Agenda - Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 2, Senedd

Meeting date: 14 May 2025

Meeting time: 09.15
For further information contact:

Manon George

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddCulture@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Pre-meeting registration

09:15 - 09:30

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

09:30                                                                                                               

 

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2       Welsh Government's International Strategy - Oral evidence - Panel 3

09:30 - 10:30                                                                             (Pages 1 - 15)

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson – Sport Wales

Helen Antoniazzi – Football Association of Wales

Abi Tierney – Welsh Rugby Union

Attached Documents:
Research brief

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Break

10:30 - 10:40

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3       Welsh Government's International Strategy - Oral evidence - Panel 4

10:40 - 11:40                                                                                                  

Derek Walker – Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Najma Hashi – Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Sarah Rees - Wales Overseas Agencies Group

 

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4       Papers to note

11:40                                                                                                               

 

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4.1   Funding for sports

                                                                                                 (Pages 16 - 19)

Attached Documents:
Correspondence from the Chair of Wales Rugby League: Raising concerns about the inequitable distribution of sports funding in Wales – 4 March 2025

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4.2   BBC Sounds to end

                                                                                                 (Pages 20 - 24)

Attached Documents:
Correspondence from Andy Bell: Raising concerns about the BBC's decision to end the BBC Sounds service for users outside the UK – 7 March 2025

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4.3   Proposed closures at Cardiff University

                                                                                                 (Pages 25 - 26)

Attached Documents:
Copy letter from the Chair of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages: Responding to the request for an impact assessment of the proposed closures at Cardiff University - 1 May 2025

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4.4   Issues facing the higher education sector

                                                                                                 (Pages 27 - 28)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee: Inviting a Member of the Committee to join an evidence session with Cardiff University on 12 June 2025 – 8 May 2025

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting.

11:40                                                                                                               

 

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6       Welsh Government's International Strategy - Consideration of the evidence received

11:40 - 12:00                                                                                                  

 

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