, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Well, again, it's one of the first and most basic considerations that a Minister has to be satisfied on—that the Bill, where it does engage human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, then that it does so in a way that is proportionate and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Chair, yes, I am. As you can imagine, whenever a Government has a thought of legislating on a topic, one of the very first things that has to be provided—advice and satisfaction—is that it's within the competence of the Senedd to legislate, and the Llywydd…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
I can do it, Chair. Thank you very much. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. With me this afternoon is Anna Adams, who is deputy director for tax strategy and inter-governmental relations in the Welsh Government, and we have David Greenhough, who is…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
We can bring that back to the committee as well.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
And just to tell the committee, Chair, we were waiting for one thing in the original report, namely the work that has been done in the area of planning. That wasn't part of the report that Eluned Morgan launched in the Eisteddfod in August, but the report has…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Well, I had an opportunity to speak to Rebecca Evans yesterday. She responded to questions before one of the other committees about the future of Arfor, and she was eager to check with me what she had said, and what she told the committee was that we have…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Of course.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Well, the uplift will mean that there will be no menter iaith in Wales that has a budget of less than £100,000 next year and I think that is genuinely significant. It’s important, I think, just to remind the committee that the funding available to mentrau…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Well, the grant didn't go up over those years because the Welsh Government's budget was not going up. Halfway through the period of austerity there was a significant increase in the level of investment in the mentrau iaith, and there have been one-off extra…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Yes, that's fine.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Sorry, I'm going to say this in English. The Bill will allow us a better opportunity to match the investment with the need. At the moment, anybody who wants to do the course is able to come forward, and that's great in its own way, but it doesn't necessarily…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
So, it has increased, and now we're keeping it flat, at where it is now. As we heard during the committee meetings at Stage 1, there are lots of things that schools are trying to deal with at present. It is difficult for schools to find the time, and funding…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Well, there was an increase in the budget for the current financial year.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Yes, teachers. We've taken money out to provide funding to do the work that Alun Davies refers to. One further point, because sometimes we haven't quite pursued this either: over the next decade, there will be fewer young people in our schools. We know that…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
—to start on that work. We have transferred money in the budget for the next financial year. So, we have drawn £1.1 million out of the funding that we have in the current financial year to put more funding into the national centre, but also for the other…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Wel, mi fwynheais i’r sesiynau ar y Bil yng Nghyfnod 1 a hefyd ar lawr y Senedd ddydd Mawrth. Un o’r pethau roedd y pwyllgor plant yn ei ddweud—. Roedden nhw'n tynnu sylw at bwysigrwydd cael cynllun i ddatblygu’r gweithlu yn gyffredinol, sy’n cynnwys addysg…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I do accept the point that Alun Davies makes. But, at the end of the day, if we want to do more in one area, we'll have to find the money by doing less in areas where the impact of the funding isn't as strong as it would be in other areas.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Well, that is going to be difficult, because there is nothing that we are doing at present that we don't think is important or makes a contribution to everything that we want to do in terms of 2050. So, if new things do emerge from the research, there will be…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Wrth gwrs. A dwi ddim yn mynd i ddweud, ‘Mae digon o arian gyda ni’, achos os oes mwy o arian gyda ni, mae mwy y gallwn ni ei wneud. Ond jest i ddweud, a gallaf droi at Jeremy i roi ymateb hefyd, roedd y Pwyllgor Cyllid wedi edrych yn fanwl ar y dogfennau tu…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Wel, I can say that the Minister with responsibility for the Welsh language is always making the case to the Minister responsible for funding for more resources. [Laughter.]
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you, Julie. Well, the fact that we're able to provide a 5 per cent uplift is part of the explanation that I was trying to offer to the question that Heledd asked about where the £3.5 million had been deployed. We're treating the Welsh Language…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
There is a challenge in further education. And as I say, I think about 20 per cent of learning in colleges involves the Welsh language, so that's a fair reflection, probably, of the population at large, but there is more that can be done and the extra money…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Well, I think it'll make its biggest impact in the ability of the college to do that job of supporting sectors, the post-16 education sector, to develop the provision that colleges provide, universities provide, through the medium of the Welsh language…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
That's no problem. We can provide that to you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
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