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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
No, I was just going to—
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
And—
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I’ll start on this one. Obviously, local authorities have a really important part to play in supporting communities in respect of asset transfer. Our commercial procurement department within Welsh Government has commissioned research and advice from Cwmpas…
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
And, in terms of thriving Welsh language communities, I think it's absolutely critical as well, bearing in mind the importance that local pubs, local shops and so on can play in some Welsh language and rural communities in particular, and, obviously…
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
So, I would say it's critical and it really lends itself, I think, to this particular area of work. Even though the future generations Act is obviously the lens through which we look at all of our policy development, but thinking about working for the long…
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
We can certainly look to share some more information about that. This particular piece of work is being led by Jane Hutt's department, but, by its very nature, it's cross-Government, so we'll look to see what more we can share on that.
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Shall I add as well, Chair, that we've undertaken a mapping exercise across Government, looking at policies and programmes where community policy is at the heart? We've found already over a hundred, and Julie's given us a few examples there. It's absolutely…
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Great. Thank you. In your opening remarks, you referenced the written statement that was published jointly between myself, Julie James and Jane Hutt recently, and I think that that really speaks to the cross-Government nature of this work and the fact that we…
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Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Shall I start, Chair?
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Finance Committee Debate: The Welsh Government's spending priorities for 2023-24
Our fiscal position is very difficult. We face several uncertainties as a result of the ongoing events in Whitehall. We are yet to understand when the next UK Government fiscal event will be, and the UK Government hasn't, at this point, indicated that there…
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Finance Committee Debate: The Welsh Government's spending priorities for 2023-24
Diolch. I'd just like to say thank you to everybody for their contributions this afternoon, but particularly so to the Finance Committee for bringing forward the debate today. I do think that this has been an absolutely excellent innovation in recent years…
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2022-23
Thank you. As a number of colleagues have observed this afternoon, this supplementary budget really does take us back to what we used to know supplementary budgets as being before the pandemic, in the sense that there are very small movements, small…
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2022-23
Thank you, Llywydd. The first supplementary budget of 2022-23 is the first opportunity to amend budgetary plans for the current financial year, which were published and approved by the Senedd in March. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Finance…
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
I've clearly changed my mind, when you look at the ways in which the Bill has been dramatically amended. And the idea behind the Bill has been amended from a very wide-ranging power when we first consulted to something that is very narrow and targeted now…
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
I was coming on to that.
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
I absolutely give that commitment to collaborate with the experts in the field. If colleagues don't want to listen to me today, let's listen to the experts in the field, because when my colleague Rhianon Passmore was asking the Chartered Institute of Taxation…
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Yes.
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Thank you very much, and thank you to colleagues for their contributions this afternoon. I'm glad it's been recognised that the Bill is the result of a considerable body of work by many people, and I would like to put my thanks on record to all of them, and…
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. Today, I'm pleased to present the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill to the Senedd for approval. I'd like to begin by putting on record my thanks to all the officials who've worked so diligently over many years on this Bill. As we…
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The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Only to say thank you very much to the Welsh Conservatives for their support today. I'm grateful to Members for their interest in this. As this is the final substantive tranche of legislation to establish the legal framework for CJCs, I just want to recognise…
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The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motion. The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022, along with a handful of minor ancillary statutory instruments that will be laid shortly, represent the final substantive tranche of legislation to…
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Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: A Fairer Council Tax
I'm grateful for that contribution, and just want to reassure Carolyn Thomas that we are very much continuing to work on the idea of a local land value tax. The main underlying objective for local tax is to raise that stable revenue for local services in the…
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Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: A Fairer Council Tax
I'm very grateful to Mike Hedges for those contributions and for his ongoing engagement on the issue of council tax, and I share his concern about the importance of more regular revaluations. I think that it has been far too long since the last revaluation…
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Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: A Fairer Council Tax
I'm very grateful to Llyr Gruffydd for his comments today, and just through Llyr I'd like to thank Cefin Campbell for the excellent work, which we've done, I think, together, on this particular area of our co-operation agreement, and for his really…
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Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: A Fairer Council Tax
I'm very grateful to Sam Rowlands for his contribution this afternoon, and his keenness to work collaboratively on what is such an important agenda in terms of making council tax fairer. I suppose the reason why we've referred to our consultation as making…
