Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 2:42 pm on 28 November 2018.
Well, there has been a discussion with the HLF and those discussions are ongoing. I’m not in a position to say whether there will be a further extension to the timetable, but I do hope that there will be, which will give us an opportunity to resolve this issue within the next month or two. That is crucial for me, but I must make it entirely clear that I was not content to see any reduction in the provision of the national library as the National Library for Wales. And it’s a question to be asked of the BBC, and I’m not entirely clear of this situation: what’s happening and who is paying for the BBC archive in England, in Northern Ireland and in Scotland? I can’t believe that Ministers within those Governments are going to provide funds for the BBC, which receives significant funds from us all as part of the licence fee, when it is possible to resolve these issues without having additional public expenditure from a restricted budget of the devolved Governments.