, Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 7
Thank you. Ed, the independent commission suggested that there ought to be a principle established that funding changes confirmed after a fiscal event in the autumn can be managed across financial years. Do you think this would be a suitable approach, and…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 7
I think we can get hung up on what England's systems are for local government or a step higher. They are England. They are part of England. It would be like our city deals starting to demand a bigger say in different things as a regional entity. Well, they…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 7
I suppose it really needs our Government here to be almost, not creating a manifesto, but laying those expectations down of the new Government really quickly, to get those things established very early.
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 7
Yes, I think so. It's that dispute resolution, really, working through these things, so if we find there's a deficit in one area in a relationship, we address it, and do it in bite-sized parts. Are we trying to take too big a chunk to put right in one go…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 7
Just linked to the earlier questions about this mutual respect and parity of esteem, I don't know if we get ourselves too hung up and we should perhaps acknowledge that it's very difficult for a country with a population of 3 million to feel it has parity…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 7
No, I might end up stepping on another Member's questions.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
The arts and culture sector, as we've heard and we know, are very important not just to the Welsh economy but to our health, and you touched on that briefly then. Evidence published by the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at University College London…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. I've raised this question as, over the last couple of years, I have been approached by whistleblowers from two perspectives, firstly, from anonymous sources who know things are not right, but are fearful of the repercussions to them…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. What is the Welsh Government doing to ensure that whistleblower employees in Wales are able to speak up without fear? OQ61331
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes. I think Luke has got it spot on. We thank everybody who has engaged with this. Obviously, there was a huge debate, as we know, on the back of that huge petition, and I can see, then, why the counterargument then get frustrated that, perhaps, with the…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. It is a very serious petition and subject. We note that the petition closed around February, earlier this year, and that the Welsh Government had responded to the petitioner. We know that the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes, just to support Rhys in that way forward, and to recognise the very salient and key points that have been made here. Through my experience with looking at the Food (Wales) Bill and different things like that, I spoke many times with small-scale farmers…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. Obviously, this petition has been familiar to the committee for some while, right back from September 2023 when the petition closed for signatures at that point, and there's been quite a lot of correspondence and things around this. But…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Thank you, Chair, and we thank Tim Morgan for submitting this. Many of us will know this piece of road. It's a stretch that is extremely pleasurable to drive along if you want to take in the beautiful scenery of Powys, but it comes, obviously, with its many…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Chepstow bypass
I welcome this debate today because it gives another opportunity to shine a light on this serious problem in south-east Wales. Now, as many of you know, Chepstow sits at the gateway into Wales, but also a gateway for thousands of English commuters a day…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. With climate change shifting our weather patters, which, in turn, is likely to drive periods of extreme heat and prolonged periods without rain—not that this year is fitting that picture at the moment—we need to seriously think…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
3. What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of water security in Wales? OQ61272
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
Well, thank you for that. It still doesn't give me confidence that some authorities won't disapply it. Now, I can't understand why they would dream of that, because it is so fundamentally important, as we all seem to agree. And that's why it seems ironic that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
Well, I'm pleased you've said that. It's a shame that couldn't have been cemented at Stage 2 last week. Cabinet Secretary, I raised with you previously the explanatory memorandum for the Bill, where it mentions twice that the Bill will allow Ministers the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
Diolch, Llywydd, and good afternoon, Cabinet Secretary. Cabinet Secretary, at Stage 2 of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill last week, I sought to protect the single-person 25 per cent discount. For all of the issues with council tax that are…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 13: Review on use of powers (Amendments 37 and 40)
Yes, move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 13: Review on use of powers (Amendments 37 and 40)
Move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 13: Review on use of powers (Amendments 37 and 40)
Yes, move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 13: Review on use of powers (Amendments 37 and 40)
Move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 13: Review on use of powers (Amendments 37 and 40)
Move.
