22 January 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
8. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the evidence base underlying the Government's position on rent controls? OQ62168
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Gadeirydd. It looks like there's potentially some good news on this front: the UK Government and the Welsh Government are discussing a way forward on this particular issue. So, I would be minded to keep it open until we have a further update on that…
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I think it's important that the petition goes to a relevant committee that can take it forward in a constructive way. In terms of this committee, we have reached the end of that. But it doesn't mean to say that the climate change committee or other committees…
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Cadeirydd. As I said last time, I'm sympathetic to this particular petition, especially considering, back in the day, when I used to work in hospitality and how impossible it was to get a bus late into the night after you'd finished your shift, let…
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I can see that the Government has commissioned some research on this and is due to report in February of this year. So, given that we have waited this long, we should keep the petition open, waiting for that research to be published.
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I can see that the petition was successful, so could we congratulate the petitioner and close the petition? But just before we close that petition, just ask for a date from the Government on when they see it coming into force, and when they…
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I'm very sympathetic with this petition, actually. It could be worth us highlighting this with the Cabinet Secretary as well as the Local Government and Housing Committee. Firstly with the Cabinet Secretary just to receive some initial…
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes. Diolch, Gadeirydd. I think £10 million is a very low bar. We wouldn't be able to do anything if we were to go by that point. But the reality is there is a clearly set out process already here in the Senedd through the budget. We're going through the…
20 January 2025 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Diolch, Gadeirydd. At the moment, I know the standards committee is doing work around this, so can I just suggest that we just keep this open until that work is completed by the standards committee?
15 January 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
I take the point that the Cabinet Secretary made around needing to consider where we make that investment in steel here in south Wales, but we already know what's coming down the line, don't we? We have massive opportunities and you alluded to those with…
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. Great.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, you're confident the allocation within this budget year will see you through.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes. So, it comes back to what you said earlier about the continuous need to review this particular budget, but I suppose one of the concerns I might have is that the freeze in revenue this year might impact, then, those fishery management plans coming…
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. So, thinking about the revenue, then, for fisheries management, you mentioned in your paper that the fishery management plan procedure is going to be evidence hungry, essentially. That indicates to me that it'll take a while for some of these management…
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay, so you mentioned round 5. What lessons were learned from round 4, then, and have been taken forward into this budget?
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Cadeirydd. If I could just come to fisheries, the fishery management budget remains relatively unchanged, but there is the additional £1 million for capital funding. How do you envisage that being spent?
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Diolch.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Well, one of them was more just how—. It was more of a technical, but I’m happy for that to go in writing. I’m confident I’ll get a response to that.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
I mean, the Government’s position was that expenditure would be coming down in this particular field anyway.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Yes, because to be fair, there’s a lot of things at play here, isn’t there?
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
So, the costs have gone down, essentially, have they? That's why the reduction is there.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Diolch, Cadeirydd. If I could go to border policy and direct my questions to the Deputy First Minister, looking at the border controls BEL, there's been a reduction of 36.5 per cent. Could you explain why that reduction has happened?
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Okay. I'm going to have to hand back to you, Chair.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Perhaps I'll write back to you with a couple more questions. [Laughter.] I really want delve into some of this, but the time is restrictive. The final one is the point around the regional development aspect of the budget. There's £2 million that's been…
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning and the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Okay. Again, I'm conscious of time, so I'm going to have to try and get through these pretty quickly. On the Tech Valleys programme, there's a commitment there to invest £100 million over 10 years. How will the draft budget allocation drive some of the…
