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30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you. Rhianon, back to you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Rhianon, if I may, just something for Mathew. I think Mathew wants to come in as well. Being in the charity sector, maybe you'll be able to comment, maybe not. What about not-for-profit charities? I'm thinking possibly churches, abbeys, that sort of…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you, Mike. I'll bring Rhianon in now, please.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you. I'll—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Okay. Do either of you want to come in on that, or is it—? I think I'm seeing agreement there more than—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Sam, yes.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
David, yes. Lovely, thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Any comments? Llŷr.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you for that. Mike, did you have any further questions?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Okay. David, anything to add? You were nodding away, so I'm assuming you were in agreement there.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thanks for that. Mathew or David—Mathew, did you want to come in?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
I see nods on the screen there. Andrew, did you want to come in?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Llŷr, do you want to go first?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Who'd like to go first?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you for that. I'll bring Mike Hedges in now with a series of questions. Diolch, Mike.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Mathew, do you want to come in on—?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Would the shift to day-trippers, as opposed to people staying overnight—? The impact would probably be felt, if that was the case, more by you that by the pub industry, because pubs would still have a revenue income from those day-trippers as opposed to…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you for that. I suppose, David, then, with bed and breakfasts, it would have a—. What would be the impact on your association and your members? If we could unmute David, please. There we are.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Diolch, Llŷr. A question now to—. I'll probably come to Andrew first with this one, just because of the nature of who you represent. How do you think the implementation of the visitor levy would impact on visitors staying overnight in Wales, as opposed to…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you for that. On that aspect of that sort of educational type of accommodation, I don't know if anybody else just wants to come in on that, or I'll move on to the next question. The next question that I have is more towards Llŷr and it's touching on…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you. I'm going to come to Mathew with another question, but you're welcome to comment on that last one as well. We've heard from other witnesses about the educational, not-for-profit and social enterprise organisations, but particularly the educational…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Of course, we'll tease some of that out. Thank you. Andrew.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
I'll open it up to anyone else who wants to add anything to that. What I'd ask is if you're going to say the same thing, don't say it just to agree. But if there are extra things that you'd like to add, then certainly we would be interested in hearing that…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Welcome, and thank you for making the time to come and speak to us today. We’ve got about an hour, and, as I said, brevity is the order of the day, if we can, to get through as much of your evidence as possible. I’ll start with David, if I may. I just wanted…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Croeso. And on my screen, if we can go to David next, please.