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Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
Saturday.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
I thank the Minister for that. I think we must always remember that domestic animals are sentient beings. The Welsh Government has an excellent record on legislating for the welfare of domestic animals. For example, it is now illegal for a commercial seller…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
2. How does the Welsh Government intend to legislate to improve the welfare of domestic animals? OQ59998
, Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill
I very much welcome the statement by the Counsel General. I welcome that the Bill requires the Welsh Ministers, through regulation, to establish and operate an online platform, with candidate and voter information regarding Senedd and ordinary principal…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Fine.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Yes, but—. Sorry, I thought it was very straightforward, what I asked for. Somebody's got a patent, let's say, to print paper here more efficiently. The company has now gone out of existence. The patent hasn't disappeared—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
But if one of those patents does well in the future, and what have you got, 60 of them, or a large number of intellectual property—? If one of them does well, do you get a return on it or does somebody else get a return on it, who is the patent or…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
The first one is: has the investment had any positive effect on the life sciences sector in Wales? Secondly, what has happened to the intellectual property and patents?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
I've got one question in two parts, and nothing else at all.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Okay. Fine.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Thank you. And the first question, how many spun out of universities?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Mine is a very simple question: how many of these businesses spun out of university research? And the second question is: is there any opportunity for a new company to grow out of any of them, following on the work they've already done?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
The other thing is that you talk about inward investment. Do you mean inward investment as in overseas investment inwardly, or do you mean local investment, or do you mean investment via the stock exchange and the alternative market?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
But people do tend to be ambitious, they do tend to look on the bright side of life, as it were. So, I'm not criticising you for that, but I think, perhaps, a more realistic appraisal in future would be helpful.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Okay. Thank you for that. I think you just said there were some problems about the robustness of some of the initial targets and projections.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Okay. I'd love to discuss that in greater detail, but I'm sure the Chair won't let me. On the performance framework, I can read you a load of numbers out, and you can tell me whether they're right or wrong, but what's your understanding of how many jobs we…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Of course, if it had, you'd be talking about a multimillion-pound company.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this bit first, and then I'll come on to some other questions. My understanding with life sciences is that they're either very successful or they fail. There's very little just ticking over in the life science market, and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
You've answered nearly everything I was going to ask, but if I could just carry on—so that financial transactions capital that has been lost is not a loss that actually has any material effect on Welsh Government's balance sheet, or on the amount that has to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Life Sciences Investment Fund
When you answer that, I've got a supplementary question.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
One of the great things about making a speech here is that people don't pay any attention to what you've said. I said, 'Give full discretion to the councils' in the first few words I said. But can I just say this? This is serious. There are number of people…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
Yes.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
The first thing I'd like to say is that the Conservatives think this is so important, as my friend Alun Davies just said, it's a 30-minute debate. I assume you're going to give it slightly longer than that, and I hope you do, but it is ridiculous that you…
