6. Motion to approve the Assembly Commission's Budget 2019-20

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:38 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 3:38, 14 November 2018

I'll just turn straight away to the Youth Parliament. Of course, this is the first time we've done it, and it's the first time anybody in an Assembly of this size has done quite what we're doing as well. If you remember, the way that we are constructing this is quite different from existing examples with the UK Parliament, and even what Scotland is attempting to do. So, I hope you will bear with us in giving you specific figures. I think it would be perhaps unfortunate to expect us to update you week-on-week on how we're spending on this. Please come back and scrutinise us in PAC next year, when we will have actual figures to give you. And, of course, the figures aren't actually plucked from thin air. They are taken from examples, well, estimates, of how much work individual members of staff here will need to do in order to work in the various constituencies, and with the bodies who aren't constituency—