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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Sure, but I'm also thinking not just of the impact on you, I'm thinking of the impact on the speed of getting through planning applications for developers.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
And it's the applicants who are saying 'no', is it, or NRW?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Could I just follow that up? In your evidence, you mentioned that you're struggling to meet the demand for windfarm developments and other renewables, because you're not able to give Natural Resources Wales the information they need as quickly as they do it…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Being alert is the important thing. Thank you.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Well, every four years is not a spot check.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Would that include spot checks?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
So, what would be the oversight process for that?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Yes, but the principle of having oversight to make sure those cultures and procedures are followed through—
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Well, logically, what you just said to me was that—
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
And are you considering an oversight board, then, for the rest of the sector?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. Very good. It's good to see that there's balance. Just in terms of the learning from that whole WRU experience for the rest of the sector, how have you sought to apply those lessons to the organisations that you fund?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
And she's the only one who's not a dame.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. That's active, is it?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
On the Rafferty oversight board, do you have any sense of how often that's been used, of cases referred to it?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. And just to close, I'm going to pivot onto a different subject, which is just a progress report on the way the WRU are getting on in implementing the recommendations made to it, and if you have a view on how they're doing with that.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
So, you see it as separate from the funding considerations, do you?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Do you think it might because of the funding situation?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Let's not, but if you could just give us the headline.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. And then, just one other quick question, as you mentioned earlier the impact on your partner bodies of the funding squeeze. I'm aware there's some concern in the sector that the stand-alone Welsh bodies may find it increasingly hard to sustain an…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
So, it might not be practical for you, but you still think it might be practical for the Welsh Government to do it themselves?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. Then, in a separate point, you mentioned that you found Derek Walker's argument of some preventative spend superficially attractive but would need to think it through. I guess the same argument could apply to you as an organisation. How practical would…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Yes, just some snappy ones really, just to pick up on some of the things you've said. So, on your point about the clawback of any privately funded money that you had raised being prohibited by the remit letter, would you welcome that being removed from the…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay, thank you.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay.
