, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
So, to clarify that point, we're talking in the region of £1 billion with the margin either end. That's what we wanted to find out, yes?
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 3
Very briefly, Chair, if I may, on that point. We were promised every penny and every pound, and this is not a political point, Chair, and it's partially why I asked the question about the inter-governmental review and that systemic framework. How are the…
, Finance Committee
Papers to note
Okay. That was very useful. Thank you, Chair.
, Finance Committee
Papers to note
Just a little point really for clarification. I know we can write to the Minister, but in regard to the Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee meeting, is that systemic in terms of its framework of you meeting? Will you be reporting back to us as a…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Okay, thank you. That's clear, and I would also comment that I think, in terms of Government's mandate of setting that strategic objective, it is very much able to do that. And in terms of wider strategy, it would only be Government that would do that. It…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Sorry. 'Equity', did you say?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
I wish we had more time, and I would pursue that line of questioning, but I am going to be disciplined and move to my final questions and not do that. You've talked briefly to the scattergun approach of UK levelling-up funds and the challenges that poses to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Not in the UK, sorry. External to the UK.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you. Where would you point to—I can think of potentially one or two—as examples of how the state has managed to strategically steer town-centre regeneration and renewal organically? What would come to your mind in that regard?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you. What do you see, further to the comments that you've made about civil society and co-ordination between registered social landlords and community groups—what do you see as the key priorities now for investment in terms of social infrastructure…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you. I take it that you would then, therefore, state that that is non-strategic in terms of where we need to be. Over the recent years, Welsh Government's funding for town-centre regeneration has been, do you feel, streamlined and focused on the right…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
And I think, in terms of your comments—and I will quickly come to my questions, Chair—it is about the balance of state intervention in regard to marketisation and the whole mix, holistically, within that, and that is complex and complicated. So, I'm going to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you. That's been really interesting, so thank you for the contribution to date. I was quite amused by your comments about the Daily Mail and Express; I'm not sure that they would agree with your demolition of retail parks, but I think it's a very…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Evidence session
Thank you, Chair. Very briefly. It's very interesting what you said in terms of—and I might be paraphrasing, so please tell me if I'm incorrect—that you feel that 'town centre' is wrongheaded, and it should be 'towns'. And I'm interested in that, but I still…
, Plenary
Short Debate: A Welsh cultural renaissance post COVID? The plan for music and access for all
In Wales it is right that from September our new national plan for Wales prescribes that a lack of money does not prevent in particular our young people from learning music, further that music is not anymore the birthright for those who can afford to pay to…
, Plenary
Short Debate: A Welsh cultural renaissance post COVID? The plan for music and access for all
Diolch, Llywydd. I'm very pleased to be able to give a minute of this debate—sadly, only a minute—to my colleagues Jayne Bryant, across the Chamber, Sam Rowlands and Delyth Jewell. Diolch.
, Plenary
Debate: Broadcasting
Do you think that there are potentially ulterior motives in the proposal to sell off Channel 4, and it has more to do with control?
, Plenary
Debate: Broadcasting
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that, First Minister. I am proud, however, that our Welsh Labour Government has rightly committed to delivering free school meals to all primary school children in Wales. A recent letter to the UK Government from teaching unions set out the…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
6. How is the Welsh Government supporting parents of primary school pupils in Islwyn with the cost of the school day? OQ58190
, Finance Committee
Group 4: Expiry of the power under section 1 (Amendments 11, 6)
Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Group 4: Expiry of the power under section 1 (Amendments 11, 6)
It's just for clarification in regard to amendment 6. So, to underscore that it's a period of up to five years, and therefore it could be within two years, as in the proposed amount.
, Finance Committee
Group 1: Scope of the power in section 1 (Amendments 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 21, 13)
With regard to amendment 13, I think there was discussion and different evidence to this committee with regard to the purposes of defining tax avoidance. I think it was a mixed commentary around that. For instance, on Mike's point around the loopholes, there…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Welsh Economy
Thank you. Would you acknowledge that the rise in national insurance contributions is going to hit the poorest people, pro rata, the most, and that this is taxation by stealth?
