9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
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?
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Do you think it might because of the funding situation?
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
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.
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
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…
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
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?
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
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…
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
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…
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay, thank you.
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay.
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
But I would assume their instinct is going to be to protect elite sport first.
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Sure, it's in your evidence. Yes, that's in your evidence.
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
I just want to test the arguments, really. Obviously, you’re having a reduction in funding, which you don’t want, and I understand that, and the group you’re choosing to illustrate the impact of this most on is disadvantaged groups, when actually you could…
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
So, you could have chosen to protect participation funding in this round.
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay.
9 October 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Yes. I just want to explore this issue a bit, because obviously nobody wants your funding to go down, least of all you, and there's going to be an adverse impact somewhere, clearly. But in terms of this argument that you're advancing that it's going to…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Okay. Thank you.
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
I just wonder, just reflecting, there's a general agreement, isn't there, with the WLGA to look to try and reduce the micromanagement of funds as much as possible, and to allow local authorities to have flexibility to not spend time on lots of complying with…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Well, the other issue that we then touched upon this morning was the maintenance issue, where a grant can be used to upgrade facilities, but not to maintain the facilities. And the evidence was that that is quite an unhelpful distinction for some sites where…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Okay. I wanted to come on to maintenance, but let me just finish on feasibility, because we had evidence from Monmouthshire this morning, who clearly are willing and are on board with trying to improve sites, but they gave evidence of how the upfront costs of…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Okay. Well, it may be, and I don't want to anticipate what we might suggest, that some clarity around that might be helpful. Why are you so opposed to feasibility being funded as part of the grant?
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up—Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
[Inaudible.]—see if there is progress, and we've had some useful evidence this morning, I think, that can help perhaps accelerate some of that. I just want to touch on the capital grant for Gypsy, Traveller sites, and it's good to see that the applications…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you.
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Okay. I wonder if anybody else who deals with larger sites has experience of this barrier.
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Oh. From the south-east—who do we have from the south-east?
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Chair, could I ask the representative from Cardiff specifically how they deal with this, as they are a—?
