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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Cabinet Secretary, in your previous role as First Minister, when there was a Conservative Government, you were very outspoken, were you not, in your calls for more funding for Wales, claiming that the Conservative Government wasn’t providing enough, as you’ve…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Thank you very much. Thanks, Chair.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Okay, thank you for that. And to what extent do you think that the Welsh Government’s draft culture priorities, which were discussed in the summer, should help cultural bodies mitigate the impact of the reduced funding?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
—from the Welsh Government. A previous witness from the arts council called it a 'sticking plaster'.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Thank you. What is the impact of the royal commission receiving additional funding from the Welsh Government midway through the financial year? In September, the royal commission received an extra £90,000 revenue—
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Thanks.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Just really quickly, Chair—. Thank you for that. Just to say that it's great, as you said, for opening up the school facilities after hours for the families and the children, but it's also for the adults, it's also for those sports clubs that can't train on…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
It did for me.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
It does, but those are the sticking points.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
I agree with you there. As you were saying earlier, not enough of the health budget is coming in, so not enough of the—. The staff to man those out-of-hours to enable those facilities to be used I'm assuming it would come from the school budget, so that's…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Is it my questions now? Great. Good, that follows on. My next question is to what extent Sport Wales collaborated with other institutions to mitigate the impact of declining public funding. On this—I just have a supp before I give you that question—I used to…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Sorry—going off on one. [Laughter.]
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Thank you. Sorry, for being late, No. 1. I'm just wondering, I do—. Of course, I share my colleagues' concerns that sport and culture are the first things to always be cut, yet, as you've just outlined—and I've always been a big advocate for it so there's no…
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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Natural Resources Wales—Annual Scrutiny 2023-24'
I'm not on this committee, but I do welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate today. It'll just be a short contribution on something that's playing on my mind. Obviously, there's a lot to talk about when it comes to NRW, and I concur with everything…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you. Cabinet Secretary, independent schools like Haberdashers’ in Monmouth make an enormous contribution not just to the education of children, but also to the local economy, being the town’s largest employer and drawing in visitors who support local…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
3. What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the contribution that independent schools make to the education of pupils in Wales? OQ61587
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Cabinet Secretary, I fully support Rhianon Passmore’s concern about Caerphilly Labour council’s lack of support for community venues. However, a quick look at the council’s accounts tells you the problem can be solved. Caerphilly Labour council are sitting on…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: More homes towards ending homelessness
Cabinet Secretary, with winter fast approaching, what urgent action is this Government going to take to stop the disaster in our city from getting worse? Thank you.
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: More homes towards ending homelessness
—is doing an incredible job—yes, of course—handing out 130 food bags per week, but the demand is rising—
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: More homes towards ending homelessness
Thank you for your statement, Cabinet Secretary, and it's good to see you being so proactive in your new role. Last week, I met with the legendary Paul Murphy from Pride in Pill, someone who is in our own patch, in our own city of Newport, and heard…
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Flooding—Preparing for winter
Thank you for your statement, Cabinet Secretary. The Government might be saying all the right things today, but words aren't really worth much when you're standing in your living room knee deep in water. Could I draw the Cabinet Secretary's attention to the…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
Thank you.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
That does sound a concern. How are you as an organisation seeking to mitigate the impact of funding reductions on people with protected characteristics and lower socioeconomic status? Thank you.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
Okay, thank you very much. What is the current status of your proposals to reshape the company in light of the reduced funding?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Welsh National Opera (3)
Just following on from what you said, it's arguably very important that everyone does everything that they can to protect the WNO, for all the reasons you outlined, and the chorus particularly. To what extent has the WNO collaborated with other institutions…
