4. 4. Statement: The Independent Review of Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:05 pm on 13 June 2017.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 4:05, 13 June 2017

Cabinet Secretary, you said that the outset that this is a fast-changing environment that has been vulnerable to a degree of disruption in recent years. The report decides that the Welsh Books Council is the best body—best place—to lead up through this uncertain terrain, but it also says that the Welsh Books Council needs to develop different levels of risk appetite, it needs to develop robust digital strategy, and an increased digital engagement, but it also says that the Welsh Books Council needs to review the nature and capacity of the executive and governance arrangements. Now, taken together, this does seem to me a fairly profound retrofitting of the Welsh Books Council. Given that its reputation is not as the most dynamic of organisations, is the culture Secretary confident that the culture is there within the organisation, given the weaknesses the panel identifies, to be able to carry out the tasks we need it to do?