Extracts from proceedings in the Welsh Parliament - Nov 11
Thursday, 12 November 2020 08:03
Extract from debate on the petition P-05-1060, 'Allow supermarkets
to sell "non-essential" items during movement restrictions' Nick
Ramsay MS:...I'll be frank—I think that, at the start of this, this
started out as a well-meaning attempt by the Welsh Government to
create an even playing field and to make sure that small shops
weren't suffering compared with supermarkets. Now, whether or not
that happened in practice, I think a review will reveal that. I
suspect that what actually happened...Request free trial
Extract from debate
on the petition P-05-1060, 'Allow supermarkets to sell
"non-essential" items during movement restrictions'
:...I'll be frank—I think that, at the start of this,
this started out as a well-meaning attempt by the Welsh Government
to create an even playing field and to make sure that small shops
weren't suffering compared with supermarkets. Now, whether or not
that happened in practice, I think a review will reveal that. I
suspect that what actually happened is that the big beneficiaries
of this process were the online consumers, the Amazons of
this world and the like. That was my concern, and that was
certainly the concern of constituents who contacted me...
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Extract from
debate on the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications
Committee's Report on the Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the
creative industries
:...I'd like to pay tribute to the
public service broadcasters for keeping going throughout the
pandemic, and providing the crucial information we all need to find
out exactly what is happening. If we compare what's happened in
this country with what happened in the United States, where all
sorts of wild rumours and false news were allowed to take off
because there isn't a core public broadcasting service that
everybody can draw on, and that is potentially very, very
dangerous. We have to acknowledge that ITV and Channel 4 have been
seriously affected by the loss of advertising revenue. We are at
risk of losing them, simply because they could be overwhelmed by
these big brothers, Amazon and Netflix, which
have, obviously, cleaned up with everybody being forced to stay at
home. So, that is a really serious problem for our cultural
future...
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