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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
And we've lost it as a consequence. And when the committee start work on the review of the TCA, we will also hear that all respondents—all respondents—to the consultation report increased bureaucracy, costs, time and disruption to supply chains. Ninety per…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
And that, you see—. And that, you see—. The European citizen in our midst tells a direct lie, because—. It is direct lie, and you know it is—and you know it is. I wouldn't use the word otherwise. Because the European structures and the European frameworks…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
I was reading today's The Times earlier to discover that the European Surfing Federation is moving their headquarters from Cornwall to France. In many ways, it sums up the disaster of Brexit, doesn't it? It's a decision that's driven by business, by people…
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Topical Questions
I'm grateful for the question this afternoon. I think it's important that we do debate and discuss these things. It's 45 years, Deputy Presiding Officer, since I first made my way down on the train from Rhymney to watch Wales taking on France in January 1980…
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Topical Questions
I’m grateful to Julie Morgan for raising these matters and to you, Minister, for your response. Higher education is fundamentally important to our wider economy, of course, and the contribution of higher education institutions is important to all of us…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I'm grateful to the Cabinet Secretary for that response. I think many of us, having watched the Chancellor speaking this morning on growth, will have noticed her focus on the south-east of England, and that’s likely to lead to more and not less equality…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
4. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the future of the Barnett formula? OQ62221
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Papers to note
It would be good to be able to raise those matters.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
This April?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
But it's a matter for the Welsh Government, isn't it? I accept that officials do what they can within the parameters set for them, and it's not a criticism of officials. But it's a criticism of the Welsh Government that you can't on the one hand say that you…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
I disagree with that analysis: it’s not delivering access for my constituents, and it’s not delivering access for the 1 million of us who live in the south Wales Valleys. That’s simply not happening. The south Wales Valleys were excluded from the plans of the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
This is what I really don’t understand about the Welsh Government’s approach on this, and the previous Minister didn’t convince me either, as it happens. We’ve got this crisis—the Minister doesn’t recognise it, but I think there’s a crisis in the arts and…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
But you see, this is why—. Sorry.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
I’m interested you say that, because the plans we saw as a committee last year on this matter showed that this distributed model has no centres in the Valleys of south Wales. So, how is that increasing access to working-class communities?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Okay, tell me how this £1 million is going to be used to deliver access.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
In terms of where we're going now, you've got £1 million allocated to take forward actions and priorities in culture, and to support the delivery of the national contemporary art gallery. I would question whether those priorities are sensible, to be blunt…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
But that’s just my point, you see. When we did have higher levels of funding under the last Labour Government—I was lucky enough to be a Member here at the time—even then, the proportion of spend, of Welsh Government spend on arts and culture, was lower than…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
The Irish have—. Brexit has destroyed Wales. I accept that.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Okay—the wrongs of the past. Okay. Do you know what I find really disappointing, more than anything else? We were in Dublin as a committee in September, wasn’t it, and we had a meeting with the arts council in Dublin, and they were talking about the way in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
In revenue funding in the next budget.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Yes. But is a 3.6 per cent increase really sufficient in the face of where we've been, of what you've heard. I haven't heard anyone else in the arts and culture field not describe this situation as a crisis, and we've seen protests on the steps of this…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
The Blackwood Miners' was only under threat, if you listen to Caerphilly County Borough Council, because of the policies of the Welsh Government, so I think we need to recognise that as well. You've said there is no crisis, and that's fine, but we're looking…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
I'm asking for your view.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
I'm interested by that. You dismiss the view of the arts council. So, why are the arts council saying that, do you think?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Do you agree with the arts council that there’s a crisis facing the culture sector?
