9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
You also have declining funding, so something's got to give at some point, doesn't it?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
I just struggle, from a commonsense point of view, to understand that there are no savings across those organisations. Because I remember an inquiry by this committee eight years ago, when Ken Skates, as Cabinet Secretary, looked for back-office functions…
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
The other example you gave is procurement capacity.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
—but I find it hard to believe that CAD, for example, is not used across the public sector.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
I'm sure that some of these are specific to you—
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
Okay. Have you engaged with the Centre for Digital Public Services, for example?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
There's an additional £10,000 for cyber security, or is that within the—?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
Just on that theme, you gave us an example earlier that you're spending £110,000 a year on computers. Is there not room for collaboration there?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
Maybe, Chair, that's something we could think about in terms of follow-up action. Thank you.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
Sure, but I'm also thinking not just of the impact on you, I'm thinking of the impact on the speed of getting through planning applications for developers.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
And it's the applicants who are saying 'no', is it, or NRW?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (5)
Could I just follow that up? In your evidence, you mentioned that you're struggling to meet the demand for windfarm developments and other renewables, because you're not able to give Natural Resources Wales the information they need as quickly as they do it…
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Being alert is the important thing. Thank you.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Okay.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Well, every four years is not a spot check.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Would that include spot checks?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
So, what would be the oversight process for that?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Yes, but the principle of having oversight to make sure those cultures and procedures are followed through—
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Well, logically, what you just said to me was that—
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
And are you considering an oversight board, then, for the rest of the sector?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Okay. Very good. It's good to see that there's balance. Just in terms of the learning from that whole WRU experience for the rest of the sector, how have you sought to apply those lessons to the organisations that you fund?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
And she's the only one who's not a dame.
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Okay. That's active, is it?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
On the Rafferty oversight board, do you have any sense of how often that's been used, of cases referred to it?
9 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chwaraeon Cymru (4)
Okay. And just to close, I'm going to pivot onto a different subject, which is just a progress report on the way the WRU are getting on in implementing the recommendations made to it, and if you have a view on how they're doing with that.