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30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
This is the seventh evidence session for the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill. We’ve got some witnesses online, and we’ve got a witness in the room as well. I’d like to ask them to introduce themselves for the record. If we start in…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Welcome back. We have reset the room and we are now here for the next session.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you for making the time to come and speak to us today. It is appreciated. Thank you very much. We'll take a short break now to reset the room for our next set of witnesses. There will be a transcript available for you to be able to check for accuracy…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you very much. That brings us to time today—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
And you'd capture that information that you would need to be able to report that.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, thank you for that. As agents, effectively, or as people who represent owners and operators—. There is provision, I think, within the Bill, for you to act as an agent and pay the levy, if you're collecting the money, and pay it on their behalf. Could…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Yes, Carl.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, thank you. Just with regards to the subordinate legislation and the legislation, how it should be evaluated going forward, you've talked a little bit earlier about evaluating guidance and making it as good as it can be, if we're going to bring it in…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Sorry?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
I'm just conscious of time, Mike, and I'd just like to go on to—.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Of course. There we are. Thank you. I'll bring Mike Hedges in now for the last few questions.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Unless you're selling them alcohol.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, there wouldn't be an administrative burden, then, of exempting children?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
One thing the Cabinet Secretary did say, when we were asking about minimum age and the point about charging for children as opposed to exempting them, was that it would put a burden on you or your clients to check ages of children in your accommodations. Is…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Other platforms could potentially have a—?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Eighteen on your platform, okay. But others you know of differentiate.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, on your platform, is it 16 or is it 18 or—?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Eighteen, okay.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Is that 16, then?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Yes, Alistair would like to say something.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
There we are. I'll bring Rhianon in on this now, so if we could unmute Rhianon. There we are. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
But I'm just trying to understand your logic in that sense. Sorry.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
That's just for me to understand your thinking behind that. I don't necessarily agree, but—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
But if the whole local authority had registered all those providers within their local authority, they'd have the information that they would need for that local authority.