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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day
I'm grateful to the Minister for her statement. I was fortunate enough to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau as a teenager through my school. The stillness and silence that enveloped the concentration camp, the lack of colour or joy and the weight of the atrocities…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
Well, it was to come back to my initial point with regard to the budget. Should a border control point be built for one port, rather than two ports, there would be a financial benefit there such that I would guess that has crossed your desk as economy…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
Okay. A couple of years back, the Welsh Affairs Select Committee at Westminster, in one of its evidence sessions, determined that there was a potential long-term—. A solution to the issue within south Wales is one port working from Pembrokeshire, so an…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
And with regard to the two ports in west Wales, there was a preferred location put forward. Is that still—? Is that remaining the preferred location?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
So, just to clarify with regard to locations, if I may, which is a step slightly removed from the budget, but I'll bring it back to it. So, am I correct in assuming a location is determined for the Holyhead BCP?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
So, that's the transferring of the running costs, not the capital infrastructure costs. Because your written statement, which came out yesterday, for the benefit of the committee: 'Since the Spending Review, the UK Government has agreed in principle to fund…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
Diolch, Cadeirydd. And I'd like to declare an interest on this point, as a border control post has potentially been mooted in my constituency, which also has a port. But, given the evidence you submitted to the committee when you appeared before us in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
Thank you, Chair. I'm content with the answers given because I'm about the stray, like Luke was, into Vikki's questioning on hospitality, and I wouldn't want to do that, so I'm happy to go back to you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Minister, for the answer. Coming back to that, then, with regard to your answer that it would be very difficult to find that £35 million again for a business support fund, what support is the Welsh Government offering via its…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
So, given—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Economy
Diolch, Cadeirydd, and good morning, Minister. On 23 December, it was announced that the £35 million business support fund would be withdrawn as a result of the emergency support package for business. Given your original intention that this fund would support…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Just a very small question, if I may, Chair. With regard to enforcement, Minister: RSPCA—are they someone that you would be looking to work with in regard to the enforcement element?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Cool. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
And with regard to the consultation that you mentioned and the option of tabular evaluations, isn't one of the consequences of that that farmers will actually receive less money, and therefore the budget is less, so that financial element of it is constrained…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Well, can I just ask on that then, Minister—? Can I just ask: if that is the ambition—to eradicate it—what's the time frame for that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you. And you mentioned there the overspend, which you mentioned in the Chamber in the annual TB statement as well. Isn't it the case, and forgive my bluntness on this, that if we fixed the problem of bovine TB we wouldn't have the overspend? So, by…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you, Chair. Minister, thank you, and TB, bovine TB, is obviously an issue that you and I have discussed previously and I'm reluctant to call it a pet project of mine, but it's something that is of deep importance to the agricultural community. So, given…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you, Chair. With regard to livestock identification and movement, how are ambitions for the updating and the increase of that from Welsh Government being made in the budget allocations, especially around equine ID and the digitisation of equine…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Excellent. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Fabulous. Finally, with regard to the new sustainable farming scheme, how would this be funded in terms of the extra administration costs that might come from the unique contracts, or, especially in the discussions you and I have had previously in the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Fantastic. And in terms of that, every budget that I can see in front of me from the research team has seen an increase. Nearly everyone has had a double-digit increase, bar economy, which is at 9.9 per cent, but climate change has seen one of the largest…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
To follow on from the Chair's questions regarding funding, information from the research team has suggested that, in comparison with the financial year 2021-22 and the draft budget of 2022-23, rural affairs will see an increase of 10.3 per cent, equating to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Yes, fantastic. Good morning, Minister.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session with the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Thank you, Chair. Apologies, my internet is causing a few issues at the moment, so please bear with me. Can you hear me okay?
