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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
And that's what we're doing.
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It might be. It might be. But what we were saying was that there needed to be an options appraisal about what might be the best way. It could another dispersed model site, couldn't it—[Interruption.]—of several—. I know Alun loves—
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
So, the concept was—is—that north Wales, the history of north Wales, the industrial landscapes of north Wales, all of that has a story to tell, and it is about focusing that story as a part of the national museum, telling the story of north Wales and…
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I'll ask Jason to say a bit more about that.
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Yes, which is why we've ended up, basically, taking it back in-house, because that was very clearly in Amgueddfa's remit letter. It was a programme for government commitment. It was something that we agreed to develop and we had terrible trouble actually…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Well—
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Yes, and it absolutely is about a prioritisation programme, because, again, we are working with limited resources, so there has to be prioritisation within that. Certainly, allocation of Sport Wales grants, that is part of the consideration in grant funding…
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A bit of both, a bit of both. So, the Sport Wales activity tracker gives us an idea of how well some of those projects are going. I think they published it yesterday. It was circulated I think yesterday to colleagues, so it might be worth you having a look at…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
It is challenging. It remains challenging, and all of it has to be funded, doesn’t it, of course. But it is still happening. So, it’s still included in my remit letter to Sport Wales. So, there are several cross-Government actions: so, we’ve got…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Please do, please do.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Yes, I'll be very quick. So, Amgueddfa Cymru were initially developing the plans for a museum of north Wales. That didn't progress as quickly as we had hoped it would, and there were other issues going on in the museum and there were other priorities there…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
The museum of north Wales—
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It is still our intention to take it forward, at the moment, Carolyn. We have reduced the budget that was going to be available for next year, but there is still money allocated to progress the national contemporary art gallery. But what we are doing with the…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
We have engaged with the WLGA on this, because, obviously, although local authority museums and leisure services don't fall in my portfolio—. I know it's quite a strange division. So, we set policy, but funding of local authority leisure and sport and culture…
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Well, that did happen last year, of course, because that was exactly the conversation we had with them, which is why we had to allocate an additional £5 million of capital last year and another £5 million capital this year for those immediate repairs—those…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
I think the evidence that the national museum gave to this committee was alluding to that. I don't think they were saying—. The roof isn't in imminent danger of collapse, so to speak, but they know that if they don't do some work on the building now, it's…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
At the time when we had the tailored review, we would have looked at the recommendations and there would have been a budget allocated to go alongside that. The budget situation has changed, so that's made us have to sit back and review that. But there are…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
It's doing the emergency work and prioritising the emergency work as best we can, yes.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
It is, at the moment, Llyr. That absolutely is what we’re doing. We have allocated capital funding for the national library. And again, this is about securing collections as well. The national library is a beautiful building up there on the hill in…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Again, the short answer is 'no, they're not'. I think I answered a question from Tom about this last week in the Senedd. So, what we did last year was we did give an additional £5 million as capital to the museum last year. There's a further £5 million…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Ah, yes.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Well, indeed. They are looking at it, and it is actually one of the things that we've been talking to the museum about over a number of years, as we have with the library. And sometimes it's—what's the saying about necessity being the mother of invention…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
I have said to the national museum that they need to go away and explore that. Again, we've had this conversation with all of our arm's-length bodies, about how they can generate more income. The national library have actually employed somebody directly to…
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And they already have.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy
Jason wants to say something.
