Concise Minutes - Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 2 - Senedd

Meeting date: Thursday, 16 November 2017

Meeting time: Times Not Specified
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/4379

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Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Joyce Watson AM (In place of Hannah Blythyn AM) Mick Antoniw AM (In place of Dawn Bowden AM) Suzy Davies AM Siân Gwenllian AM Neil Hamilton AM Lee Waters AM
Witnesses:
Committee Staff:	Steve George (Clerk) Adam Vaughan (Second Clerk) Lowri Harries (Deputy Clerk) Sian Hughes (Researcher) Robin Wilkinson (Researcher) Manon Huws (Legal Adviser)

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1 Motion under Standing Order 17.22 to elect temporary Chair

1.1 Sian Gwenllian AM was appointed as temporary Chair for the meeting, and for the following meeting on 22 November.

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2 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

2.1 Apologies were received from Bethan Jenkins, Dawn Bowden, Neil Hamilton, Jeremy Miles and Hannah Blythyn. Joyce Watson and Mick Antoniw attended as substitutes.

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3 Budget Scrutiny: Cabinet Secretary for Education

3.1 The Cabinet Secretary responded to questions from Members of the Committee.

3.2 The Cabinet Secretary agreed to provide a breakdown, by a local authority area, of the numbers of schools (and pupils) that have participated in the Creative Learning through the Arts programme.

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4 Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport

4.1 The Minister responded to questions from Members of the Committee.

4.2 The Minister agreed to:

Ø Provide a note on how the £100,000 designated for the implementation of the recommendations of the local museums services review will be distributed;

Ø Share the skills partnership agreement made with ‘English Heritage, Historic Scotland and the construction body for the UK’;

Ø Provide a note on whether there are any existing hyper local news businesses currently being funded through Business Wales, how that funding is allocated, the amount of funding and what it is being used for.

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5 Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning

5.1 The Minister responded to questions from Members of the Committee.

5.2 The Minister agreed to provide a breakdown of the proposed £3.9 million for the Welsh Language budget expenditure line (BEL).

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6 Paper(s) to note

6.1 Committee Members noted the papers.

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6.1 Non-public Funding of the Arts: Additional Evidence

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6.2 The Independent Review of Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales: Additional Evidence

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7 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:

7.1 The motion was agreed.

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8 Private debrief

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9 Funding for and access to music education: Consideration of schools survey

9.1 Committee Members agreed considered and agreed the survey.

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