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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Will you take an intervention?
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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
When you talk about £1.30 a night, you need to add the VAT on that for a lot of businesses. That comes up to £1.57. If you do the calculation on £500 for a cheap week in a caravan in my constituency, that's £65 extra tax for a family of five or six. So…
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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Will you accept an intervention?
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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Tourism in Wales is not a 'nice to have' on the margins of our economy, it is one of the load-bearing pillars of it. Welsh Government's own data shows that this sector directly supports more than 150,000 jobs—nearly 12 per cent of all employment in Wales—and…
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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Llywydd, I move the motion in the name of Llŷr Powell.
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Reform UK Debate: The tourism sector
Diolch. For the record, I refer Members to my register of interests. Deputy Presiding Officer, I move the motion in the name of—. Hold on.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Committee remit
Okay, I understand. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Committee remit
Right, even though we don't have international relations any more; obviously, that's with somebody else, isn't it?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Committee remit
I understand that the remit is to examine and hold the Welsh Government to account, but we've also got 'consider any matter affecting Wales', which could be vast. So, it contradicts that, with the statements. How does that fit in with the statement of just…
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Business Statement and Announcement
The UK Government closed the listed places of worship scheme on 31 March. A £92 million replacement fund was found, but exclusively for England. This means that churches and chapels across Wales faced a 20 per cent VAT increase overnight on every single…
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
It's great to actually be here in the Senedd, because I have spent the last nine years complaining about the funding formula from the council chambers up in Conwy, and all the time we would be asking our leaders to go and ask Welsh Government Ministers to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
7. What consideration has the Cabinet Minister given to reforming the local government funding formula? OQ64205
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
I wanted to focus on cultural events as part of access to the arts. A lot of the problems are around grant funding. So, cultural events are often set up by cultural teams, which have to access pots of grants—the shared prosperity grant being one recently that…
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Statement by the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport: Priorities for Culture and Sport
As Welsh learner champion for my previous county council, I'm happy to discuss how you get people like me speaking Welsh. But be aware, the evidence is clear—coercion drives resentment, not fluency. If the Welsh Government is serious about 1 million Welsh…
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Statement by the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport: Priorities for Culture and Sport
I've been learning Welsh for two years now. I've enjoyed learning the language, but it is difficult. I do need support. I will practice my skills with you at the Eisteddfod this year.
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Statement by the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport: Priorities for Culture and Sport
Thank you for your statement, Minister. I note at the start that you say that the financial situation is challenging, but I must remind you that you were part of the budgetary process for the last few years, so this must come as no surprise, as you signed off…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, Healthy Prestatyn Iach was created in 2016 as a flagship response to the collapse of GP services in north Denbighshire—three practices terminating their contracts in a single year because they could not recruit enough doctors. A decade on…
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Questions to the First Minister
2. Will the First Minister make a statement on the provision of GP services in Clwyd? OQ64187
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy Priorities
In relation to the question I'm going to ask, I'd like to declare that I have a small self-catering unit next to my home. All the economic impact assessments that I've read recently relating to the tourism levy, which your party supported, show a potential…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Dan Thomas.
