​Written Assembly Questions tabled on 15 May 2017 for answer on 22 May 2017
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Written Questions must be tabled at least five working days before they are to be answered. In practice, Ministers aim to answer within seven/eight days but are not bound to do so. Answers are published in the language in which they are provided, with a translation into English of responses provided in Welsh.
To ask the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure
Adam Price (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): Have the Cabinet Secretary's independent advisors verified the figures for economic impact proposed for the Circuit of Wales by the consultants KADA? (WAQ73499)
Answer recieved on 22 May 2017
Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure (Ken Skates): Officials are currently in the process of due diligence. The results of that work will be made available to the Cabinet for a final decision on the project.
Adam Price (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): When was the Cabinet Secretary first informed of the intention of the Wales Audit Office to publish its report on the Circuit of Wales in late April? (WAQ73500)
Answer received on 24 May 2017
Ken Skates: Officials were given unusually short notice of the intention to publish by the Wales Audit Office. On the 13th April WAO staff met with Officials when they were verbally advised that the report was to be published on 24th April. Later the same day the Auditor General wrote to the Deputy Permanent Secretary with a copy of his draft report together with his draft press statement confirming his intended publication date. With Easter falling in the intervening period the advance notice of publication was only 5 working days.
Adam Price (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): Does the Cabinet Secretary hold any figures on a sub-national, regional or local basis of direct government financial assistance to business within Wales on an annualised basis; and will those figures be published? (WAQ73501)
Answer received on 24 May 2017
Ken Skates: Whilst we record certain information, we do not formally collate annual figures in this format.
Adam Price (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): Will the Cabinet Secretary list the key concerns referred to in his written statement of the 27th April, regarding the content and the inferences of the Wales Audit Office report which were not addressed prior to its publication? (WAQ73502)
Answer recieved on 22 May 2017
Ken Skates: The key concerns not addressed by the Wales Audit Office prior to publication are fully described in my written statement of 27 April.
Adam Price (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): Did the Cabinet Secretary's department seek to influence the Circuit of Wales in relation to the evidence they provided as part of the recent Wales Audit Office inquiry? (WAQ73503)
Answer recieved on 22 May 2017
Ken Skates: Officials did not discuss with the Circuit of Wales or otherwise influence the evidence the company and its senior representatives provided to the Wales Audit Office inquiry.
To ask the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs
Andrew RT Davies (South Wales Central): Will the Cabinet Secretary confirm if there is a plan of Ogmore Common in the Vale of Glamorgan which highlights the areas subject to a scheme of maintenance, and if so, can the Cabinet Secretary provide a copy of this plan? (WAQ73498)
Answer recieved on 22 May 2017
Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs (Lesley Griffiths): The requested information is not held by Welsh Government but may be available from the Vale of Glamorgan Council.