, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Rejoining the single market
Thank you. Whilst I totally understand, comprehend and recognise the context that you've set out, would you explain how you would approach the fact that, like it or lump it, the referendum has been held?
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Rejoining the single market
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Curriculum for Wales Roll-out
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer. Minister, I very much welcome this statement today, the enthusiasm across the Chamber for the new curriculum, the innovation behind the areas of learning, and the honest recognition that change means challenge within our…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Okay. I hope we get this date soon. Thank you very much, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Just to follow up in that regard, in regard to the call for aviation sectoral support in this regard and the importance of this connectivity report, when is it going to be published? You probably can't answer this in terms of the inter-governmental meetings…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I think it's something that we should discuss, because I've got a personal opinion, but it might not be the committee's.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
It would be an idea if we could have regular updates with regard to where this restructuring programme is sitting, because obviously it's very much dependent, even under this new proposed structure, on the information coming through, in a sense, as the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you. So, to clarify, then, the scope was purely on Holdco in terms of the review, but, within that, it covered the relationship with the airport.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you very much. I'm going to move on, then, to areas of development within governance itself. We've mentioned the Welsh Government's shareholding capacity within Holdco board and the relationship with the airport. What was the scope of the Welsh…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you very much, Chair. Just on the tail end of that, as I'm asking the next round of questions—and it picks up on Natasha and Mike's points, actually—bearing in mind the actual, real significance of securing a five-star airline like Qatar to Wales, and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Chair, can you clarify for anyone who may be watching what you mean and what is meant by it?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Okay.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Briefly, in regard to the airport's previous comments in the previous evidence session, which you were witnesses at, they said there was no immediate plan to accelerate and draw down their loan in that regard, and that they were on track. So, from those…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Just as a very quick follow-up to that, pre COVID we were having these discussions in terms of how difficult it was for airlines. We were talking about Brexit, and now, obviously, with other world events—Ukraine and climate change and all of these external…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Sorry, I didn't catch the last creativity—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Chair, can I just make a follow-up point? I think, in terms of what you've just said, that's absolutely the case, and many do, but in terms of the scrutiny from this place of yourselves, it would be very preferential if that were to be furnished to us as we…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay, thank you very much. My questions are done, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Obviously, the exemption is there for these purposes, but in terms of this committee seeking as much transparency as is possible in a commercial environment, obviously the statement of cash flows is of more interest and much more easy for us to scrutinise…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you for that. Turning to why the airport—obviously, we do understand why—has taken advantage of an exemption and not included a statement of cash flows in its accounts—you've touched upon this—for 2019-20 and the following year, 2020-21, having included…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you. The value of some of the airport's tangible assets, as has been stated, almost halved in terms of deprecation, which I think the Chair has just highlighted, at 31 March 2021, compared to the year earlier, through impairment and increased…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Okay, thank you. Obviously, Chair, we'll be interested in following that up. You may wish to do the same here, but I'm not going to put words in your mouth. How much of the £2.5 million Government grant included as income in the 2020-21 accounts relates to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
No, you're here.
