, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Could you give us examples, and maybe an outline of how you are performing against some of those?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Because I was going to ask, what baseline are you using, then? Or is it just a case of getting started?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
—stuff and the corporate performance, because your paper says that the corporate performance scorecard isn't publicly available at present whilst you work to benchmark those key performance indicators? Given that that broadly reflects what you told us 18…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Yes, sure. I know we're going to drill down into some of these issues around growth and other things in a moment. Can I just come back to the corporate—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Okay. Clearly, there are financial pressures. I don't know if you want to tell us anything about this current financial year or the outlook for next year, or is that too early for you to—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
No, I wasn't suggesting that. No, but it's always a tussle, isn't it, to find that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
It's striking that balance, isn't it, between accountability and experience.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Yes, Ministers are suffering from the bends, I think, there are so many deep-dives going on. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
With the Government, or internally?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
—streamlined, more effective, because clearly what you've articulated to us in the past about the number of touch points that you had with Government in your negotiations, it seemed to us to be quite ridiculous?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
But, in terms of process, are you now much more satisfied that things are more—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
We'll move on to the second item, which is our annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales. This is something that we did last in March of last year, so it's timely that you are with us here once again for this scrutiny session, to gather evidence, primarily, for…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Excellent. Interpretation equipment is available for simultaneous translation from Welsh to English. Do Members have any declarations of interest to make? No, I see that there are none. I should also note that we have received an apology from Janet…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
All in order? Is it working? Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee. Welcome, Members, to this committee meeting. This meeting is being held in a hybrid format, and aside from the adaptations relating to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
Content.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Happy to note, yes.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Yes, certainly. Certainly. And I would be very keen to hear from them trying to justify their attitude.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Yes. And I think that's an attitude that belongs to the 1970s, not to 2023. It's an arrogant attitude, an insulting attitude, one might say. And if that's the corporate attitude of HSBC to the Welsh language, I think there's a duty on us as a committee to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
May I raise a point with regard to HSBC and the correspondence telling Members that they won't be providing a Welsh language phone service from the new year on? I think there's an irony that the letter reached us monolingually in English in the first place. I…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
No, no, I appreciate that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
Just on the same subject: so, without asking you to express an opinion, objectively, from an ITV point of view, what do you think the advantages or the disadvantages, or the advantages and the disadvantages might be of devolving broadcasting to Wales?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
So, would you go as far as saying that that would warrant a different status? The Scottish FA Cup final has category A status in Scotland. There's a parallel there, isn't there, in terms of the significance of rugby, given that rugby matches with Wales often…
