QNR – in the Senedd at on 15 February 2017.
Steffan Lewis
Plaid Cymru
Mark Drakeford
Labour
Proposals in the white paper ‘Reforming Local Government: Resilient and Renewed’ put elected members at the heart of collaborative decision making. Elected members are then directly accountable to local people through the ballot box.
John Griffiths
Labour
Mark Drakeford
Labour
As the United Kingdom leaves the EU we will further align public sector procurement to priorities of job creation, simplification, community benefits and value for money for the public pound in Wales.
Llyr Gruffydd
Plaid Cymru
Mark Drakeford
Labour
The headquarters of the Welsh Revenue Authority will be at Treforest. The WRA will also have a presence in both Aberystwyth and Llandudno, to ensure staff have direct contact with stakeholders, taxpayers and their agents.
Russell George
Conservative
Mark Drakeford
Labour
The Majority of local authorities in Wales have adopted the model concerns and complaints policy for public services providers in Wales. The model was introduced in 2011 and was endorsed by Welsh Ministers. Local authorities nevertheless remain responsible for their own complaints handling process.
David Rowlands
UKIP
Mark Drakeford
Labour
I am currently consulting on proposals for reform as set out in the ‘Reforming Local Government’ white paper. These proposals were developed with local government to ensure they are fit for our shared purpose of resilient and renewed local government that is able to deliver better outcomes for the people of Wales.
David Melding
Conservative
Mark Drakeford
Labour
The local government white paper emphasises the importance of citizens being active partners in the delivery of services and of local authorities using a range of methods, including digital tools, to enable participation. This includes proposals around electronic voting as part of wider efforts to modernise elections.
Adam Price
Plaid Cymru
Mark Drakeford
Labour
I intend to explore, in an applied and practical way, whether changes to local taxation in Wales could make our systems fairer. The options include land value tax. It will be important to assess what information would be needed to operate any new tax effectively.
The cabinet is the group of twenty or so (and no more than 22) senior government ministers who are responsible for running the departments of state and deciding government policy.
It is chaired by the prime minister.
The cabinet is bound by collective responsibility, which means that all its members must abide by and defend the decisions it takes, despite any private doubts that they might have.
Cabinet ministers are appointed by the prime minister and chosen from MPs or peers of the governing party.
However, during periods of national emergency, or when no single party gains a large enough majority to govern alone, coalition governments have been formed with cabinets containing members from more than one political party.
War cabinets have sometimes been formed with a much smaller membership than the full cabinet.
From time to time the prime minister will reorganise the cabinet in order to bring in new members, or to move existing members around. This reorganisation is known as a cabinet re-shuffle.
The cabinet normally meets once a week in the cabinet room at Downing Street.
A document issued by the Government laying out its policy, or proposed policy, on a topic of current concern.Although a white paper may occasion consultation as to the details of new legislation, it does signify a clear intention on the part of a government to pass new law. This is a contrast with green papers, which are issued less frequently, are more open-ended and may merely propose a strategy to be implemented in the details of other legislation.
More from wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper
The term "majority" is used in two ways in Parliament. Firstly a Government cannot operate effectively unless it can command a majority in the House of Commons - a majority means winning more than 50% of the votes in a division. Should a Government fail to hold the confidence of the House, it has to hold a General Election. Secondly the term can also be used in an election, where it refers to the margin which the candidate with the most votes has over the candidate coming second. To win a seat a candidate need only have a majority of 1.
