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5,536 speeches and questions

30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
But they would fall within the remit of this legislation, in that case. Thank you for that clarification.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
And would they pay for those?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
And then, I'm just thinking out loud, with the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Royal Welsh Show and the Urdd Eisteddfod, they pop up for a week a year in different parts of the country. Would there be a similar sort of situation there?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
So, that would be—. In a registration process, they would need to be registered.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
That's the one, yes.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Based on pop-up sites that you're aware of, and you have some—. You talked about 200-and-something registered sites that don't operate all year round, but are there—? How does that work with regard to the planning and the regulation that you've already got?…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
What sort of information is collected at that level at the moment?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Just on that, it would be piecemeal then, though, wouldn't it, rather than a national register?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Of course. Thank you very much for that. I'll hand over to Sam Rowlands.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
So, that day-tripper or overnight-stay aspect, do you have a handle on that at all, or is it just that it doesn't—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Any thoughts on that particular aspect, William, or just—?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
So, has that shifted from overnight to day-trippers? Is that where that's gone? Are people still coming, but they're not staying, or are they just not coming at all, or don't you know?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Thanks, Rhianon. So, you've mentioned in your evidence that the implementation of the levy would compound some of the effects of existing Government policies already impacting the tourist sector. Could you elaborate a little bit on that, and maybe give us a…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
That's a very interesting point. I'll bring Rhianon in. I think she wants to come in on this point.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Yes, and I've got Rhianon who wants to come in as well, but, Sam, you go first.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
So, just following from what you're saying, that it needs to be that additional bit, how would you do it? How would you have that confidence that that money would be spent on the additional bit? Is there anything extra you'd want in the Bill or in guidance?…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
We've heard today from quite a few about additionality, and making sure that it is additional and not instead of, and that's something that's become quite clear in some evidence, to say, 'Well, it shouldn't be to replace or to displace spending in that area'…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
If we follow that point, then, to start off with, you've got concerns regarding the ring-fencing of the levies for local authorities and how they would potentially spend those, and it is on the face of the Bill what those broad areas are. What are your…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay. Anything to add, Emma?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay, thank you very much. Emma or Katherine.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Fantastic. Thank you very much, and thanks for making the time to come here today and travelling down to Cardiff. We’re very pleased to have you here. We’ve been taking evidence from different stakeholders all day, and we’ll have an hour now with you to try…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
No, no, that's fine.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Oh, sorry.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Thank you very much.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Thank you very much, Emma.