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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
I just have one final question, gentlemen. I appreciate Cardiff Airport, I do. I know the general consensus is that I don't have time for the airport; I actually have a lot of personal love as well as professional love for it, and I do want it to succeed, and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Now, the Welsh Government says, for transparency, it will report regularly on the flow of funding to the airport and ensure close monitoring of the economic outcomes of investment. Can you expand on this? I appreciate what you’ve just said, but how, exactly…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay. And, again, what conditions is the Welsh Government planning to impose for the £206 million it plans to provide over 10 years, and what will determine how the airport draws down its funding now?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Right. Once again to the Welsh Government: in the announcement, the Welsh Government says it will not be providing a breakdown of the funding allocation, and you say in your recent update that there’s a restriction on the additional commercial information…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Right, okay. So, to the Welsh Government now: how has the Welsh Government determined the value of the investment, and the 10 years over which it will indeed be provided now?
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
No, no, not at all. Looking at private entities to potentially look into investing in Cardiff Airport, as opposed to relying on the taxpayer, which we're currently doing now.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Right. The next sub-question is that Bristol Airport is investing £400 million to improve facilities within the airport itself over five years, and this is going to cost not a single dime, or not a single penny, to the taxpayer. Did you as an entity—Holdco…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Still no date in place. I’ve asked both of you, and neither of you have given an actual specific time or date frame when this was actually discussed, because—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay. So, Mr Slade, you're still not answering the question: when was it discussed? I'm looking at months, dates, times, years.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
So, my question, then, going back to it: when was this plan initiated?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Great, appreciated. So, I appreciate what Spencer mentioned earlier, and I acknowledge the bi-weekly meetings that take place between the Welsh Government, Holdco and also the airport. So, I just wanted to know, when exactly was the £206 million that's been…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you so much, Chair. Good morning, gentlemen. I do have an array of questions that I want to go through with you, but there are a few bits and pieces where I may just want to do some housekeeping for myself, following previous questions that have been…
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Papers to note
Yes, Chair, can we please pick it up on 6 November?
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Papers to note
I'm content to note it, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Content to note, Chair.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
I am conscious that we have had a lot of speakers and I have limited time, but I did want to say a few words, particularly on this really important subject. We all know that politics is about choices. We are all here in a very privileged position, as elected…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Cabinet Secretary, over the summer, Caerphilly County Borough Council a raft of potential money-saving measures, including withdrawing funding for Blackwood Miners' Institute and Llancaiach Fawr. This move has sparked complete uproar and protest, as well as a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Okay, thank you so much, Cabinet Secretary. In the midst of summer recess, it was revealed the Welsh Government will be giving another £206 million to Cardiff Airport. This extra cash from the public purse comes on top of the hundreds of millions of pounds of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Thank you so much, Cabinet Secretary. It's all fine; all fair in love and politics, as they say. So, it's hardly surprising, unfortunately, the way things—as you've probably just heard—are experienced that there is genuinely a feeling that this Welsh Labour…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Thank you so much, Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary, welcome back after the summer. Yesterday, I am sure that you are well aware, marked one year since the Welsh Government introduced its extremely controversial 20 mph speed limit scheme. Over the past…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Business Secretary, I'd like to request a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales regarding the new penalty fare zone expansion by Transport for Wales. I've recently been contacted by a constituent—and there are many like this…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Andrew R.T. Davies.
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Yes, content.
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Papers to note
I'm happy to address it later, Chair.
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Papers to note
Fine. Okay, that's fine. Thanks. Thank you, Chair. I'm content.
