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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS at 75
Thank you, Minister. True perfection is imperfect. Our beloved national health service is perfection, both in its concept and in its simplicity, and it needs the investment that it deserves. Indeed, not so long ago, my own grandmother died in childbirth…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Rural communities
I just wanted to ask you what the level of capital investment was to Wales.
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Topical Questions
Oh, what can I say? The Welsh Senedd funding, Deputy Minister—the financial costs of a reporter to cover the proceedings of this Senedd—is to be very much welcomed. How often does this Chamber, cross-party, and in committee, decry the paucity of coverage of…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you, Minister. The Development Bank of Wales, which is wholly owned, I believe, by the Welsh Government, is a powerful lever for facilitating investment in Welsh businesses and across the Welsh economy. In its last financial year to the end of March…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
8. What action is the Welsh Government taking to support investment activity in Welsh businesses? OQ59761
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
That's great. Thank you. I have no further questions.
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
That makes sense. Thank you. Finally, my last question, really, is again around the incurring of costs. You say in the RIA that communities are, obviously, likely to incur costs, but you don't provide those estimates—I'm positive I know what you're going to…
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I understand that, but, in a nutshell, why model around the DNS system? I'm still not quite grasping it.
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you, Minister. In regard, then, moving on, to DNS—the developments of national significance to Wales—the analysis for DNS used the aspects of cost to estimate around consenting regimes. So, in the example that we've been given, the Welsh…
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I hear that. In regard then to the largest costs being associated with developers, the Arup report states that, in some areas, the estimates used a very small level of responses from developers in the calculation of cost. So, in a similar vein, how confident…
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay, thank you. The regulatory impact assessment outlines a variety of differing regimes currently in use. No costs are estimated for planning permission under section 57(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, so what is the expectation around the…
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. I'm going to follow that up in regard to the mechanism in terms of the complexity across the three levels in terms of how these applications are categorised and the fact that these costs are not included, because, as you say, they're not known. Did you…
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Financial implications of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much, Chair, and welcome, everyone—welcome, Minister. How confident, Minister, are you in regard to the baseline costs being accurate? And in particular, are you satisfied that the number of applications you have used to estimate those annual…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 5, 6 and 8, and from the 6 July meeting
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Thank you.
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
—could we be sent the report that Sir Paul's spoken of in terms of inter-parliamentary co-operation, because I think it will feed into that discussion?
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Chair, before we break—
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Just a very brief point, just to pick up on that as a really important point. But it is also about having a creative media that is able to make it accessible to people, because all of these issues have a direct impact, as everybody knows around this table, in…
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Interesting. Okay. I mean, there is a power imbalance; that’s my point. It’s not just about leadership.
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Yes, absolutely. And, obviously, we're here to hear you and to listen to you as witnesses, but I just wanted to push back in regards, as an example, around the aggregate levy and also the UK Government's position on air passenger duty. I hear what you're…
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
I'm sure that you are all very cognisant that we would like these things to be occurring, but, obviously, in terms of when these things are going to occur, and the UK Government's line on this, it's all very much, 'Let's look into the future.' So, again…
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Yes, totally. And in terms of the Crown Estate issue, that is absolutely live in that regard as well. So, in regard to and moving on to air passenger duty should be devolved for direct long-haul flights, the UK Government has stated that different rates…
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Thank you. So, there seems to be a consensus around that, and I would agree with the Chair's comments also. So, in regard to what has been deemed available to us and the aggregates levy being still under review in the future to be able to be devolved, what do…
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
I'm sure, if the Welsh Government were here today, they would turn around and say that their assessment is that there would have been a negative impact in regard to income tax and in terms of all the connotations around that, but I'm not here to say that. I…
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Briefly, I think.
