The Welsh budget

Jayne BryantLabour

22 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…homelessness. Our immediate focus is on homelessness prevention and delivery of more homes, with the draft budget providing an additional £21 million for the housing support grant and £81 million for social housing in support of this.

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

22 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…the dark about its level and its timing, but you are open to a floor, as you explained earlier, in the final budget. We know the pressure on local government budgets is approximately 7 per cent, coupled with an average settlement of 4.3 per cent, with some getting as little as 2.8 per cent—well…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

22 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…consequentials when they eventually get here? Are you confident that you will have enough funds in the Welsh budget to make up the difference between the reality and the formula allocation, when it comes to fully funding the consequences of the Chancellor's decision?

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Jayne BryantLabour

22 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…sector in Wales provides crucial services to our communities and people in most need of support. In the draft budget, we have committed to a three-year funding agreement for the third sector to support Wales, comprising of £25.8 million.

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Jayne BryantLabour

22 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…formula. We are, as a Government, very open to considering providing additional floor funding at the final budget, so that is something that we are looking at. We’re committed to continuing to use and maintain a fair and transparent funding formula for the local government settlement, which is…

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Jayne BryantLabour

22 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…say again that I and the Government are very open to considering providing additional floor funding at final budget. So, that is also something that I just want to be clear with the Senedd on.

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Hannah BlythynLabour

22 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…Welsh Government is taking in rightly prioritising public services, and I recognise that this year’s draft budget is that step towards a brighter future, but that it’ll take time to undo the damage done by austerity. However, you’ll be aware that I and others in my constituency are concerned that…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

The Land Transaction Tax (Tax Bands and Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. In the draft budget published in December, I set out details of the Welsh Government plans for expenditure in the coming financial year and also for how we will live up to our responsibilities in raising revenue to support those spending priorities. In respect of land…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales

…Government. At least now we have the opportunity to bring forward an additional £1.5 billion into the Welsh budget. I really hope you'll support it, because a lot of the additional funding that I've announced recently is predicated upon what we've just said. So, I really hope you don't vote against…

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Jane HuttLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

…of food security for our communities here in Wales. And I hope that you will consider supporting our draft budget, Peter Fox, because in it it includes a considerable amount of funding from my portfolio, and indeed from the Deputy First Minister's portfolio, to ensure that we can keep our food…

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Eluned MorganLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…Valleys lines, that is being discussed. We know that this is likely to be taken forward through the UK spending review. Just in relation to the broader issue of fairness, the UK Labour manifesto recognised that the Welsh fiscal framework, the Barnett formula, is out of date, and those conversations…

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Eluned MorganLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…you will know how much it will be. You know very well that this is all going to be wrapped up in the spending review, and you’re going to have to be a little bit patient. We’ve tried to be patient for 14 years; it’s taken a while. But what shocks me is that you’re here banging the table for £4…

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Buffy WilliamsLabour

16 January 2025, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2

Thank you. Well, thank you so much for joining us this morning. We really, really appreciate your time. You'll be sent a transcript in due course. Thank you so much again.

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