, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
You also have declining funding, so something's got to give at some point, doesn't it?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
I just struggle, from a commonsense point of view, to understand that there are no savings across those organisations. Because I remember an inquiry by this committee eight years ago, when Ken Skates, as Cabinet Secretary, looked for back-office functions…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
The other example you gave is procurement capacity.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
—but I find it hard to believe that CAD, for example, is not used across the public sector.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
I'm sure that some of these are specific to you—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Okay. Have you engaged with the Centre for Digital Public Services, for example?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
There's an additional £10,000 for cyber security, or is that within the—?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Just on that theme, you gave us an example earlier that you're spending £110,000 a year on computers. Is there not room for collaboration there?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Maybe, Chair, that's something we could think about in terms of follow-up action. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Sure, but I'm also thinking not just of the impact on you, I'm thinking of the impact on the speed of getting through planning applications for developers.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
And it's the applicants who are saying 'no', is it, or NRW?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Could I just follow that up? In your evidence, you mentioned that you're struggling to meet the demand for windfarm developments and other renewables, because you're not able to give Natural Resources Wales the information they need as quickly as they do it…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Being alert is the important thing. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Well, every four years is not a spot check.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Would that include spot checks?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
So, what would be the oversight process for that?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Yes, but the principle of having oversight to make sure those cultures and procedures are followed through—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Well, logically, what you just said to me was that—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
And are you considering an oversight board, then, for the rest of the sector?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. Very good. It's good to see that there's balance. Just in terms of the learning from that whole WRU experience for the rest of the sector, how have you sought to apply those lessons to the organisations that you fund?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
And she's the only one who's not a dame.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. That's active, is it?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
On the Rafferty oversight board, do you have any sense of how often that's been used, of cases referred to it?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Okay. And just to close, I'm going to pivot onto a different subject, which is just a progress report on the way the WRU are getting on in implementing the recommendations made to it, and if you have a view on how they're doing with that.
