Plaid Cymru

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4,010 speeches and questions

30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Emma, did you want to come in on that? Yes.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Rhianon, did you want to come in?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Yes, certainly, Sam.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
We're getting a consensus of opinion from people.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
I see. Right. Okay. I understand the complication at a national level, if you like, rather than at an individual park level. Right. Okay. Thank you. That's great. I'll bring Mike in at this point. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
What's your understanding—? You're saying it's complicated. Why is it complicated? It's the number of people times the—. So, I'm just interested in—. You're saying that it is complicated.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
But there's a drop-down to one, two, three—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Do you capture how many adults and how many children on your system at the moment?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
No, it's good to have that clarification. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
But they would fall within the remit of this legislation, in that case. Thank you for that clarification.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
And would they pay for those?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
And then, I'm just thinking out loud, with the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Royal Welsh Show and the Urdd Eisteddfod, they pop up for a week a year in different parts of the country. Would there be a similar sort of situation there?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
So, that would be—. In a registration process, they would need to be registered.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
That's the one, yes.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Based on pop-up sites that you're aware of, and you have some—. You talked about 200-and-something registered sites that don't operate all year round, but are there—? How does that work with regard to the planning and the regulation that you've already got?…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
What sort of information is collected at that level at the moment?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Just on that, it would be piecemeal then, though, wouldn't it, rather than a national register?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Of course. Thank you very much for that. I'll hand over to Sam Rowlands.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
So, that day-tripper or overnight-stay aspect, do you have a handle on that at all, or is it just that it doesn't—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Any thoughts on that particular aspect, William, or just—?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
So, has that shifted from overnight to day-trippers? Is that where that's gone? Are people still coming, but they're not staying, or are they just not coming at all, or don't you know?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Thanks, Rhianon. So, you've mentioned in your evidence that the implementation of the levy would compound some of the effects of existing Government policies already impacting the tourist sector. Could you elaborate a little bit on that, and maybe give us a…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
That's a very interesting point. I'll bring Rhianon in. I think she wants to come in on this point.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Yes, and I've got Rhianon who wants to come in as well, but, Sam, you go first.