, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
You don't all have to answer.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence Session with Cardiff Airport
Thank you very much, and obviously we're in the early stage of this evidence session, but I think the airport—and I know that many across the UK and beyond are really, really struggling around this—has seen a decrease of 66 per cent in turnover and 67 per…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 2023 Eurovision Song Contest
I'm very pleased to be able to briefly participate in this debate. I wasn’t down to speak. I would like to actually agree with the opening sentiments of the Members opposite, who started this discussion and this motion today. I absolutely applaud the fact…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you, Minister. The Welsh Government have been correct to identify the continued delays to the introduction of European Union import checks, which are a risk to our collective biosecurity. The risk is intensified with the lack of access to European Union…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
8. What representations has the Welsh Government made to the UK Government about the impact on Welsh farming of the delayed introduction of European Union import checks? OQ58277
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Briefly, can you point out what it is both Carolyn and I don't understand?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Thank you, that's very kind of you. Obviously, you're entitled to say what you wish. Could you point out—[Interruption.]
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Thank you. I think the very simple response to that is, firstly, you sit around the table together. The second response to that is that the Government has a duty of care to its people on safety and on transport, and they need to get their act together. That…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Indeed.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
I rise to support amendment 1, tabled by Lesley Griffiths, Member of the Senedd. Yesterday, I was proud to stand with the rail workers from the RMT trade union on the picket line at Cardiff Central station, alongside my colleague. They are taking a stand for…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
The point that I've not had a response to, in regard to the lack of infrastructural funding on the rail network across Wales prior to Transport for Wales, what is your response to the appalling disregard and disinvestment in Wales? In the past.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Thank you. That's very generous of you in your opening remarks. Thank you for that. Would you acknowledge that, prior to Transport for Wales, when the rail network was completely under UK control in terms of its spend, Wales received a mere 0.2 per cent of…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Empowering communities
—and comments, but my question, really, is: surely, empowering communities is about having the funding within those communities so that we have libraries and leisure centres and vibrant schools, and would you say that the austerity agenda, deliberate cuts to…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Empowering communities
Thank you so much. Nobody would disagree with any of those sentiments—
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Empowering communities
Would you possibly take an intervention?
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
That's useful. Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thank you, and I'll be brief on my final questions. In your written evidence, you suggest you will support local government through the corporate joint committee infrastructures. Can you provide, briefly, further information on your intended involvement via…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
And finally on this point, because I think it's very important in terms of EU structural funding Objective 1 in terms of deprivation, does the shared prosperity fund—and the clue is in its title, I think—actually address those deep-rooted, endemic poverty…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
To precis, what you're saying is that a genuine co-constructive approach isn't done in a two-week model. I would hope that that's fair. And very briefly, then—and I'll tie this into your comments around the Wales index of multiple deprivation being used as a…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
But to interrupt you, for clarity, that was two weeks before.
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thank you. You suggest that—you've sort of touched upon this, so you may not wish to delve too deeply—the Welsh Government was not involved in meaningful discussions around the shared prosperity fund at the start of the session and, as has been mentioned…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Thank you. Before I go into my line of questioning around the shared prosperity fund funding gap, is this not stronger than you are advocating in terms of the fact that, yes, we need to be diplomatic with the UK Government, and, yes, we need strong working…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Okay.
