, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Research and Development: Funding bodies
Okay, thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Research and Development: Funding bodies
Okay. What do we have to do to do as well as the south-east of England?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Research and Development: Funding bodies
The Welsh Government has set targets for 3 per cent of Innovate UK's budget to be invested in Wales by 2026, and said that it'll set a target for research council funding. What conversations have been had with the Welsh Government about these targets? What…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Research and Development: Funding bodies
Diolch, Gadeirydd. This question is for UKRI. And can I just start off by saying that I've spoken fairly regularly about the importance of innovation and research in developing our economy? But what progress has been made towards the target in the UK…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales
I'll just say that I remain unsatisfied. Back to you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales
I can understand you'd need the advice, but how don't you know that, because that was the big decision you made?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales
I've looked in great detail at the amounts of money being paid out by tribunals. You seem to be way above the amount that I've managed to find, except where it has been on sexual or racial discrimination. Can you direct me to where I can find sums of money…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales
Finally from me, or almost finally from me: the auditor general notes the ministerial advice did not include the total value of the settlement, nor did it set out the employment costs or explain the former director general's contractual notice period was 12…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales
Okay. The auditor general said the ministerial advice about the settlement agreement noted the amounts for injury to feelings and for loss of employment were reasonable. How was that calculated?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales
Diolch, Cadeirydd. The auditor general said the ministerial advice noted that the settlement 'raised novel and contentious issues'— and those of us who used to watch Yes, Minister know exactly what those mean—and it would have been prudent for the Welsh…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
I very much welcome the statement. I welcome that the Welsh Government will restrict the oversight of new high-risk buildings to local authority building control, and that it will introduce a new class system for registered building inspectors. This will make…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Economic Mission: Priorities for a Stronger Economy
I agree with the Minister: there is no credible evidence or recent experience that supports the case for a switch to reckless deregulation, low expectations on working conditions, including fire and rehire, poor environmental standards or unfunded tax cuts…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I thank the First Minister for that response. In times when savings need to be made in the public sector, fixed costs are often overlooked. Buying Microsoft applications and Microsoft Windows is the option of choice, an expensive option of choice. I'm sure…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
8. What is the Welsh Government’s policy on the use of open-source software by public bodies? OQ60316
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill
I very much welcome the statement. Non-domestic rates are disliked by the rich because they're difficult to reduce, as opposed to corporation tax, which is very easy to reduce. For example, Amazon paid £6.3 million in corporation tax in the UK last year…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I want to raise a deeply concerning matter relating to an alarming increase in the number of hate crime and Islamaphobic e-mails that have inundated Swansea central mosque's inbox recently. I'm asking for a Government statement on how they are working with…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
One comment as a regular visitor to the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, whose name changed from the industrial and maritime museum, which I preferred as a name. All of these things might have been happening, but I haven't noticed any difference in my…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Okay, fine. I welcome that. Your KPIs, I believe—as in, I've been told—have changed for 2023-24 from the ones in 2022-23. Is what I've been told correct, and are you going to have any difficulty meeting the ones for 2023-24?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
So, just to come back on what you said, that you deliver more than anybody else outside the classroom, would you say that you deliver more than BBC Bitesize?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Moving on to performance, which is probably the most important thing that you're being looked at on—how you are performing—how would you assess the organisation's performance against its targets for 2021-22?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Sorry. Thank you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Because you've got a very valuable land value of the property you've got at the moment. Moving to a less valuable parcel of land, you may well be able to build or take over something that would be both cheaper to run and would not cost the £30 million, which…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Are you thinking of moving, then?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Where are you going to get it from?
