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My Lords, as a former chief adviser to the previous First Minister, I encourage Ministers to take a positive attitude towards the new Government in Wales, even if it is not of the colour I would have wanted, and to continue those talks. While endorsing everything the Minister has said about the efforts made for greater rail investment under this Labour Government following the 2024 general election, I am unclear just what the new First Minister of Wales is asking for in relation to the M4 relief road. When interviewed recently at this year’s Eisteddfod, he said, “Something must be done”, but I was not sure whether he was actually asking for the M4 relief road to be built. Through the Prime Minister, will the Minister find out from the First Minister of Wales what exactly he means by that?
My Lords, as a former chief adviser to the previous First Minister, I encourage Ministers to take a positive attitude towards the new Government in Wales, even if it is not of the colour I would have wanted, and to continue those talks. While endorsing everything the Minister has said about the efforts made for greater rail investment under this Labour Government following the 2024 general election, I am unclear just what the new First Minister of Wales is asking for in relation to the M4 relief road. When interviewed recently at this year’s Eisteddfod, he said, “Something must be done”, but I was not sure whether he was actually asking for the M4 relief road to be built. Through the Prime Minister, will the Minister find out from the First Minister of Wales what exactly he means by that?
I agree with my noble friend that we have cause to meet requests from the Welsh Government—we need to receive them properly, understand them and have clarity about what they want. We will continue to work constructively with this Welsh Government, as we worked constructively with the previous Welsh Government, but we need to
understand what exactly they wish to see happen, rather than just saying, as my noble friend pointed out, that something needs to be done.
What recent discussions he has had with the First Minister of Wales on the adequacy of the operation of the devolution settlement.
What recent discussions he has had with the First Minister of Wales on the adequacy of the operation of the devolution settlement.
My discussions with the First Minister and his ministerial team are focused on how our respective Governments can use the powers at our disposal to deliver jobs and economic growth for Wales.
Hijacking pots of money for Wales in the UK Government Departments that have not operated in Wales for 20 years undermines the devolution settlement and, by extension, the Union, but just as damaging is the bureaucratic delay caused by the uselessness of UK Ministers. Why have Welsh councils still not had a response on community fund renewal projects that are supposed to be completed by March 2022? If the Secretary of State and his ministerial colleagues cannot do the business, they should get off the pot.
Hijacking pots of money for Wales in the UK Government Departments that have not operated in Wales for 20 years undermines the devolution settlement and, by extension, the Union, but just as damaging is the bureaucratic delay caused by the uselessness of UK Ministers. Why have Welsh councils still not had a response on community fund renewal projects that are supposed to be completed by March 2022? If the Secretary of State and his ministerial colleagues cannot do the business, they should get off the pot.
In the last 18 months or more, I have spoken to numerous individuals, charities, churches, universities, the private and public sectors, businesses, investors—you name them, we have spoken to them. Not a single one has raised the concerns that the hon. Gentleman raises this morning. They are committed to the economic recovery plans that we are talking about, and, as I said in answer to a previous question, if all these question sessions do is relegate these exchanges to some kind of cheap political point scoring, we will not make the progress that he seeks.
Motion that this House has considered Welsh affairs. Agreed to on question.
Motion that this House has considered Welsh affairs. Agreed to on question.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the gross value-added was for the nine sub-sectors of the creative industries for each year since 2010 in each of the devolved administrations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the gross value-added was for the nine sub-sectors of the creative industries for each year since 2010 in each of the devolved administrations.
The Gross Value Added (GVA) for each of the sub-sectors in the Creative Industries for the devolved administrations is available from 2010 to 2015 at https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossvalueaddedgva/adhocs/006815constrainedregionalgrossvalueaddedgvaestimatesfordepartmentforculturemediaandsportdcmscreativeindustriessubsectors, and in the tables below. Data for 2016 are due to be published in February 2018.
Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Wales
Unit: £m
Years: 2010 - 2015
Coverage: UK
Sub-sector | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Advertising and marketing | 30.1 | 72.2 | 48.5 | 46.3 | 39.5 | 32.4 |
Architecture | 39.0 | 59.1 | 47.4 | 53.2 | 71.2 | 54.9 |
Crafts | 2.5 | 5.5 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 4.6 |
Design and designer fashion | 103.7 | 96.6 | 91.8 | 127.9 | 99.3 | 97.3 |
Film, TV, video, radio and photography | -30.2 | 46.4 | 46.7 | 88.7 | 35.4 | 108.9 |
IT, software and computer services | 316.7 | 345.5 | 391.8 | 257.0 | 362.9 | 351.4 |
Publishing | 103.0 | 59.8 | 69.0 | 79.2 | 100.7 | 35.7 |
Museums, galleries and libraries | 14.9 | 14.6 | 15.5 | 17.3 | 24.5 | 25.0 |
Music, performing and visual arts | 128.8 | 114.5 | 159.2 | 91.0 | 99.3 | 115.4 |
Creative Industries | 708.4 | 814.2 | 873.8 | 763.3 | 835.9 | 825.4 |
Notes
1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).
Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Scotland
Unit: £m
Years: 2010 - 2015
Coverage: UK
Sub-sector | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Advertising and marketing | 167.7 | 209.7 | 227.1 | 270.3 | 183.1 | 224.0 |
Architecture | 180.7 | 206.0 | 169.6 | 188.8 | 211.7 | 216.7 |
Crafts | 11.3 | 14.5 | 11.5 | 8.3 | 20.4 | 15.2 |
Design and designer fashion | 55.8 | 73.1 | 118.6 | 89.5 | 99.6 | 107.6 |
Film, TV, video, radio and photography | 207.3 | 305.4 | 233.4 | 248.8 | 262.1 | 273.6 |
IT, software and computer services | 1.237.3 | 1,217.7 | 1,283.1 | 1,436.6 | 1,683.1 | 1,899.3 |
Publishing | 461.0 | 330.6 | 372.3 | 286.7 | 335.8 | 324.8 |
Museums, galleries and libraries | 132.0 | 158.1 | 176.4 | 256.5 | 200.0 | 79.5 |
Music, performing and visual arts | 281.6 | 361.3 | 251.9 | 274.1 | 176.6 | 256.1 |
Creative Industries | 2,734.7 | 2,876.5 | 2,843.8 | 3,059.6 | 3,172.2 | 3,396.9 |
Notes
1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).
Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Northern Ireland
Unit: £m
Years: 2010 - 2015
Coverage: UK
Sub-sector | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Advertising and marketing | 36.3 | 51.3 | 62.0 | 65.9 | 52.0 | 90.2 |
Architecture | 67.0 | 95.6 | 67.3 | 74.2 | 73.5 | 62.4 |
Crafts | 1.1 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 5.4 | 3.8 |
Design and designer fashion | 38.0 | 27.1 | 38.0 | 38.3 | 22.3 | 22.7 |
Film, TV, video, radio and photography | 53.4 | 32.0 | 40.5 | 74.8 | 93.2 | 85.5 |
IT, software and computer services | 521.0 | 469.8 | 507.6 | 478.0 | 554.3 | 549.5 |
Publishing | 157.6 | 121.8 | 106.0 | 85.3 | 93.8 | 77.8 |
Museums, galleries and libraries | 12.9 | 20.2 | 24.1 | 17.4 | 13.8 | 14.9 |
Music, performing and visual arts | 68.1 | 64.0 | 93.6 | 119.9 | 75.9 | 63.3 |
Creative Industries | 955.4 | 885.3 | 941.0 | 956.2 | 984.1 | 970.0 |
Notes
1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any of the devolved administrations have refused to consent to the provisions dealing with public sector exit payments contained within the Enterprise Bill.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any of the devolved administrations have refused to consent to the provisions dealing with public sector exit payments contained within the Enterprise Bill.
The public sector exit payment cap will come into effect at a date after the Enterprise Bill has received Royal Assent. The Enterprise Bill is currently expected to receive Royal Assent by May 2016. A set of secondary regulations which will give effect to the public sector exit payment cap are currently expected to come into force during autumn 2016.
In the response to the consultation the Government stated that ‘the government would request Legislative Consent Motions from the Devolved Administrations where appropriate, however it would be for the Devolved Administrations to decide the approach they wish to take to this measure.’
On 7 December 2015 the Northern Ireland Assembly declined to agree a Legislative Consent Motion. Subsequently, no provisions relating to Northern Ireland are included in the clauses relating to exit payments.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department will agree to Legislative Consent Motions to the devolved government on the issue of public sector exit payments.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department will agree to Legislative Consent Motions to the devolved government on the issue of public sector exit payments.
