30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
So, if I had something that was £200,000 and I was getting a rate of return of 0.5 per cent, I'd think I'm in the wrong business.
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
What's the value of the property you're talking about?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
I don't see the accounts of these businesses, but I'd be surprised if many of them were in such a situation that paying £1.75 per person per night would actually mean them closing. Do you know how I can get access to those accounts?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
But, can I just say, as somebody who was born and brought up on a council estate, I find it difficult to be told by somebody who, I would assume, has had a very privileged background that I don't understand about low-income families? I'd like to put that on…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
And you also know that prices vary, not only at different times of the year, but on demand. In a budget hotel, I paid £120 for a room for one night in north Wales, and, the same room in the same hotel, I paid under £50 at roughly the same time of the year…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
You talked about prices earlier, and I did want to come in at that stage, but I did a quick check again. If you were renting accommodation in Cornwall or renting it in Blackpool, Cornwall's roughly twice the price for almost every item of accommodation. Why…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Diolch, Cadeirydd. It's fairly common, isn't it, a visitor levy, across the world, certainly across western Europe. France brought one in at the beginning of the last century. Do you know anywhere, which, having had a visitor levy, has decided to end it?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Finally from me, you noted that the principle of raising the levy on children and young people under 16 years of age was unreasonable—a view that others have expressed. Has the Welsh Government responded to you on that?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
You said that 'registration and administration requirements for businesses need to be as simple...as possible', but we know that most of western Europe already has this levy, and we are an outlier in Britain and Wales in not having it. Is there anything…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Your written evidence emphasised the importance of clear communication around the benefits of the levy, given concerns by some businesses. Would you envisage the need for local authorities to carry out preparation work with stakeholders to…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
I won't say any more, I just think we’ve overcomplicated something that is really simple and it’s done in the rest of the world. I’ll end there, Chair.
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
I’m just speaking from personal experience. I'm going to north Wales this weekend, and I’ve gone through Booking.com and they’ve taken my money now and I assume that if I’m paying a levy, they’ve taken the levy as part of that booking.
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Everybody I know who is working for you actually speaks Welsh fluently, so I'm sure you've got an awful lot of Welsh speakers there. The final bit is: the Bill permits visitor accommodation providers to allow third parties to make returns and pay the levy on…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
I mean, you're experienced in collecting money, with land transaction tax and the landfill disposals tax, for example. Will the processes be very similar to that for collecting the levy?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Maybe the sound wasn’t loud enough, or I’m not talking loudly enough. A theme from the Welsh Government’s consultation summary of responses is the potential for the legislation to place an administrative burden on smaller accommodation providers. Why would it…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Diolch, Cadeirydd. What I’d start by saying is that a lot of what we’ve heard is as if we’re the first place in the world to do it. As seen from the Welsh Government consultation summary responses, there is the potential for legislation to place an…
29 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Adroddiad y Pwyllgor Cyllid, 'Cyfalaf Trafodiadau Ariannol'
Yn dilyn fy awgrym, rwy'n falch fod y Pwyllgor Cyllid wedi cytuno i gynnal ymchwiliad byr i gyfalaf trafodiadau ariannol. Yn rhy aml yma, mae cyfalaf trafodiadau ariannol wedi bod yn rhywbeth sy'n digwydd nad ydym yn trafod llawer arno, ac ychydig iawn o bobl…
29 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiadau 90 Eiliad
Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Dydd Iau 30 Ionawr yw Diwrnod Atal Strôc. Mae strôc yn digwydd yn sydyn, ac fel arfer heb rybudd. Rwy’n mynychu dau grŵp strôc lleol, un yn Nhreforys ac un yn Nhrallwng, gyda phobl yn eu 30au cynnar a hŷn sydd wedi cael strôc yn…
29 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Hoffwn innau hefyd amlinellu’r gwaith da sy’n cael ei wneud gan Gymdeithas Camlas Abertawe. Adeiladwyd y gamlas rhwng 1794 a 1798, ac roedd yn arfer ymestyn 16 milltir a hanner o Abertawe i Aber-craf. Heddiw, dim ond 5 milltir o gamlas Abertawe sy'n gwbl…
29 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
A gaf i ddiolch i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet am ei ateb? Rwyf wedi bod yn gefnogol i'r syniad o fuddsoddi i arbed ers amser maith. Rwy’n gefnogol i ddarpariaeth benthyciadau di-log gyda chyfnodau ad-dalu hyblyg i wasanaethau cyhoeddus, gyda’r nod o’u helpu i…
29 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
3. A wnaiff yr Ysgrifennydd Cabinet roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am y cynllun buddsoddi i arbed? OQ62195
27 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o weddill y cyfarfod
Can I now move, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(vi), that I invite the committee to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting? Do Members agree? We now move into private session.
27 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papurau i’w nodi
Right. Correspondence from the Scottish Parliament’s Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee: framework legislation and Henry VIII powers. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee writes to express thanks for the evidence provided by the committee, in…
27 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papurau i’w nodi
Any comments, Kate? No. Okay. Gareth.
27 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papurau i’w nodi
Item 6, papers to note. Correspondence with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: legislative consent memoranda on the Water (Special Measures) Bill. This item concerns correspondence with the Deputy First…
