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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
Of course, if I was living in Ystradgynlais, I would think the whole system is incredibly unfair. Under the old European Union system, Powys is one of the poorer parts of Wales, yet it's treated as east Wales, and, Ystradgynlais, when you cross a bridge…
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
Ed, sorry.
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
I think Gareth wanted to say something.
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. The UK shared prosperity fund uses a three-step process to allocate funding to places, making allocations to each nation to ensure a real-terms match of European Union structural funds. Do you think that's happening? You've talked about…
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
And I'm sure we can find a friendly MP who'll ask that question.
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
Well, if you've got £100 million to spend, you've committed £100 million, you've got a project of £50 million, which has been completed, £25 million has been paid, and the other £25 million, the work has been done, but the payment has not physically gone out.
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
Coming back to what David said just then, that's a big difference when you've made the accruals, and you can show these on our accounts as accruals, as opposed to actually having made the payment. Now, quite often, you do staged payments on projects, and you…
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 1
Thank you very much.
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 1
Okay, thank you. Finally from me, the funding allocated to each place is calculated using the population UK community renewal fund index and the Welsh index of multiple deprivation. Do you accept that as the best way of going forward? If it was up to you…
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 1
Thank you. Can I move on now to the creation of the taskforce with the UK Government and the four local government associations? Do you think that's working well?
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 1
Thank you. Moving on, the UK Government is meeting its commitment to replacing EU funds, it says. Is that true? Are we going to get the same money in local authority areas across Wales as we had under European Union funding?
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Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 1
Just going back to something Tim said earlier about on-the-shelf projects, my experience of on-the-shelf projects is they were the next set of priorities where there was not sufficient funding, so being able to bring them off the shelf to be able to bid was a…
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Papers to note
Diolch yn fawr.
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Papers to note
On 2.6, the letter from PCS, have you taken any action?
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I chair the cross-party group on the Public and Commercial Services Union.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Local Government Elections
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I welcome the Minister's statement. I congratulate all councillors elected at the election, whatever party. I know all of them will do their best for their constituents over the next five years. I also believe that a…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Welsh Housing Quality Standard 2
I speak as someone who was brought up in a council house. I very warmly welcome this statement. The original Welsh housing quality standard has worked, and has worked very well. It has driven up the quality of social housing in Wales, both council and…
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Questions to the First Minister
Can I thank the First Minister for that response? Can I ask him to go a stage further and will he condemn the use of fire and rehire, and agree that it has no place in Wales and certainly no place in Welsh public services? Will the Welsh Government refuse to…
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Questions to the First Minister
6. What assessment has the First Minister made of the use of fire and rehire by companies in Wales? OQ57993
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Welsh Economy
The Welsh economy has not performed well either before or after devolution. When the Assembly opened in 1999, online retail was in its infancy, it was eight years before the first iPhone, five years before YouTube came online, computer games generated a…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Welsh Economy
You meant candidates.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Welsh Economy
Thank you very much for doing that. Will you agree that one of the other things we've got is lower rateable values in Wales so that the actual amount paid in Wales is quite often less than it would be in England or Scotland?
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Questions to the Senedd Commission
Will the Commission unequivocally condemn the use of fire and rehire, and will the Commission say that any funded contractor to the Commission that uses such method of reducing terms and conditions of employees will no longer be allowed to tender and be part…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Quoting Jack Monroe: 'I did a £10 food shop in 2012...and re-did the exact same shop' in 2022, 'and it came to £17.11.' That's over a 70 per cent increase. Neither the minimum wage nor benefits have gone up anywhere near that level. Even with the change by…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
6. What assessment has the Minister made of the effect of inflation on people living on low incomes? OQ57954
