17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Okay, thank you.
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Louise's hand is up.
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Thank you.
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Whoever. Please, Hannah.
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Okay, thank you. To what extent have you collaborated with other organisations to mitigate the impact of declining public funding?
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
And do you feel that, post COVID, just trying to build that confidence of coming back out and thinking about going back out and connecting to the arts is something that you've had to work hard at?
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Yes.
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Has there been a change—?
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
And has participation been more or less inclusive—the types of audience that are coming along?
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Could I ask you a question about audiences? What's your latest data on audience participation and ticket sales now, compared with pre COVID and pre the cost-of-living crisis? Have you had audiences and sales return? Just a question on that, really.
17 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Thank you. You just mentioned that the SPF was helpful with some projects. Before that, European funding, I suppose, was also helpful. There was a promise, wasn't there, that some of the replacement funding coming forward—what might replace the shared…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: Ensuring all children can thrive: Celebrating alternative education in Wales
Every child is different, and we need to nurture their strengths and embrace their differences, so that, with the right support and kindness, they can be happy and flourish. It may not be through mainstream education, but through dance, music, sport or…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Teaching of reading skills in schools
The Welsh Government has already made it clear that there is a need to improve literacy outcomes for learners, and it is for this reason that the Cabinet Secretary has made it clear that this is a top priority. We can't expect to see progress overnight. We…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Council-owned farms
At the time—it's going back a few years—that wasn't discussed as part of it. It was strategically whether we could keep them and they could be farmed profitably, and be useful to the farming community, or whether it would be better and more profitable for the…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Council-owned farms
I was on an agricultural panel when I was a county councillor, and we used to interview new tenants for council farms and also look at any farms that may come up for disposal. Some of the farms we visited needed investment, and I was surprised that they were…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Implementation of education reforms: Interim report'
I'd like to start by thanking the Chair for bringing forward this debate and all Members on the Children, Young People and Education Committee for all their hard work on this important topic. The Petitions Committee has been considering a number of petitions…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill relating to planning processes for quarry development
As Chair of the Petitions Committee, I wanted to draw your attention to a petition that will be considered by the committee in a few weeks’ time. The petition has 1,585 signatures, 79 per cent of which come from South Wales Central, showing the concentration…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
Thank you for that answer. This has come from the fact that we went as a committee to Ireland and we saw the history there of their wonderful buildings and how they link to the past. I brought my mum on a visit to the Bay and I asked her where would she like…
16 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
4. How does the Commission promote Welsh history and culture to visitors to the Senedd estate? OQ61710
16 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes.
16 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
NRW have done a lot of good work recently—just like public announcements, radio—about home owners being more resilient, about them making sure they're resilient, signing up to flood alerts, et cetera, but if included in that could also be a little bit…
16 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. That's fine. No, that was good. Backup. [Laughter.] Can I ask another question? So, when we had Dŵr Cymru in the other day, we were talking about water capture and trying to ensure that surface water doesn't go into their drainage system, as that's a…
16 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes.
16 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay.
16 October 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Could I ask you what assessment has been made of the number of emergency overflows in Wales that will require monitoring? And I just want to raise a concern as well that the Bill is for emergency overflows. Unlike in England, there is no current reporting…
