1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
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1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you very much and, if you'd like to send us a note, I'm sure the Chair, like myself, would be quite keen to have any clarification you'd need to bring in on that. And the last question I've got: you've talked about building control and you've talked…
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you. What are the consequences of failing to apply the regulations as intended?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you. Moving on to financial management, what is the Welsh Government’s response to the finding that councils appear not to be applying the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010 as intended?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you. Moving on to local authorities working together, the Scottish hub model, do you see advantages to either of those? You have talked about collaboration between local authorities, and you've also said about Swansea and Cardiff having a greater…
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you very much. What's the Welsh Government's view on why few enforcement actions are referred to councils from the private sector, and does it intend to do anything about it?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Yes.
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
That helps very much; thank you. Has the Welsh Government received the UK Government's research, referred to in its response to the auditor general's recommendation on the mixed market? If so, how is it now being used to inform the next steps?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you for that answer. I take it they were not high risk pre Grenfell, because that question has been asked twice now, and you've not—
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you for that answer. Can I just ask the same question again: pre Grenfell, were all buildings above three storeys considered to be high risk, or have they only come onto the high-risk register since Grenfell?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
I don't want to debate that with you, but if work ceased to be available in the private sector, many of those people could work in the public sector. But we're not going to get very far with that. You talk about high-risk buildings. Were buildings above three…
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Can I go on from that? I would prefer it to be all done by local government building control, but I know that that is not the view of the Welsh Government civil service or the Welsh Government. But the question I've got is: how do you stop one organisation…
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
The mixed market, referred to in response to the Auditor General for Wales's recommendations, and could further details be provided to the committee?
1 February 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Building Safety in Wales
Diolch, Cadeirydd. This, really, follows on from where you've just stopped. What were the conclusions of the Welsh Government's previous review of the mixed market and could further details be provided to the committee?
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates relief
Can I say that online is the real danger to retail, and that’s got to be addressed? The other thing is: how about a rent freeze? As you know as well as I do, the pub companies' continued increase rents make pubs unviable. That’s why a lot of those pubs are…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates relief
Will you give way?
30 January 2024 , Plenary
The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
Will you take an intervention? Where are you going to get those 150 extra consultants? My understanding is that there are very few unemployed doctors in Wales—actually, none—so, where are you going to get them from?
30 January 2024 , Plenary
The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
Can I just start off by saying that it is better to get this Bill right than to complete it ready for the next Senedd election? On the number of Members, in the 1990s, the initial proposal was 80 Members, but that was overturned for the 60 Members we have…
29 January 2024 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Well, I'm on public record in both the South Wales Evening Post and Nation.Cymru opposing the Welsh Government spending money on a tourist attraction. My view on tourist attractions is: good idea, but the people building them ought to be able to fund them…
29 January 2024 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Well, Pembrokeshire County Council have made arrangements to provide an alternative bus service under contract linking Tenby to Pendine via Saundersfoot, and this is numbered 351. The service operates on weekdays over the winter months and, during the summer…
29 January 2024 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Just to declare an interest: my daughter crosses it every day because she lives in Bangor and she teaches in Amlwch, so I have a personal interest in it, but I agree with everything Peredur just said.
29 January 2024 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Cadeirydd. First of all, I chair the cross-party group on rare diseases. Rare diseases are individually rare, but, collectively, they affect about 7 per cent to 8 per cent of the Welsh population, and I can understand the concerns that people with…
29 January 2024 , Petitions Committee
New petitions
Thank you.
29 January 2024 , Petitions Committee
New petitions
I've actually attended an RSE lesson for 10-year-olds and I'm not quite sure what people are finding difficult about it. It compared the way Harry Potter was treated by his uncle and aunt and his cousin with the way that Charlie of Charlie and the Chocolate…
29 January 2024 , Petitions Committee
New petitions
Can I thank the petitioners for bringing this forward? I very rarely eat in the Senedd. I was going to say that I never eat in the Senedd, but I'm sure that, some time in the last 12 months, I've actually done so, but it's a very rare occurrence. And if they…
