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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Update on the Deposit-return Scheme
Thank you, Minister, for your statement. We're clearly driving forward with the deposit-return scheme, but I simply don't think this Chamber or the general public, certainly Welsh families and Welsh businesses, truly understand what is coming next October…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
A final question, and I'll change the subject now. Minister, the closure of the listed places of worship grant scheme has left congregations facing significant extra costs. In June, I think I spoke about this and you promised an update on Cadw's assessment of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Thank you for that answer, and, as I think we agree, nobody disputes that journalism faces financial pressures, particularly in Wales, that viewing habits are changing and that Welsh language broadcasting should definitely be supported. And I refer to the…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Cabinet Minister, thank you for coming to the culture committee on Monday, where we discussed the shadow broadcasting and communications authority for Wales. I'd like to press you further on this, if I may. You referred in committee to the 2023 expert panel…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Papers to note
Can we come back to some of this? Because there are lots of questions I have. I can't just note them. Sorry.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Papers to note
There were loads of comments that I had, because this is completely new. So, it's the way that committees interact with each other and everything. So, yes, you've thrown me. I thought we were having a break and coming back to this. But it was just the way…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Papers to note
There are loads in here, though.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Papers to note
After the papers. Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Papers to note
Could we take a little bit of a break, like a one-minute break?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
I'll leave it there.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
We do have democracy reporters funded by the BBC. As a local councillor, I used to work with them quite regularly. Basically, what you guys are after is funding of more journalists who would look particularly at the work we do here in the Senedd. Again, it's…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
What will the Welsh viewer see?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
Okay, I still don't understand what the Welsh viewer will see as the difference. I don't see the status quo—. I just don't understand what the problem is with media in Wales, because it seems to be pretty robust, from my position anyway. What's the problem?…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
So, why aren't you having the influence that you need to on those boards, then?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
Okay, we'll probably respectfully disagree on that. The Silk commission suggested that, yes, Wales needed a devolved voice in BBC governance and particularly with S4C. So, would it not be the solution to push that and to make sure that there's a Welsh…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
In terms of devolving it, though, because that's just a money thing, isn't it, that BBC Wales have had substantial cuts and redundancies across all different areas of programming—. But devolving it won't solve the money problem. We know that the licence fee…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
But what does that actually mean to the viewers watching television? What is the actual gap? What's missing in terms of—? I think we have pretty good BBC Wales media, we have lots of journalist outlets. What's missing? I don't understand what's missing.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session
I'm going to swing you over to devolved broadcasting. You talked about devolved broadcasting as a response to a genuine gap in the current system, so could you just define what you mean by a genuine gap?
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Obviously, councils that have a lot of tourism have an enhanced population grant, which is exactly what's there to fund those issues, so we don't need another source of income. Do you agree or disagree?
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
When you talk about £1.30 a night, you need to add the VAT on that for a lot of businesses. That comes up to £1.57. If you do the calculation on £500 for a cheap week in a caravan in my constituency, that's £65 extra tax for a family of five or six. So…
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Will you accept an intervention?
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Tourism in Wales is not a 'nice to have' on the margins of our economy, it is one of the load-bearing pillars of it. Welsh Government's own data shows that this sector directly supports more than 150,000 jobs—nearly 12 per cent of all employment in Wales—and…
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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Llywydd, I move the motion in the name of Llŷr Powell.
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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Diolch. For the record, I refer Members to my register of interests. Deputy Presiding Officer, I move the motion in the name of—. Hold on.
