14 December 2021 , Plenary
& 10. The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Wales) Rules 2021, and The Local Elections (Communities) (Wales) Rules 2021
Elections are essential to our democracy, and anything that impacts them should be taken seriously. I'm pleased to bring these regulations before you and to hear the views of colleagues in the Chamber today on the Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Wales)…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Thank you very much for raising that series of questions, and for your generally warm acceptance of the need for the Bill, but obviously you're looking forward to the scrutiny process ahead. I'm sure that we will continue to return to the question as to…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
I thank Peter Fox for those questions. I am really pleased that the briefing that officials provided has been useful. I'm very much looking forward to the detailed scrutiny process, which will commence on 22 December, as an early Christmas present for us all…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Diolch. Yesterday, I laid the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill, together with the explanatory memorandum, before the Senedd. Tax devolution is important; it provides a significant lever through which we are better able to deliver strategic…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
I'm grateful to Ken Skates for raising these issues and giving me this opportunity to place on record my thanks and the Welsh Government's thanks to all 22 of our local authorities, who have done absolutely incredible work supporting communities through the…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
Thank you very much for raising those issues. You began by talking about council tax arrears, which of course is a concern for us when we find individuals and families in that situation. Council tax collection rates are actually very high, but the overall…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
I'm really grateful to Mike Hedges for that series of questions and I know that this is an agenda that he is also very passionate about. At the start of his contribution, he gave us some really stark examples, really, as to why this work is so necessary in…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
Thank you very much for those questions and for the way in which we've already started working collaboratively and jointly on what is a really important shared endeavour. All of those points that you made at the very start of your contribution, in terms of…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
Thank you very much to Sam Rowlands for his questions this afternoon and the way in which he's approached what is a really, really significant undertaking over the course of the next Senedd term. And he does recognise the importance of consultation. And today…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
Diolch. Our programme for government makes a clear commitment to reform council tax to make it fairer. The co-operation agreement that we've entered into with Plaid Cymru reaffirms that aim, and today I want to set out the first initial steps along that…
30 November 2021 , Plenary
, 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16. & 17. The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Public Authorities subject to the Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems Duty) Regulations 2021; The Equality Act 2010 (Authorities subject to a duty regarding Socio-economic Inequalities) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Welsh Language Standards (No. 1) Regulations 2015 (Amendment) Regulations 2021; The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Meaning of Public Body) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (Meaning of Public Body) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Corporate Joint Committees (Amendment of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015) Regulations 2021; The Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 (Amendment to the List of Welsh Authorities) Regulations 2021; The Child Poverty Strategy (Corporate Joint Committees) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Thank you very much for colleagues' contributions to the debate today. Just to reiterate, really, what Llyr Gruffydd was saying there in terms of we are very much debating about how we make CJCs work today, and we're debating about putting in place the…
30 November 2021 , Plenary
, 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16. & 17. The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Public Authorities subject to the Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems Duty) Regulations 2021; The Equality Act 2010 (Authorities subject to a duty regarding Socio-economic Inequalities) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Welsh Language Standards (No. 1) Regulations 2015 (Amendment) Regulations 2021; The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Meaning of Public Body) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (Meaning of Public Body) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Corporate Joint Committees (Amendment of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015) Regulations 2021; The Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 (Amendment to the List of Welsh Authorities) Regulations 2021; The Child Poverty Strategy (Corporate Joint Committees) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motions. In March this year, the Senedd approved the regulations establishing four new corporate joint committees, or CJCs, in Wales. The Senedd also approved a number of additional regulations that ensured CJCs would be subject to…
23 November 2021 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualifications (Dissolved Companies) Bill
So, I would just conclude, Llywydd, by committing to continue to update Members on our ongoing work looking at the reforming of the non-domestic rates system here in Wales. Diolch.
23 November 2021 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualifications (Dissolved Companies) Bill
Yes, I will. —as part of the 2023 revaluation.
23 November 2021 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualifications (Dissolved Companies) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I would just like to begin by correcting the Chair and the member of the committee. I did respond to the committee's correspondence, dated 16 November, with a letter on 20 November. We did have confirmation of receipt from the committee as…
23 November 2021 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualifications (Dissolved Companies) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motion. I am very grateful to both the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee and the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee for considering and reporting on the memorandum. Neither committee identified an impediment…
9 November 2021 , Plenary
The Representation of the People (Amendment) (Wales) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
Thank you. I would just like to—I think I'm—. I'm not on mute—apologies. I'd just like to thank again the committee for their work in this area, and stress how important these regulations are, because there are a small number of local by-elections taking…
9 November 2021 , Plenary
The Representation of the People (Amendment) (Wales) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
The Representation of the People (Amendment) (Wales) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 temporarily extend these provisions to 28 March 2022. After this date, no local by-elections of any kind may be held before the ordinary local elections in May. We…
9 November 2021 , Plenary
The Representation of the People (Amendment) (Wales) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
Diolch, Llywydd. Elections are essential to our democracy. Anything that impacts them should be taken seriously, so I am pleased to bring these regulations before you and to hear the views of colleagues in the Chamber today on the Representation of the People…
21 October 2021 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Pleasure. Thank you. Thanks.
21 October 2021 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
We feel that it’s vital that the subsidy advice unit is representative of the whole of the UK, so it is the Welsh Government’s view that the Bill should clearly carve out a role for devolved Governments in appointments. The fact that such a requirement would…
21 October 2021 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Yes, I would agree with that also. When you look at the fact that it doesn’t give us the opportunity now to target investment, in that sense it’s permissive, in the kind of response I gave to Vikki Howells about pulling investment away from the areas that…
21 October 2021 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
Would be more—?
21 October 2021 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
I would agree with the conclusion, essentially, that Schedule 3 to the Bill poses several potentially quite important constitutional questions, particularly in relation to the apparent departure from the general position that the judicial review of devolved…
21 October 2021 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Minister for Finance and Local Government - Subsidy Control Bill
We’d want the development of the detail of support for disadvantaged areas to be done on a quadrilateral basis by all four Governments in the UK. All four Governments, I think, can offer some unique insights into how the regime could work in practice. So…
