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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Mike, before you carry on on that, just on that sort of way of thinking, you've said that you're looking at a more pessimistic model, just to make sure that anything above and beyond and better than that will be a benefit. Did you do any modelling at 50 per…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you. I’ll bring Mike Hedges in that point.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Just a follow-up, before I come over to Mike, then: what would be the impact on the model if you had 100 per cent take-up, so that, basically, you made it mandatory across Wales, rather than optional?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you very much, and one last question from me before I come to Mike Hedges. One of your assumptions in the analysis is that the visitor levy is applied equally across all Welsh local authorities. Could you outline the rationale for why you’ve done that…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
[Inaudible.]—a sense that it follows the same—. It doesn’t take into account variations or proportionality between those aspects.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you for that. You've talked a little bit there about data and that you struggle a little bit with data being up to date and the collection there. But you also mentioned that, in your input-output tables methodology, you can't estimate the changes in the…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Even with COVID in the middle?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
You've noted—. I've noted that you've used data from 2019, which is, I think, in some instances, the most current data that you've got, unless you've then received any further, extra data that's more up to date, especially bearing in mind what happened in…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you for making the time to come and give evidence this morning, and thank you very much for your written evidence and your report as well—very informative. I'd just like to look at a little bit of your methodology in coming up with your conclusions to…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
The Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill, evidence session 3. So, we're joined by our next witness. I'd just like him to introduce himself for the record, please.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Welcome back now to session 3 of this inquiry.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you very much.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you so much for this session—very helpful in putting context around your research, and thanks for the work that you've already done. It is valuable work. There will be a transcript available for you to check for accuracy on what…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Anything to add? And your final comment, I think, before we wrap up this session.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Anything to add?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you very much. And seeing as we’ve talked about data quite a bit in this session, what data do you think should be collected to effectively monitor and evaluate the implementation of the levy across Wales, and what did you learn regarding the…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you for that. I’ll just move on to the last couple of questions, then. I’m just a little bit conscious of time, but maybe if I come to Rhys first with the next one, and if there’s anything further he wants to comment on that—. You noted that the…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Of course, yes.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you for that. I’ll move on. We’ve got, hopefully, just over five minutes left, and I’ve got, probably, three more questions, so brevity might be good. You noted that in most jurisdictions the assessment of the impact of the projects funded post spending…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Mike—. Sorry, Rhys.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Linda. There we are.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Diolch. Thank you. I'll bring Mike Hedges in at that point, so—. There we are. Mike.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
[Inaudible.]—and I'll bring Mike in, then. What about educational visits? So, an overnight stay, similar to what Sam was suggesting there, with the Scouts, potentially, or the—. I can think of others, like the Urdd, where there are school visits, and that…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Yes, one more and then we'll go to Mike, then.
