, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 3
We need further clarity then.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you, Chair. It's just really to explore this perspective around the Welsh proposed penalty. I take your points that you've made that you've got this objection with regard to this facility for Wales ministerially, if it's not within primary legislation…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
Without over-egging the pudding, because I think you've made your position quite clear, I will ask the question: do you think any of the purposes could be considered too vague? You may feel you've answered that. What improvements could be made to them? And do…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
In relation to the purposes surrounding the courts and tribunals, and the change in interpretation by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, you suggest that this would be more appropriate to be followed through with primary legislation. Can you briefly…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
Can I just briefly follow that up, Lakshmi? Do you think the purposes should be narrower? In your view, could further constraints be built into the Bill, or do you feel that that would be self-defeating, bearing in mind what you both just said?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you. You also noted in your evidence that there is quite wide discretion in relation to the term 'tax avoidance'. Do you think that the scope of this purpose within the four purposes should be narrower, more defined? I'm asking you to be clear…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you. I think it was Lakshmi that mentioned the need, obviously, for a process of review, if not within the wording of the legislation. So, do you feel—you've touched upon this—that secondary legislation—both of you, you can give a brief answer—would be…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 2
Diolch, Chair. Thank you. That leads me on to the next line of questions, which we've already slightly touched upon. In regard to the comments around the Bill being used to address potentially unknown future events, could you give examples or potential…
, Finance Committee
Papers to note
Thank you. Just a comment in regard to the letter with regard to the finance Ministers' quadrilateral meeting that took place on 12 January. She placed, in the third paragraph around the item on COVID funding, the importance of certainty to spend on effective…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Wales and Europe—Managing a new relationship
Thank you, Minister, for an important update to the Senedd. I very much welcome the experience and expertise that Derek Vaughan will bring to this role. As you rightly state, it's imperative that we do all that we can to maintain and foster that excellent…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Diolch, Llywydd, and thank you for taking the intervention. It's a very simple question, and it goes to the root of some of the points that have been made, Darren Millar. How is it good for democracy if it is harder to register to vote and it is therefore…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch. On 12 December last year, following the £1.2 million investment to upgrade the Ebbw Vale line, an hourly direct passenger service between Crosskeys and Newport recommenced after a gap of 60 years. Minister, I along with colleagues met with…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
8. Will the Minister provide an update on railway services in Islwyn? OQ57511
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note: Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Thank you. I'm content. I have some reservations, so I'll wait and see the response and that is—. At this point, I'll wait to see the response, but I know that we have a hugely packed forward work programme, and I wouldn't want us to be deviating into areas…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Okay, and finally, if I may, because I'm not quite clear I had an answer, in regard to the evaluation of both the process in terms of the Government's approach, and the public bodies unit itself as that grouping, at what point do you think the committee will…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Thank you. Finally, then, if I may, could you just touch upon the training and development pathways for those sponsorship role individuals and how that's assessed? I would have thought that that's pretty easy to answer. And how the Welsh Government is…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Okay. You've touched upon a theme throughout this session, the impact of COVID and the capacity within the unit. Could you give us any assurance about the principle that the lead sponsor would ordinarily be at deputy director band or above, because obviously…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Okay. That was a poorly put question then, perhaps. My question, really, was in terms of the public bodies unit and the processes, the new term of Government approach. It is the processes within the public bodies unit's way of working that I'm thinking…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Public Bodies Unit: Evidence Session with the Welsh Government
Thank you, Chair, and Natasha. Can I just ask before my line of questioning around the sponsorship role of individual departments, and I don't know whether I missed it before Mike Hedges, in terms of the tailored reviews? In regard to the actual new term of…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, First Minister. As a former member of the BBC Broadcasting Council for Wales, I want to declare for the record. Since the Tories took control of the UK Government in 2010, the BBC's budget has taken an estimated 30 per cent cut in real terms. Now…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. What representations has the Welsh Government made to the UK Government concerning the governance of the British Broadcasting Corporation? OQ57513
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
In that regard, in regard to the new mechanism around disputes, is this one of the areas that we will be looking at? Nobody wants, as has been stated previously, to raise such matters through such a mechanism now that we have one, but I would have thought, on…
