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20 February 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

… sure, that we've all had a number of e-mails from members of unions in the National Library of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru, conveying concerns about cuts, but specifically in terms of the safety of the national …

6 February 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

… compulsory redundancies are likely. Of concern is the fact that some of the organisations, such as the National Library of Wales, and, I believe, the Arts Council of Wales, have actually opened the schemes having just recently changed …

17 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Minister for Economy

… expect them, in those conversations that you have in official meetings with the national museum, with the National Library of Wales and so on, to be quite explicit and upfront with you if they thought at any moment …

17 January 2024, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships

… that gap for apprenticeship providers, that is more than the combined budget of Amgueddfa Cymru and the National Library of Wales. We could close both organisations and still not meet the gap to meet current contract values. Nobody …

9 January 2024, Plenary

Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25

Amgueddfa Cymru have had their funding cut—£2 million—funding for the National Library of Wales cut from £11.8 million to £11.1 million, Cadw from £9.2 million to £7.4 million. There's more. The Royal Commission on the …

9 January 2024, Plenary

Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25

… cultural institutions at a time of growing national confidence. As Andrew Green, the former librarian at the National Library of Wales wrote last week: 'At the centre of government there’s a fatal lack of understanding and lack …

20 December 2023, Finance Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 1

… when you factored in the significant impact of cuts to our national cultural institutions, such as the National Library of Wales, the museum, and Sport Wales, which has already been massively underfunded in Wales compared to the rest …

29 November 2023, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales

… needs'. Since the situation at that time was not sustainable, how has the Welsh Government and the National Library of Wales addressed this …

29 November 2023, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales

… agree, Mr Slade, that, when it comes to public money being spent on areas such as the National Library of Wales, I think the public and we also have an interest to know where that money's going …

23 November 2023, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Scrutiny of the National Library of Wales - Autumn 2023

… move straight on to item 2, the scrutiny of the National Library of Wales. This is a general scrutiny session, and we are very pleased to have our witnesses with us today. And I'll ask the witnesses …

18 October 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Economy

Diolch, Llywydd. Over the past decade, both the National Library of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru have written to Welsh Government and the culture committee to warn of the risks to national collections because of budgetary constraints. Both the …

12 July 2023, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru

… public sector landscape in Wales—so, the delivery partners for the contemporary arts gallery, clearly, and the National Library of Wales, and the arts council, local museums, and other cultural organisations where the collections can be displayed and …

5 July 2023, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 2 - interest groups

… aware that there's a very interesting website that's been developed, obviously, via the National Library of Wales. I hope that somehow, maybe, this will all be joined up so that there'd be one place that …

5 July 2023, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners

Good morning. I'm Pedr ap Llwyd, chief executive and national librarian at the National Library of Wales …

10 May 2023, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Papers to note

… still none the wiser as to whether the national collections are safe in Amgueddfa Cymru or the National Library of Wales. And I think that if there is a risk, an ongoing risk, then we need to have …

3 May 2023, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Wales-Ireland relations: evidence session with the Cherish Project

… ask them if they'd accept a consortium funding approach, which is to say ourselves, the National Library of Wales, the Welsh archaeological trusts. You have to have a certain number of research active staff and …

29 March 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1

… contribution at that point can. Otherwise, who would we be listing out? Would we be listing the National Library of Wales, or, I mean, which public bodies did you have in mind? So, what we've done …

2 March 2023, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Governments Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 - Evidence Session - part 2

… were guarantees given by the National Assembly for Wales for the national museum pension scheme and the National Library of Wales pension scheme. So, in effect, as I said, we inherited those, and potentially they're £57 million …

31 January 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Economy

… piece-by-piece basis, but certainly we have provided for individual organisations—libraries, National Museum Wales, the National Library of Wales and so on—additional funding to get them through this immediate crisis, and, as I say, with …

25 January 2023, Plenary

Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report—'Increasing costs: Impact on culture and sport'

… Welsh Ministers have agreed collectively to provide £4.175 million during the 2022-23 financial year to the National Library of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum Wales, the arts sector via the Arts Council of Wales, the sports sector …