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Y Pumed Llawr - The Fifth Floor

Lee Waters

10 episodes

1 week ago

An insider guide to politics and government in Wales. The fifth floor is the where Ministers in the Welsh government are based. For 5 years Lee Waters had an office on Ty Hywel’s fifth floor and in this podcast explores what it’s like to be at the heart of Welsh politics.

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5 - Friction

Y Pumed Llawr - The Fifth Floor

43 minutes 13 seconds

9 months ago

5 - Friction

The Welsh Government sets the policies and spends the money, and the Senedd passes the laws. But it's local government that delivers much of the public services.

In this episode of the Fifth Floor former Minister Lee Waters discusses with Welsh Government insiders how the relationship with Councils works - and sometimes doesn't work.

The full set of interviews drawn on by this series have been published by Cardiff University :

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/_data/assets/pdf_file/

0010/2888677/Cathays-Conversations-Lee-

Waters-2025-01-14.pdf