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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Thank you for that. One of the people—it was Louise, I think, from Creu Cymru in our previous session—mentioned how, currently, if a theatre or somewhere is trying to decide on what acts to book, she's seeing more and more people turning to things such as…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Thank you for that. And finally from me, in terms of the impact of the reductions in the funding available to the books council to distribute grants, what impact has that reduction had, do you think, on media content for people in Wales? What are the impacts…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Thank you for that. And in terms of magazines, therefore, those long-standing magazines, in your processes to decide which ones will receive funding, to what extent is their legacy considered as part of the assessing grant applications process?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Thank you. We'll move on to Laura.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Thank you very much. We'll move to Carolyn.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Thank you for that, Helgard. We'll go to Heledd.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Thank you very much, and we'll go straight into questions if you're happy with that. We're all aware, of course, of the impact in general on the arts and that the arts are suffering due to funding restrictions. What's the impact in terms of those reductions…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Well, thank you for that and for giving us that clarification. So, we'll go straight to our next evidence session, and I'll ask Helgard to introduce herself for the record, please.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)
Welcome back to today's meeting, where we will continue to take evidence for the committee's inquiry on the impact of funding reductions for culture and sport. Before we turn to the Books Council of Wales, I'll go to Heledd, who wants to make a statement.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Members, we'll take a short break of nine minutes, if Members can be back before 10:40, thank you.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Thank you so much, and we'll be in touch with some follow-up questions. Thank you very much indeed, all of you, for your time.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Thank you very much to you all. It's been very useful this morning. Thank you very much for your time. A transcript of what's been said will be sent to you to check for factual accuracy, and there are a number of questions we would like to have asked, but…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Thank you very much. We are out of time, so we'll be writing to you all, please, with some of the questions that we didn't have time to get to. Could I, cheekily, ask, even though we are out of time, if any of you have any burning points that you would like…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Yes, certainly.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Okay. I misinterpreted your cheer as your hand. Hannah or Sharon, did you want to add anything?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Diolch, Louise. Naomi, you wanted to come in.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
That's a nice challenge, yes.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
I’ll bring Louise in now. But if—because I’m sure that witnesses would like to write to use with more detail—there are particular organisations that you work with in other nations that you could point to, where you think we should be learning from examples…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
And that was a really fascinating idea that’s come up before as well, that the arts council has called for culture and sports support to become a statutory responsibility. So, it’s really interesting that you’ve made that point. Naomi, I know you wanted to…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
We have six minutes left, and I'm sure that other witnesses would be very keen to come in on Alun's bombshell question. Who would like to come in on this? Sharon.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Louise, do you want to go first? Alun is looking intently at you, Louise, so I'm going to call you first.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Would anyone else like to come in? Louise.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Thank you for that. We have fifteen minutes left. Perhaps we'll be running a few minutes late, after 10:30, if that's okay with everybody. I'll go finally to Alun.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Thank you, Hannah. And Naomi.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
Anyone else want to add anything? Hannah.
