, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Are they in place in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland or other parts of Europe?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. If you look now to, again, some questions that Peter asked, and I'm sort of following on, so apologies for that. I hope not to go through anything the same. We've heard that the made affirmative procedure is historically very unusual. We talked…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
I agree with you, but that's complying with the law, either international or the law as interpreted by a court. I don't think any of us have any problem with doing that. What I have a problem with, and I'm sure others do, is that some time in the future…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Going back to an answer you gave to Peter Fox earlier—and you said you were thinking about it—the position of bringing in retrospective before a warning or a statement in the Senedd, or some means by which people can know you're thinking about it or you're…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, it should have been brought in at the same time?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Sorry, I crave your indulgence, Chair, but what has happened in the last four years that means this is now important and four years ago it wasn't?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
I thought I was specific, but I obviously wasn't. What has happened in the four years since we brought in the GAAR that means that we need this?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Finally from me, what has happened in the last four years that has taken us from thinking the GAAR was the answer to everything to the need for this legislation?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
When the GAAR came in—you weren't Minister, so you can't be held responsible; your predecessor was—we were told in this committee, probably by some, if not all, of the same officials, that this was a means of avoiding anybody engaging in tax avoidance. This…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
I didn't say 'replication', did I? I just said that a Bill that reduced the tax on some or all people would not cause any great discussion or opposition. That was the point I was trying to make. There's a big difference between what you did in reducing it and…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Isn't there a fundamental difference between suspending a tax and increasing it or taking action that would alter it? Very few people, if any, are going to complain that their tax has been reduced or removed. Quite a lot of people would want to complain and…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Government funding
They've got to provide care; it's a statutory requirement. If they don't do that, they're breaking the law—the Gloucester judgment, as Sam will tell you.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Government funding
I'm very pleased that, at the last Senedd election, we had a large number of councillors who had been council leaders, like Sam Rowlands, deputy leaders and cabinet members elected to the Senedd—people who know first-hand the importance of local government…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Local Government elections
The current system means mainly relatively small wards and increased contact between electors and elected. It means that when you go out to get your newspaper, go shopping, visit a local sports club, or walk down the street, you interact with voters. STV is…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
I very much welcome the statement and the announcement. I start off from the belief that everyone in Wales should be paid at least the real living wage, and I think that's something that we need to be pushing in every possible way we can. The second thing I…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I have a request for two Government statements. First, I'm asking for a Government statement on the provision of 3G and 4G sports pitches in Wales and plans to increase the number across Wales. I cannot stress too much the importance of 3G and 4G pitches…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
That's me finished.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
And my last question: you've got people who need minor modifications to their homes, and can I just say what a good job Care & Repair do on that? My father-in-law was a recipient of that fairly recently, so 'thank you' from our family. But some people need…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
I've got two very brief things. Do you agree that health, care and housing should be the three legs rather than health and care only being two of them?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
Thank you. Can I—? Joyce wants to come in.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
Thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with the housing sector
As Chris knows, because we've had this discussion over the last 11 years, or perhaps even longer, I believe that housing is very important for people coming out of hospital into adequate housing. But I'm not supposed to answer the question as well as ask it…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with third sector organisations
And finally from me, I'm very keen on reablement. Too many people come out of hospital, they get sent to a care home, they were okay before they went into hospital, they've lost capacity and muscle strength when they were in hospital, they're sent to a care…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with third sector organisations
What I meant was specifically about third sector organisations. As people working in the third sector know, just before Christmas, three months' notice is given fairly regularly to staff because there's no continuity of budget certainty, and then when they…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with third sector organisations
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Two quick points from me. I heard what Jake Smith said earlier about funding and annual funding. Has the move to three-year budgets been of any benefit to you?
