28 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
—the Deputy Minister will also encourage me in my efforts to create links between Tredegar and Tredegar. Thank you.
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
I'm grateful to the Chair of the committee for introducing this report, and also grateful to the secretariat who have supported the committee in its work. Currently, international relations are the responsibility of the First Minister, and it's always very…
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I'm grateful to the Minister for that reply, and grateful also for the way in which she brought all sides of the Chamber together yesterday for a debate on the financial framework. At its heart, of course, Barnett remains a population-based formula, and that…
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
12. What discussions has the Minister had with the UK Government regarding the future of the Barnett Formula? OQ60747
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I'm grateful to you, Presiding Officer, and Minister, for keeping me on my toes this afternoon.
28 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with practitioners (5)
Thank you very much.
28 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with practitioners (5)
Okay, thank you for that. You've all responded to my question by talking about grants and the funding available by different Governments, and I accept those points. But the relationship with the European Union is wider than that, and there is an agreement…
28 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with practitioners (5)
Thank you. And thank you very much to all of you for your evidence this morning. The evidence is quite powerful, isn't it, and is consistent with the evidence that we've heard already today. So, I want to move on, because it looks as if we're in a real…
28 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with practitioners (4)
Good God. We're very grateful to you for that evidence. It's really very powerful.
28 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with practitioners (4)
That really is quite extraordinary, actually—that is really quite extraordinary evidence.
28 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with practitioners (4)
I very much agree with the final point, Bill, about rejoining the EU, but it's going to take a few years, I think. So, what do we do in the meantime? Because it's quite clear that what's been created is an almighty mess and no witness this morning—. In the…
28 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: evidence session with trade unions (3)
I'm grateful to witnesses this morning. This is very powerful evidence and, for the last half an hour you've described, very graphically, some of the issues your members are facing—the people you represent—and have been dealing with. And it all seems, from…
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate: Budget flexibilities and the operation of the UK funding framework
I'm grateful to the Minister for introducing this debate. I'm also grateful to both Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservative for embracing this consensus. I think there has been a consensus at different times over the past few years on different elements of…
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Point of order.
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I did not say that. You withdraw that.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
But you are running the process, so it's a programme of activity that is consequential to the publication of the commission's report. You will now be looking towards developing a programme of activity.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I was sort of hoping you'd answer the question as well, rather than simply discuss it, but what is the timescale for that conversation to occur? You seem to be saying that the timescale isn't immediate.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
It would be useful if we kept in touch with the Counsel General on those Northern Irish matters, because I think they will have a significant impact on the operation of the inter-governmental relationships, if they are to mean anything. I'll wrap my remaining…
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Sam agrees with you.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay. Thank you.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
We have.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Could you—? I know time is against us at the moment, but it would be useful if you could give us an update on where you believe you are with consolidation, what you intend to do over the period of this Senedd and the preparatory work that you would seek to do…
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Yes, I think the issue and the frustration of this committee is when we're told by a Minister that there is an urgent requirement to put forward an LCM, and that is agreed, it goes forward and then, 10, 12 months later we've got our fourth LCM on the same…
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I’m grateful to you for that, but it’s not all in one direction, is it? Because the Welsh Government are also using UK law to override scrutiny in this place, and that’s something that is happening to a far greater extent in this Senedd than I remember…
