, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Correspondence from the Welsh Government: meetings of inter-ministerial groups. Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: the Interministerial Group for Trade, 20 January 2025. The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Thank you very much. Are we happy to note the Welsh Government response? Yes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Item 4, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered. The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025. The…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you. Do Members have anything to add? No. Are we happy to agree the reporting points? Yes. The Land Transaction Tax (Modification of Relief for Acquisitions Involving Multiple Dwellings) (Wales) Regulations 2025. These regulations amend the Land…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Yes, it's a good job we're here to help them. Do any Members want to add anything? No. The Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025. These regulations amend the Procurement Act 2023 and the Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Do Members have anything to add? No. Affirmative resolution instruments: the Social Care Wales (Specification of Social Care Workers) (Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, paper 3 in the draft report. These regulations amend the 2016 regulations…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025, draft report. These regulations amend various regulations that make provision…
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Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
On to item 2, instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3: the Civil Enforcement of Bus Lane and Moving Traffic Contraventions (County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil) Designation Order 2025. This Order enables Merthyr Tydfil County…
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Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da, good afternoon. Welcome to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. No apologies have been received today. Three other Members are present here, and Laura Anne Jones has joined us online. On behalf of the committee, I…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
On a general point regarding the things you've said about that, how many countries have stopped their tourism tax, and how many countries have done what you've done with real, live figures to see the effect it's having?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay. I would just end on this: Cornwall is a lot more expensive than Wales. It’s certainly a lot more expensive than the parts of north Wales I go to, and it's a lot, lot more expensive than Blackpool, and we are not seeing that movement of people to…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
And as Peredur would say, we're very similar to Catalonia.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
That didn't answer the last question, so I'll ask another one. Did they do the same modelling in Italy, Spain, France and Portugal, and did they get the same results that you are showing here?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
I was going to say it's all to do with the elasticity of demand in certain areas as well. But you've got this model; does it work? Because we know what's happened in Italy, we know what's happened in Spain, we know what's happened in France. If you run your…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Well, there's—
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you for that. I mean, if price were the driver, Blackpool would be the most successful resort in Britain.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
I'll mention two things that I know. I know hotel prices in Tenby are substantially higher than those in Llandudno. I also know that a budget hotel in Caernarfon, which I stayed in around about the time you're talking about, can be under £50 per room per…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. I mean, on tourism in general, I have a number of people not living in my constituency and living in a neighbouring one who hate the summer because of the amount of extra traffic that comes on the road and the traffic jams that are being…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. There's a lot more I'd like to talk about, but time is against us, so I'll just finish off with my last question. You mentioned in your conclusions that funds may be allocated via grant-making processes, allocated to bodies with defined…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Can I come back to Linda? You talked about how much it would be if people stayed a fortnight, but, two people staying a fortnight, it would be under £50, wouldn't it? And when you look at two people sharing a room in some of the budget hotels, they're lucky…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
I—
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
You're leading into my next question very rapidly there, because accommodation in Wales—and I travel around Wales reasonably frequently; in fact, I'm in Caernarfon next Friday and Saturday—and the price of accommodation varies substantially more than the…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I can't remember the last time I went on holiday when I didn't pay a tourism tax. That's been Spain, Italy, France, western Europe. It seems to be the norm. Perhaps we're taking a long time to catch up. Catalonia implements a tourism tax…
