7. 7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: A Tourism Tax

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:42 pm on 25 October 2017.

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Photo of Joyce Watson Joyce Watson Labour 4:42, 25 October 2017

Not now. I’ve only just started. You had your say earlier on.

And all four—a levy to fund social care, a packaging tax, a tax on vacant land and the tourism levy—do have huge potential for good, and they have pitfalls as well. That’s why this process is so compelling. Welsh Government has said it will test all four proposals before submitting one of them to the UK Government early next year. That, to me, seems entirely sensible. But, what makes no sense whatsoever is to say ‘no’ now; to close down the debate before it has even started, and that’s exactly what the Conservatives are trying to do. Did you want an intervention?