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Short Debate: A construction skills system fit for the future
Having the right labour market intelligence is essential to inform our policy making. Our universities, too, must be aligned in this sector so we have the right pathways for students to transition to higher education in specific construction disciplines and…
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Short Debate: A construction skills system fit for the future
Construction is a key sector of the Welsh economy, and skills in the construction sector are a catalyst for boosting economic growth and accelerating competitiveness. But we need a Welsh workforce with the right skills to maximise these opportunities, and…
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Short Debate: A construction skills system fit for the future
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to Joyce Watson for the opportunity to respond to her debate on the construction skills system fit for the future. And I thank her and Mike Hedges for their contributions. We need an effective skills system…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
The point of engaging with the sector is to hear the concerns that the sector raises to us, and we've had constructive discussions, including on some of the issues that the Member touches upon, but the truth of the matter is that the best way to protect and…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
Well, I don't accept that at all. I'll come on to address that specifically in a moment. We're committed to taking action to support our communities and to address the impact of second homes and unaffordable housing in communities right across Wales, and this…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
But, our tourism industry is mature and experienced, and still has the capacity to grow. Our industry tells us that growth must serve to sustain and not threaten the things that matter most to us and, indeed, to tourists, and we need to work together in a way…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to Members for contributing to this afternoon's debate. Let me start by restating our commitment as a Government to tourism and to the broader visitor economy. Our ambition as a Government is to grow tourism for the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Tourism
Formally.
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Topical Questions
Yes. I just want to acknowledge the point that Jack Sargeant has made in his question about the range of businesses in his constituency and right across north Wales and beyond, and I see the Cabinet Secretary for north Wales also, in his seat, acknowledging…
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Topical Questions
Well, if I may say, that was a remarkable level of boosterism, even for the Member for Aberconwy. I think it's important to have a level of perspective about what we're discussing. I think it is important—. She makes a very important point about the need for…
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Topical Questions
I thank the Member for her question and I think she ends on the point that Rhun ap Iorwerth made in his supplementary question as well. And I think what we want to see is the level of detail that enables this proposal to be properly assessed and evaluated. I…
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Topical Questions
I thank Rhun ap Iorwerth for that further question. Apart from a brief phone call yesterday afternoon, we weren't given advance notice of the UK Government's announcement. It is important to welcome progress, however modest that progress may be. What the…
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Topical Questions
[Inaudible.]—UK Government, and we welcome today's statement that Wylfa is the preferred site in developing a nuclear power station in north Wales. This recognises what many of us in this Senedd have known for some time. We look forward to seeing the detail…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
So, if we cast our minds back, a very significant piece of work was undertaken, led by the Welsh Government, but working with partners in the regions, universities, businesses, right across Wales, and which was discussed and debated a lot in the Senedd…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Certainly.
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
There are aspects of the trade portfolio in mine, but the overall international relations is for the First Minister.
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Thanks for the suggestion. Can I make a broader, slightly political point, perhaps, in answer to what Llyr was saying? I mean, there is a reason why this isn't fully dealt with in the TCA. There clearly is. The European Union will say, as we've talked about…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Just two points. On the specific point from the creative industries' point of view, there have been initiatives like the global screen fund, which the UK Government has set up, to try and plug some of the gaps that have otherwise arisen, and, actually…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
I think that what's happened, in terms of the creative sectors, is that the changes in the European landscape have minimised that opportunity as compared to what would have been possible otherwise. But the sector has always had an international focus, I would…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes. Well, the issues that we're discussing today are a subset of that more generally, aren't they? So, our priority as a Government to support the creative sector is clear, I think, from the evidence that we've given today. We see that there is a huge…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Well, we have those relations already. The EU's formal relationship with the United Kingdom is through the UK Government, and that's obviously going to be the case. I was making the case in the discussion with Alun Davies earlier for a different approach to…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
A strategy for what, did you say?
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
I do think we shouldn't underestimate the point that Alun Davies was making earlier about that network of connections at a European Union level being really important. So, Taith is an example, but also, now that we are back in Horizon, there are opportunities…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Clearly, the loss of access to what, when I was in the sector, was called the media programme, but it’s called Creative Europe now, has been a significant loss, both for the creative industries, but also, as I understand it, for the culture sector as well…
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Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
My reflection, having been there when it was put in place, and having picked up responsibility for it again, is that, in a sense, both those propositions can be true, can't they? So, the former First Minister saying, ‘This is the world that we are in today…
