, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Can I just touch on the issue of acquisitions, particularly in areas of shortage? So, we’ve seen the trial of increasing council tax in areas with high levels of second homes, and we read that there is now a glut of property on the market in some of those…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I take your point that an annual survey may not be terribly revealing. Is there a cycle that would be more instructive—every three years, every four years?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
One million pounds to £2 million sounds like a lot of money, but in the scale of the amount of spend on housing, it's a very small amount. Do you have a rough scale of how much you spend on monitoring and evaluation? Because I don't really see how we can…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Could I just come in there?
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, there's no disguising the fact that the closure of the blast furnace is a disaster for the Welsh economy and no package can compensate for that. It is a disaster. Those who engaged with the management of Tata in the UK have…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. Putting aside the planning issues, this project—Cardiff parkway—was initially proposed to be entirely led by the private sector, and a new railway station funded by the private sector. My understanding is that the last costs were at…
, Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Eluned Morgan.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Paper(s) to note
I agree with that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay. Because in a past life at the Institute of Welsh Affairs, I used to run the media policy, which did the initial studies, and that was done for hundreds of pounds not £250,000. So, I'd urge caution about how much money is put into that for the outputs…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay. So, that's roughly, what, then, £250,000?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
On top of the £100,000. Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay, thank you. As we're short of time, I'm keen if you can follow up the detail on that. But just to understand the big picture, the money for the broadcasting panel, how much did you set aside for that?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Well, sure, there's a relationship, but the purpose of the funding was for broadcasting and media policy development, wasn't it, rather than more money for skills development, if I understand it right?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
So, that's not about broadcasting, though, is it? That's about creative industries.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
What does that do, sorry?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
What is that £1 million needed for?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you. I just want to touch on broadcasting and media. Just to understand, in the draft budget, there's £1 million set for broadcasting and £100,000 for journalism. I realise that this is a consequence of the co-operation agreement.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Yes.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
I'm happy to hold back and keep mine brief.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
You can rely on me.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Yes, just to to clarify, and Celf ar y Cyd, I must say, is new to me, but, looking at it now, it is very good indeed. So, you're clearly in an invidious budget position, and I think you're right to literally fix the roof. So, I think that is a sensible…
, Plenary
Group 6: Publication of notices (Amendment 19)
Just briefly, I think it's important we don't confuse means and ends here. I think the ends we want to see are to support local journalism. Subsidising impenetrable adverts is not the way to do that. We want to support accessibility for people to information…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 10
Okay, perhaps we can just have a little side note on that.
