4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thanks for that.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Alun, was there anything else you wanted—? No. Happy? Okay. We'll go on to Mick.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
I think Heledd wants to come in on something.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you for that. I'm sure there'll be several different layers of this that we'll go into later. I'll go to Alun next.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you. Cabinet Secretary, was there anything—
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Okay. That's fine. Gareth, did you want to come in?
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Ann. Duncan, did you want to come in?
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you. Before we go to the other Cabinet Secretary, I'll go to Heledd.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Yes, please.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
A warm welcome to you all. So, we'll go straight to questions, if that's okay. Could I ask both Cabinet Secretaries that we have here if they have any general thoughts that they would like to give us on the Arfor programme—any successes, challenges that they…
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thanks, Elin. And, Iddon, could you introduce yourself?
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much. And Elin.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you so much. Ann.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much. I'll go from left to right, so I'll go to Duncan first of all.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much. And, Rebecca, for the record.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Arfor: Ministerial evidence session
So, we'll move straight on to item 2. We're looking at Arfor today, and we have the ministerial evidence session. I'll ask our witnesses to introduce themselves for the record, and I'll go to Mark first.
4 March 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee. Do any Members have any declarations of interest to make? I don't see that anyone does.
4 March 2026 , Plenary
Short Debate: How can Wales protect, enhance, and enshrine our world-leading cultural organisations for the enrichment of the people of Wales and beyond?
Minister, thank you so much. I'm intervening, as Chair of the committee, just to say that those figures do very much add up, but I as an individual welcome what you are saying. These are all good-news stories. The argument, I suppose, we would be making is…
4 March 2026 , Plenary
Short Debate: How can Wales protect, enhance, and enshrine our world-leading cultural organisations for the enrichment of the people of Wales and beyond?
Will you take an intervention?
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The recent railway funding announcement that you just referred to, First Minister, from Westminster did look, at first glance, like good news, until we realised that it represented no new money. It was smoke and mirrors instead—a rehash of projects already…
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that response.
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. Will the First Minister make a statement on rail funding in South Wales East? OQ63926
26 February 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting
So, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), the committee is invited to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of our meeting today. Are you content? Okay. We'll wait to hear that we're in private session.