The public sector exit payment cap will come into effect at a date after the Enterprise Bill has received Royal Assent. The Enterprise Bill is currently expected to receive Royal Assent by May 2016. A set of secondary regulations which will give effect to the public sector exit payment cap are currently expected to come into force during autumn 2016.
In the response to the consultation the Government stated that ‘the government would request Legislative Consent Motions from the Devolved Administrations where appropriate, however it would be for the Devolved Administrations to decide the approach they wish to take to this measure.’
On 7 December 2015 the Northern Ireland Assembly declined to agree a Legislative Consent Motion. Subsequently, no provisions relating to Northern Ireland are included in the clauses relating to exit payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the devolved administrations on the distribution and use of funds raised by the proposed Apprenticeship Levy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the devolved administrations on the distribution and use of funds raised by the proposed Apprenticeship Levy.
Skills policy is a devolved area so the devolved administrations will continue to have control over how to support businesses through training and apprenticeships.
We are working closely with the Welsh Government and other devolved administrations to ensure they get their fair share of the levy and can work out how best to use it to complement their own apprenticeships and skills policies.
We will engage with skills ministers in the devolved administrations, including Julie James AC/AM, to do all we can to make the levy work for employers and would-be apprentices across the UK.
What assessment he has made of the potential effect of full fiscal autonomy for Scotland on the level of tax receipts in Scotland.
What assessment he has made of the potential effect of full fiscal autonomy for Scotland on the level of tax receipts in Scotland.
In March, Her Majesty’s Treasury published an analysis that estimated that funding available to Scotland under full fiscal autonomy would be £7.7 billion lower in 2015-16 compared with the current arrangements. The assessment made by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that deficit reaching £9.7 billion in 2019-20.
The Secretary of State and his Tory friends have an ideological fixation with austerity, but is he surprised that the nationalist ideology of a self-identifying left-wing party such as the Scottish National party leads it to advocate full fiscal autonomy, which would lead not just to austerity but to “austerity-max”?
The Secretary of State and his Tory friends have an ideological fixation with austerity, but is he surprised that the nationalist ideology of a self-identifying left-wing party such as the Scottish National party leads it to advocate full fiscal autonomy, which would lead not just to austerity but to “austerity-max”?
I agree with part of the hon. Gentleman’s analysis, but he will be aware that it is now not clear what the SNP is asking for. I welcome the fact that it will be able to table amendments in relation to full fiscal autonomy during the Committee stage of the Scotland Bill. My suspicion, however, is that it is asking for something it does not really want, and that it will complain when it does not get it.
I congratulate the Secretary of State and his hon. Friend the Minister—llongyfarchiadau, as we say in Wales. When the Prime Minister promised a respect agenda, did he mean trying to block Welsh Assembly legislation, unilaterally abolishing wage protection for agricultural workers in Wales and tearing up a cross-border GCSE exam system without consultation? If that is the case, can he even spell the word respect? It is R. E. S. P. E. C. T., by the way.
I congratulate the Secretary of State and his hon. Friend the Minister—llongyfarchiadau, as we say in Wales. When the Prime Minister promised a respect agenda, did he mean trying to block Welsh Assembly legislation, unilaterally abolishing wage protection for agricultural workers in Wales and tearing up a cross-border GCSE exam system without consultation? If that is the case, can he even spell the word respect? It is R. E. S. P. E. C. T., by the way.
As we say in Wales, diolch am y llongyfarchiadau. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that this Government are fully committed to the respect agenda. We are working closely with the Welsh Government and I am very pleased with the relationship I am cultivating with Carwyn Jones, the First Minister.
I am committed to working with the Welsh Government to deliver economic growth in Wales. I do not intend that political differences should stand in the way of such co-operative working in the interests of Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what timetable has been set for the referendum on further law-making powers for the National Assembly for Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what timetable has been set for the referendum on further law-making powers for the National Assembly for Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the devolved institutions in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. (Failed OPQ).
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the devolved institutions in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. (Failed OPQ).
Statement on what plans the Government has to publish a revised edition of the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK Government and the devolved administrations. - Includes fact that publishing today as Cm 5240 a revised edition of the Memorandum of Understanding, copies in Library.
Statement on what plans the Government has to publish a revised edition of the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK Government and the devolved administrations. - Includes fact that publishing today as Cm 5240 a revised edition of the Memorandum of Understanding, copies in Library.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what consultations she has had with the devolved administrations about her review of student finance; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what consultations she has had with the devolved administrations about her review of student finance; and if she will make a statement.