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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you. Can I just follow up on that? Why was the decision taken to cease practice you'd previously exercised whereby you were including a statement of cash flows?
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay, thank you. Can I invite Rhianon Passmore to take up the questions?
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay. My final question in this section relates to your reported earnings before interest, depreciation and amortisation, which was around £5 million lower in 2020-21 than the previous year. Why is this the case, since your loss before tax and exceptional…
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay. And were there any reductions that were the result of longer term efficiencies?
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you. In your letter to committee in January this year, you stated that you'd reduced your administrative expenses by around £9.5 million in 2021. How much of this reduction was the result of efficiencies or savings contributing to your future…
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
So, was the outcome pretty much what you expected?
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
I'm sorry. I think, sorry, you indicated that figures were tweaked. Were you anticipating—
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
And then you just, I think, indicated that you were periodically revisiting this after you joined, and were tweaking it. By the beginning of the financial year, what figures were you hoping to achieve?
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay. But the only firm projection that you had for that year was based upon a figure established before the pandemic. Is that—
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
In terms of the profit or loss.
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Can you tell us what the projection had been for the year?
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay, croeso, welcome back. I thank our witnesses for introducing yourselves. We have a number of questions to cover. I'd be grateful if both Members and witnesses could be as succinct as possible, so that we can cover the wide range of issues this topic has…
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you. [Interruption.] Sorry, we have the temporary gremlins again. We'll have another go.
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
And Mr Walters.
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you. Mr Harvey.
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay. Well, we return to public session. Again, I welcome our witnesses from Cardiff Airport. Thank you for being with us today. Could you please introduce yourselves—name and role—for the record, perhaps starting with Mr Birns?
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay. We'll just pause momentarily.
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Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
This moves us to the next item, which is focused on Cardiff Airport, and we have a number of witnesses in attendance remotely. We have Spencer Birns, Wayne Harvey and David—[Interruption.] Excuse me, we seem to have gremlins in the room, repeating what I'm…
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Papers to note
Thank you very much indeed.
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Papers to note
Okay. Bore da, croeso. Good morning and welcome to the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd. No apologies for today's meeting have been received from Members. Rhianon Passmore has indicated that she'll be joining us around 09:30…
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Statement by the Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee—Welsh Government Consolidated Accounts 2020-21
I fully agree with the first point. The second point, given that I’m speaking as Chair of a committee, perhaps I shouldn’t comment on. We'll be scrutinising these accounts in the future. But I get your general gist and the basis for your concern, because as…
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Statement by the Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee—Welsh Government Consolidated Accounts 2020-21
Thank you, Mike Hedges, a valued member of the committee, who of course has been party to the attempted scrutiny thus far of this important matter. I think, as I indicated, and as you know from participation in the committee, we hope that we'll be able to…
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Statement by the Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee—Welsh Government Consolidated Accounts 2020-21
At the time, the Auditor General for Wales also wrote to us, confirming this further delay and stating that he had asked for further information to be provided to him by Welsh Government officials by early January 2022. This was accepted by the committee, and…
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Statement by the Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee—Welsh Government Consolidated Accounts 2020-21
Diolch, Llywydd. Good afternoon and thank you to you, Llywydd, for the opportunity to make this statement today. Members may be aware that there has been a significant delay in signing off the Welsh Government’s 2020-21 annual accounts. To provide context…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Gender budgeting, as you know, promotes gender equity for women, men and gender-diverse groups. A survey by the Wales Tourism Alliance, UK Hospitality Cymru and the Professional Association of Self Caterers UK on the Welsh Government's proposals for…
