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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Employment
Thank you for taking an intervention. At a recent Finance Committee, both the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Office for Budget Responsibility acknowledged that the recent national insurance increase for employers is both going to supress wages and…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Employment
Will you take an intervention on that point?
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Debate on the Finance Committee Report, 'Financial Transactions Capital'
I'm grateful for the opportunity to speak on this report briefly this afternoon. I wasn't a member of the committee whilst the hard work on this was done. My colleague Peter Fox was our Conservative member on there. I'm not saying that the reason he left that…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you again, Cabinet Secretary. Clearly, we’re going to be disagreeing on these things, and it’s part of the reason why we’re on opposite sides of this Chamber. We would argue that people should be trusted to spend money in the way that they believe is…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you for the open response, Cabinet Secretary. Another notion that taxation could represent is the ability to trust people with spending their money in a way that they see best. I wonder what it is, if you could describe, that makes you think that people…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, as the person holding the levers around taxation here in Wales, do you think we’ll ever see people pay less tax under a Welsh Labour Government?
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Diolch yn fawr, Cabinet Secretary. You'll be aware that Global are closing their studio in Wrexham, including the Capital Cymru station, which will mean 12 jobs are lost at the site. Global, of course, will have their commercial reasons for this decision, but…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
1. What is the Cabinet Secretary doing to support Welsh-language media? OQ62201
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay, that’s helpful to understand as well. Thank you very much. I think that’s it from my side, Chair.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Do you put a cost, a future cost, to dealing with greenhouse gas emissions? Is that something, as part of your work, that you would usually carry out?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thanks. I might take the liberty of a few more minutes, Chair.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Yes, I get that. I just want to be really clear on that, then, because you've given a direct correlation between the two. But I thought the report shows that the percentage savings in greenhouse gas emissions are far larger than the percentage of economic…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thanks for that.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair. I'm just going to move on to touch on the impact of the visitor levy on greenhouse gas emissions. You say in the report that the input-output table for Wales benefited from an environmental module that allows an appreciation of the greenhouse…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you for that. I'm just going—. Sorry.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair. Just to follow up on that particular point, I guess a more realistic outcome would be a combination of businesses absorbing the levy whilst others are passing it on, but I expect, to model the economic impact of that would be a challenge. Do…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
I could ask more, but I appreciate time is short. I might come back if there's time at the end.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Can I just have a quick follow-up? I appreciate those comments again, because trying to accurately estimate some of that must be difficult. But I wonder if you think there might be value in that piece of work being commissioned by the Welsh Government…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair, and thanks for the comments so far. I'm just interested to understand whether—. It may not have been within your remit of work, but how much consideration has been given to the cumulative impact of other types of recent legislation and policy…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Time's going. Do you have any research to suggest the impact that might have on larger families in particular? We know many parts of Wales are very attractive to families coming on their summer holidays, wherever it might be. Do we know the impact of children…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay. Can I just ask one more question?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay. So, can I just understand—? So, your response is that you don't think Welsh Government should consider a minimum age and it should be down to the local areas to manage it themselves.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. I just want to move on, then, to some of the information from the case studies. I was reading through those case studies myself and noticed in particular that many of them exclude children from being included within a tourism tax, and I…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thanks. I'm not sure, Chair, if Linda wanted to respond to this point as well.
