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—?
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Does the representative from Cardiff wish to say something on this, because they have live experience?
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
I just want to ask one specific question to anybody who wants to answer it, really, just for me with what I find is the confusion in the rules. As I understand it, you can use the grant to refurbish a site, but you can't use the grant to maintain a site. Is…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Diolch. Robert from Pembrokeshire wants to come in.
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Thank you. Before we come to the other hand up, can I just press you on that, Elliw? There's been an uptick in applications—does that indicate, do you think, that relationships are improving and that the situation is strengthening?
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. Does anybody else have any contributions they'd like to make on the way that the capital grant can be used or how the rules could be streamlined?
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Okay. Can I just jump in? Thank you. So, I understand both sides of the point of view here, I'm just trying to grapple towards a solution. If there is concern from the Government that local authorities need to have genuine skin in the game, and on the other…
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. So, on the point about feasibility, I can see the prima facie case for allowing feasibility costs to be used for the grant, but let me just play devil's advocate here a little, because the weight of the evidence we've heard this morning is…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
Sure, and that's what I'm trying to test with the witnesses. So, is it fair to say that there's a low or inconsistent understanding of the what the guidance says, or would it be helpful to clarify it? That's what I'm trying to tease out here; I'm not trying…
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
So, I'm not surprised that there's misunderstanding. I just want to clarify: do you think it is fair to say there is low understanding?
3 October 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers: Follow up —Evidence session 2
So, it's fair to say that there's a low level of understanding amongst local authorities of what this grant can be used for. Would that be fair?
