, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Thank you. It looks like we'll want to return to this when there's more information.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Thank you. Tom, before we come back to you, I believe Hefin wants to come in on this point.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Tom, just before you carry on, Llyr wants to come in on this point, if that's all right.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. We will move on to Tom Giffard.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Some of those issues we will perhaps want to explore in more detail. Alun wants to come in.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Thank you for that. I know that you are balancing several different things in terms of the decisions you're making, but can you talk us through how artistic excellence factors into the decisions that you make in terms of who to award funding to?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Thank you very much. If it's okay we'll go straight into questions with you. Great. We'll talk first of all about the investment review, and I know that there are some issues that you won't be able to go into detail on this morning, but with regard to the…
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Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
Thank you very much. Dafydd.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales - Autumn 2023
So, we'll move straight on to our evidence session this morning, and this is scrutiny of the Arts Council of Wales. I'll ask witnesses to introduce themselves for the record, and I'll go from right to left. Maggie first.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. I'd like to extend a warm welcome to this meeting of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee. I'll ask first of all whether any Members have any declarations of interest to make. I see that there…
, Plenary
& 13. The general principles of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill
I'd like to add my thanks, as the Chair said, to Mark Southgate, our witnesses, and also to the committee team and Chair for their expertise. Thank you, Minister, for this opportunity to discuss the general principles of the Infrastructure Bill. Today, I…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Ambulance delays are now so expected and normal that a hospital in my area has had to install fans outside its accident and emergency department to try to disperse the air pollution coming from the exhausts of waiting emergency vehicles. The health board has…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, First Minister. First Minister, the child poverty rates in my area are a testament of shame. Thirty-six per cent of children in Merthyr live in poverty, and 35 per cent in Caerphilly. Behind those statistics are children who are growing up to go…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. Will the First Minister make a statement on child poverty rates in South Wales East? OQ60397
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
So, I propose, under Standing Order 17.42, that we resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting for item 7. Are you content? We will await to hear that we are in private.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Members, we'll now move to item 3, papers to note. We have papers to note on Wales-Ireland relations. Are there any comments on those papers? Are you happy to note? Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
Thank you, you too.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
We're extremely grateful for your time. Thank you very much.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
Thank you, and again we would implore the bank, please, to reverse the decision. We will be sending a transcript to you of the call this morning to check that it's a fair record of the transcript. Diolch yn fawr iawn ichi. Thank you very much for being with…
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HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
Thank you for that, Jose. And you've mentioned there were a number of technical questions that we'd asked on certain statistical matters, like the specific number of calls from Wales on a daily basis and things like that. Would you be happy to write to the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
Okay. Well—. Yes, Carolyn.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
Okay. Could you tell us, please, Jose, when you expect that those services, digitally, will be available in Welsh? Because of AI, that is developing that field very rapidly. Do you have a timescale for when the app will be available or could be available in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
Diolch. Alun, did you want to come in?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
We'll go to Hefin first, actually. We'll go to Hefin first.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
HSBC UK Welsh Service Line: evidence session with HSBC UK
Okay. Thank you for that. We'll turn to Alun for a brief question and then to Hefin.
