, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Would the new system or this Bill enable you to be innovative with regard to other businesses? For example, in the budget debate yesterday, we were talking about the potential for looking at bigger, multinational companies and the difference between those and…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much. I'll bring Rhianon in at that point, please.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
And they're quite receptive to this Bill and supportive of it.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you for that. Finally from me, much of the cost identified in the RIA is associated with activities undertaken by other bodies, like the Valuation Office Agency, the Valuation Tribunal for Wales and local authorities. Are you satisfied with the…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
But looking at the explanatory memorandum and the RIA, it contains a 10-year costing. Has any of that future work been thought about when looking at future costs? Have some assumptions been made about down the line? You're talking about taxes that might…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
You've talked about reform of local taxes at various points through this and the last Senedd. This has included exploration of different systems, such as land value tax. To what extent does this Bill represent the extent of the Welsh Government's ambition in…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, this Bill is designed, really, to give you the flexibility to be able to adapt taxes as it goes along, and to be able to have more flexibility in varying different aspects for the Welsh taxpayer, if you like, and probably diverge more from what's…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
As we see with a lot of framework Bills, it creates that financial uncertainty, especially for this committee to understand the overall cost of Bills. So, it's always going to be a little bit of a concern for this committee that we don't know exactly what's…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much. The total net costs associated with the Bill are around £60 million, but much of the Bill has not been costed as the activity will be taken forward via secondary legislation. Are you able to provide further information on the potential…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
What are the highlights, then? Revaluation is one of the highlights on council tax and on non-domestic rates. Are there other things within there that are key objectives of this?
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Fantastic. Thank you very much. And thanks for making time to come to committee this morning. We've got you for an hour or so, hopefully, to go through this Bill. I'd like to start by exploring the background of the Bill, what part it plays in Welsh…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
We'll go on to item 4, which is the financial implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill. We've got an evidence session this morning with the Minister and her officials. Would you introduce yourself and your officials, please? Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Welcome back to this meeting of the Finance Committee. We're now going on to item 4.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much for your time this morning. We'll obviously have a transcript ready for you, to check for accuracy. We'll go into a short break now, and reconvene at 11.15 a.m. Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much for your time.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. Any other questions from Members? No.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you. Diolch, Rhianon. Can we just unmute Rhianon, please? Thank you. Oh, hang on. There we are—go for it.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Just on that point—and maybe I should have declared it at the beginning, as a governor of a school—are there any implications on resourcing, especially around the data and the information that comes to governing bodies? Is there any financial implication…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you, Mike. I'll bring Rhianon Passmore in. Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay, thank you.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Just on that point, you're saying that having this as a statutory, mandatory element within schools is difficult for the reasons that you've given, and you mentioned earlier that there are other ways of doing this, and that that's occurring, and in your…
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Mike.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes, carry on.
, Finance Committee
Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Mike wanted to come in on that.
