Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:42 pm on 30 January 2019.

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Photo of Gareth Bennett Gareth Bennett UKIP 2:42, 30 January 2019

Diolch, Llywydd. I'd like to welcome the Minister to her new role, and also welcome back the Deputy Minister to his. One of the policy areas of your department is the staging of major events. I was interested to hear the answers that you gave in response to question 1 from Mandy Jones, and the supplementaries. Of course, Mandy was perfectly correct in her point that, although it's very good to have events coming to Cardiff, there's also a need to spread events across Wales in general and also to include north Wales, so I was also interested to hear your response to Rhun's enquiries about the Island Games that are projected for Ynys Môn. Clearly, there are going to be a lot of Members coming to you, pitching for these kinds of events.

One major event that was discussed previously in this Assembly term was a future Commonwealth Games bid coming from Wales, which was something that Ken Skates was very keen on when he had the portfolio for major events. I appreciate what you said earlier about certain events being city based, and indeed, the Commonwealth Games is one such event. But I think Ken Skates did have the idea that certain parts of the bid could be put to different parts of Wales—it wouldn't necessarily be totally focused on one city. Of course, I'm not stating which city should be at the heart of such a bid. But have you looked at a future Commonwealth Games bid and is that something that has crossed your desk thus far?