, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
No, it was that a previous Senedd committee recommended that the channel 3 licence should require you to produce a greater proportion of network content in Wales and that the Welsh Government should have a formal role in the process—I'm not sure quite how…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
Only one more question, really, just looking for your perspectives. A previous Senedd committee recommended—and we talked about the channel 3 licence quite a bit, earlier—that it should require a greater proportion of network content in Wales and that the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
Fine.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
Thank you, Chairman, and good morning. I'd like to follow on from Alun's theme about investment in Wales, but more focused on the network content. Because it's quite a stark fact, then, that your 2022 network spend in Wales plummeted to virtually nothing—of…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
I felt reassured by that, so I was pleased to hear that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
Well, I feel reassured about that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
A last question from me at the moment, Chair, is that we sometimes feel like we're a little bit, in Wales, perhaps less important than other areas, and we're trying to get our heads around why, in comparison to the spend in Scotland, Wales perhaps didn't…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
Well, thanks for that, and I really appreciate your enthusiasm for that investment in Wales. I was pleased to note that you've met your targets around spend on English-language TV services, especially through 2019-20, and I just wonder: how do you plan for…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with BBC
Thank you, Chair, and good morning, everybody. It's been an absolutely fascinating conversation so far, and I'm really pleased to see the enthusiasm for further investment and things in Wales, and that's where I'd like to just focus a little bit on financial…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you.
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you for that. My last question, then. A cost for an application programme interface to bridge the voter information platform with the electoral management systems has not been calculated. Has there been any indication of potential costs from the EMS…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thanks; that's clearer. I've got a couple of questions, Chair, now, around exploring the costs of introducing the legislative changes. Can you provide an indication of what the funding mechanism is expected to be for the Welsh Government to support local…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. So, I can understand that it's not very clear yet what the costings might be. Recognising, then, that these pilots are going to be rolled out by local authorities and the Electoral Commission, and we don't know at the moment what that cost would be…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
On the pilots, obviously, you've demonstrated it's work in progress, but just to dig a little deeper, what is your ambition for the pilots? What's the scale of the pilots that you would want and is there evidence of similar approaches that you could draw on…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, you've got a picture in your mind, but, for all of those commercial reasons, you have to hold that back a bit. I can see some of that. Moving on, changes to the automatic voter registration will be introduced through secondary legislation. Can you…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to just explore issues around automatic registration and the pilots. I note that the costs regarding changes to the EMS—the electoral management systems—are unknown because of its specialist nature. Could you explain why you can't…
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Yes, thank you for that.
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
There's always an opportunity cost here. You could have decided to put £100,000 into transport, and put another £25 million into health, recognising that the problem is more severe in health. What's the determinant to come down to that, because it is weighing…
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
—and you decided, 'They can have a big bit' and 'They can have a smaller bit'? How did you decide how you were going to allocate?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Okay, great—thanks. Just a quick question, then, on prioritisation and allocation to the departments. It's trying to get under this £425 million figure for NHS and £125 million for Transport for Wales. It would be good to understand: were these allocations…
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you for that. You also mentioned that there would be an addendum to the strategic impact assessment. Will this be provided with the next supplementary budget, and what form is it likely to take?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Yes. Does that overprogrammed £61 million stay there?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Are you carrying that forward?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
Yes, a couple of questions. The capital budget was overprogrammed by £61 million in the first supplementary budget. Has this plan, in year, altered the figure or changed anything around your capital assumptions?
, Finance Committee
Update on Welsh Government 2023-24 in-year financial position: Evidence session
That's a fair comment.
