, Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Everybody I know who is working for you actually speaks Welsh fluently, so I'm sure you've got an awful lot of Welsh speakers there. The final bit is: the Bill permits visitor accommodation providers to allow third parties to make returns and pay the levy on…
, Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
I mean, you're experienced in collecting money, with land transaction tax and the landfill disposals tax, for example. Will the processes be very similar to that for collecting the levy?
, Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Maybe the sound wasn’t loud enough, or I’m not talking loudly enough. A theme from the Welsh Government’s consultation summary of responses is the potential for the legislation to place an administrative burden on smaller accommodation providers. Why would it…
, Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Diolch, Cadeirydd. What I’d start by saying is that a lot of what we’ve heard is as if we’re the first place in the world to do it. As seen from the Welsh Government consultation summary responses, there is the potential for legislation to place an…
, Plenary
Debate on the Finance Committee Report, 'Financial Transactions Capital'
I'm glad, following my suggestion, that the Finance Committee agreed to undertake a short inquiry into financial transactions capital. Too often here, financial transactions capital has been something that's happening over which we have very little discussion…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Stroke Prevention Day is Thursday 30 January. Strokes happen suddenly, usually without warning. I attend two local stroke groups, one in Morriston and one in Trallwn, with people from their early 30s who have had a stroke…
, Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I also want to outline the good work being done by the Swansea Canal Society. The canal was constructed between 1794 and 1798, running for 16 and a half miles from Swansea to Abercraf. Today, only 5 miles of Swansea canal is fully navigable, from Clydach to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary for his reply? I've been a long-time supporter of invest-to-save. I support the provision of interest-free loans with flexible payback periods to public services, with the aim of helping them to transform the way they work…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
3. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the invest-to-save scheme? OQ62195
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Can I now move, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(vi), that I invite the committee to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting? Do Members agree? We now move into private session.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Right. Correspondence from the Scottish Parliament’s Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee: framework legislation and Henry VIII powers. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee writes to express thanks for the evidence provided by the committee, in…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Any comments, Kate? No. Okay. Gareth.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Item 6, papers to note. Correspondence with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: legislative consent memoranda on the Water (Special Measures) Bill. This item concerns correspondence with the Deputy First…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Correspondence from the Welsh Government: meetings of inter-ministerial groups. Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: the Interministerial Group for Trade, 20 January 2025. The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Thank you very much. Are we happy to note the Welsh Government response? Yes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Item 4, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered. The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025. The…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you. Do Members have anything to add? No. Are we happy to agree the reporting points? Yes. The Land Transaction Tax (Modification of Relief for Acquisitions Involving Multiple Dwellings) (Wales) Regulations 2025. These regulations amend the Land…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Yes, it's a good job we're here to help them. Do any Members want to add anything? No. The Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025. These regulations amend the Procurement Act 2023 and the Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Do Members have anything to add? No. Affirmative resolution instruments: the Social Care Wales (Specification of Social Care Workers) (Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, paper 3 in the draft report. These regulations amend the 2016 regulations…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025, draft report. These regulations amend various regulations that make provision…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
On to item 2, instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3: the Civil Enforcement of Bus Lane and Moving Traffic Contraventions (County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil) Designation Order 2025. This Order enables Merthyr Tydfil County…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da, good afternoon. Welcome to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. No apologies have been received today. Three other Members are present here, and Laura Anne Jones has joined us online. On behalf of the committee, I…
, Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
On a general point regarding the things you've said about that, how many countries have stopped their tourism tax, and how many countries have done what you've done with real, live figures to see the effect it's having?
, Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay. I would just end on this: Cornwall is a lot more expensive than Wales. It’s certainly a lot more expensive than the parts of north Wales I go to, and it's a lot, lot more expensive than Blackpool, and we are not seeing that movement of people to…
