other Members in the approach this afternoon, and perhaps…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Development Bank of Wales—Investing with ambition
I enjoy the Minister's statements and I enjoy the conversations that he embarks upon across the Chamber. In discussing a lot of his different priorities for the investment bank he's made it very clear that he wants to see the development bank acting in a very…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Of course, the last time we met, First Minister, the Tories were telling us that Liz Truss was the best Prime Minister that we've ever had and that Conservative economic policy was unchallengeable. We've seen some change in that in the last few days. But…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I was actually very interested in this. The criticisms that it makes of the UK Government and the methodology of legislation reflect some of the things that we've been saying in many of our reports. I think it might be useful if we were able to find a way of…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
I will take up every second of that generous offer. Let us not go down the route—. I've seen proposals in my own constituency where turbines of 180m, 650 ft, are being proposed within 1 km of some settlements. That's the size of the valley sides in my…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
The Member for Aberconwy makes my second point for me. The first role potentially for Government is more of a passive role; it provides the environment by which other people can take decisions and make investments. The second role, I think, is a far more…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
Reading through the report of the committee—I'm very grateful to the Chair of the committee for his introduction this afternoon—and reading through the Government response, my overwhelming feeling was that there wasn't a great deal of difference between the…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
I'm glad to hear you making this case—I think it's an important case to be made—but, of course, what those organisations also have in common is that they support the devolution of the Crown Estate to Wales, which would provide a financial boost for those…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
I’m grateful to you, and I’m grateful to you for bringing this forward so quickly. You said in your introduction that the Government hadn’t had sight of this. Just for clarity, because of the matters you’re discussing in terms of transfer of functions to the…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
Minister, will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Taith—Delivering Wales's innovative international learning exchange programme
I'm grateful to you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm grateful to the Minister also for his statement this afternoon. I very much welcome this from the Welsh Government, and I'm sure that you'll find a very warm welcome in Brussels as well. This is something…
