, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
But, if you're talking about capital, I've no idea how much you need to spend as an organisation, but people have capital programmes that last for decades in order to modernise their estate.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
And that's the only one.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
I appreciate the way you use words. You're in agreement with the vast majority. If you're in agreement with the vast majority, you must not be in agreement with some. Using the term 'vast majority' excludes some. Which are the ones that you're not in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
You have to decide to do one first and another one second. You call it a 'hierarchy'; I would call it a 'prioritisation'. I think that's a matter of semantics rather than anything else, but I think the word 'prioritisation' gives a greater urgency to what…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
What's the difference between a hierarchy and a prioritisation?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
And, unfortunately, the tailored review described the recommendations in the final report as a programme of work; what it didn't do is put them in priority order. Have you put them in priority order?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Please ask them to check that. Can I move on to the tailored review? You've talked a lot about the tailored review; in fact, I'm coming in at a stage where you've probably answered quite a lot of what I'm about to ask. The first question is: the tailored…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Well, perhaps our legal people can let me know, and let the committee know, because that is what is publicly printed, which is that claims are capped unless they're one of those two. Now, if there are others, I think that the world would like to know that…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
Well, the two that are not capped—and you can tell me if I've got this wrong—are race discrimination and sex discrimination. Are there others you say that are not capped?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Accounts scrutiny: Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales
I've further questions about the tailored review, but just one question, and this is when I discovered what I thought I knew was wrong. I thought I understood that the employment tribunal payments were capped, and that, in 2022, the highest payment was…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
One question, Mark. They say they generate profit into the Exchequer. Can we ask them how much?
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
And you're convinced that's sufficient. But, of course, if it was 100 per cent out, it would still be de minimis, wouldn't it?
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Moving on, I'll start off with a comment. I actually agree with the transfer of the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales to the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales; I think that's a move in the right direction. I have another view on it…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much. I'm just very pleased to see it in there. As one of the few council estate Members here, with another one in the room as well, we are very much a small minority, and I'd like it to stop being like that. Moving on to the impact of…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
A very simple way of doing it, both here and in local government, is to collect the council tax band of the housing lived in by Members here and members of each local authority. That would give you a very rough guide, but council tax banding is probably the…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Which is what I'm going to talk about now. My view, and it's probably not a majority one, is that the greatest underrepresented group, both in the Senedd and in local government, is working-class people, people from social housing. If the Senedd was…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
On the voter information platform, are you confident that £750,000 to £1 million is now, following the rise in inflation, enough?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Perhaps you could write to us.
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
But, at that stage, then, would councils be allowed to set supplementary council tax?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
But it wouldn't need primary legislation to do it. Because there's primary legislation, which has that quid pro quo, wasn't there?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Yes, very much on that. There was a time, when I was involved, that the RSG couldn't be altered in-year without primary legislation, because that was the quid pro quo for local authorities not being able to give a supplementary council tax, which, again, as…
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Yes.
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Okay. We've got those numbers. They differ from something we've had previously, but the current numbers are the most important, so thank you.
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Do you recognise the £177 million? You don't recognise the £177 million net funding allocation.
