, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Thanks to Carolyn for that. Yes, we do expect broadly the same level of investment in the cross-cutting aspects of international engagement, and they do cover a very wide range of things. I referred earlier to the Ireland-Wales forum that we agreed on St…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
I have more detail here on the Wales in Germany programme, so I'm sure it would be easier for me to provide that in writing to you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
They are funded from more than one source. Of course, the arts council has its own budget, but they can draw funding from my funding pot when they do specific things where we are seeking to develop things in the international arena. Just to give you an…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
I'm happy to write to you, Chair. We've already agreed to provide an annual report to the committee on the work of the international offices. And that is retrospective, of course—it is feedback on what has happened. But I would be happy to write to the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
On the one hand, everything that underpins the strategy that was drawn up in the context of Brexit remains. We know that we as a small nation have to do more in the current context in order to raise Wales's profile internationally, and to work as hard as we…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Well, of course, every part of the budget has its own objectives and KPIs, so I would take up the whole of the half hour if I was to go through the whole budget. Can I just give a couple of examples to help the committee to understand? In diaspora engagement…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
So, within the first part of the budget, the £3.22 million for international relations, that is essentially allocated for internal management purposes to the four headings of the four action plans that underpin our international strategy. So, I want to be…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
I can do. So, the budget is broken down into two main areas: £3.22 million will be allocated to international engagement, and I can break that down further for you if that's helpful; the remainder part of the budget, the £5.434 million, will support the work…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
And Paula too.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Good morning. Mark Drakeford, First Minister. If I could ask Andrew to introduce himself next.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I thank Jenny Rathbone for that, Llywydd. Because of the sort of lag in the way that statistics are produced, we will see the first update on progress towards the 125,000 target in February this year, when data for the fourth quarter of the 2020-21 academic…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Jenny Rathbone for that, Llywydd. We are committed to expanding apprenticeships in Wales against our programme for government commitment to create 125,000 over this Senedd term. We will focus on quality apprenticeships, supporting jobs growth…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I am happy, of course, to look at the specific issue of self-catering accommodation. I'll write to the Member when I've had a chance to do that. Let me just repeat: it is not the Welsh Government that has caused the difficulties for businesses. It is…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank the Member for that question. Llywydd, the Welsh Government has made unprecedented levels of funding available to Welsh businesses through the pandemic, including the most recent £120 million economic resilience fund and non-domestic rates packages…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I'm sure that Delyth Jewell is right about the anger that is felt by people. We will all have read those really heartrending stories of people who, on the day that parties were being organised in Downing Street, when discos were being organised…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I meet regularly with UK Government Ministers and leaders of the other devolved Governments to discuss the response to COVID-19. When they take place, I attend heads of Government COBRA meetings, and I've written today to the Prime Minister…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much to Jane Dodds, and I agree, of course. The things that we can do in the short term—and we have worked hard with local authorities in order to create the scheme that I referred to in my response to Carolyn Thomas—. It is important that that…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Carolyn Thomas for that evidence from the front line of the cost-of-living crisis. Last week, I remember we talked about the Resolution Foundation report on the cost-of-living catastrophe. Since then, we've seen the Institute for Fiscal Studies report…
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Questions to the First Minister
Such advice is available to all households in Wales through our Warm Homes programme Nest scheme. Additional advice and support is offered to vulnerable households in areas at greatest risk of fuel poverty through our energy advice services pilot. These areas…
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Questions to the First Minister
I understand the urgency of the issue. It's why the Welsh Government will pay for the training of local authorities on the habitats regulation assessment process, including a specific component on phosphorous matters. But, the urgency is on two fronts: there…
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Questions to the First Minister
The programme for government sets out our commitment to building 20,000 new low-carbon homes for social rent in this Senedd term. A record £250 million was allocated to the social housing grant in this financial year, doubling the budget of 2020-21. The first…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Vikki Howells for that. I've had a chance myself to look at the report of the Association of Convenience Stores and it does, as Vikki Howells said, make really interesting reading. Wales has more shops per head of the population than any other UK…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Vikki Howells for that question. Our priorities for the retail sector in Cynon Valley, as elsewhere, include a clear commitment to fair work policies and career progression in order to attract the workforce that will be needed in the future. We also…
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Questions to the First Minister
It's a very powerful charge list that the leader of Plaid Cymru sets out there, and anybody seeing them put together in that way will certainly see that what lies behind it is a Government that is utterly reckless about a rules-based approach to public…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, the absence of respect for Wales is clear within the UK Government. I'm sure, as Adam Price said, that Nadine Dorries hadn't given a moment's thought to the impact of her announcement on the Welsh language here in Wales. I saw what Professor Richard Wyn…
