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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you for that response. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case in terms of how it’s applied, because I’ve been helping constituents who live at Llys Tylcha Fawr in Tonyrefail, who’ve been affected by a letting policy that opens up the flats to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
2. How does the Welsh Government ensure that communities of elderly or vulnerable people feel safe living on social housing estates which were historically reserved for the purpose of old-age accommodation, but which are now open to anyone without vetting for…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for the meeting on 29 January 2025
Content, Chair.
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Papers to note
Thank you. If I could just note the correspondence under item 6.4 in terms of the closure of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama junior department. I think there are some points there, given that we have taken an interest in the past as a committee, I…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
We've received evidence from the charity Music Venue Trust saying that 'The cut in business rate relief from 75% to 40% will cause irreversible damage and, given the lack of wider funding for grassroots music venues (GMVs), will only add to the crisis already…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thank you. But you'll be aware as well of recent closures, such as The Moon in Cardiff and so on, and we've received quite stark warnings from the Music Venue Trust about the implications for the future. Have you made an assessment of the impact the cut in…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Can we follow up with you in terms of the implications of that on the publishing sector and so on? I don't think we have time to go into that issue. If I can move on to another matter in terms of live music in particular. We know that the 40 per cent rates…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
A quick-fire question: what allocation has been made for the Books Council of Wales for 2025-26?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Brilliant, thank you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
If I may, Chair, just on that, you obviously have the detail that is not usually afforded to us. In terms of Amgueddfa Cymru, the national library, obviously they have to produce annual reports, and so on, which are scrutinised, but because of the way Cadw is…
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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.
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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 sorry, but your evidence says that greater cross-sector prioritisation is needed. Who is going to drive that? What's the strategy to achieve 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
If I may, your own evidence says: 'Sport can be a very effective preventative health tool, but greater cross-sector prioritisation is needed to create the long-term sustainable shifts in participation.'
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Yes, if I can on that. I think that there's no doubt from this committee that we've heard the Government's aspiration in terms of sport being used as an effective preventative health tool. You've put it in your paper for us today. It's the fourth year in a…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
It's quite specific. You're saying there's no crisis. Everyone who works in the sector says there's a crisis. We as a committee have taken evidence from countless sources, we've looked at international comparisons, we see that there's chronic underfunding…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
On what evidence?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
To be fair, the Arts Council of Wales are a key body for the Welsh Government—a strategic delivery body. They don't throw around these kinds of comments by chance. They listen to the sector, they engage. They're telling you, as the Minister, that there's a…
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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 asking are you worried about it, that you don’t know.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Is this of concern to you, the fact that we don’t know, really, yet—you say the devil is in the detail—what the implications will be, because, on one hand, there’s an increase, but we don’t know how much of an increase it is?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thank you. So, you’ve had clarification. So, in terms of that definition of ‘public sector’, does that include Amgueddfa Cymru, the National Library of Wales and so on? I would think, in terms of the Arts Council of Wales, obviously that would not be…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Diolch. I wonder if you could provide us with the latest position in terms of discussions with Welsh Government sponsored bodies about whether the Welsh Government will be able to cover the increase in terms of national insurance contribution costs for staff…
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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 just want to understand why, if that's the case and there's more funding than ever before, the decision was taken not to restore to even the 2023-24 levels for these sectors.
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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 were able to give them more then.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thank you. If you consider there was a Conservative Government for 2023-24, and if you look at the budget for the next financial year, revenue funding remains 5 per cent lower than it was in 2023-24 for the Arts Council of Wales; 2 per cent lower for…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you. If I may, Chair, I think it would be of great interest to us as a committee to understand that and have more information as that goes forward.
