The Welsh budget

Peter FoxConservative

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

So, we know the supplementary budget shows us where this Welsh Government has allocated its funding that it has received in-year, and while we cannot go back in time and change their choices, we can challenge the priorities that were made and highlight the need for a change in direction. While the…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

Llywydd, I'd like to finish my contribution by talking about progress made between the Welsh Government and the Treasury on securing better budget flexibilities in order to maximise devolved spending in Wales. Members will be aware that this is an area of long-standing interest to the committee, and…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

The committee notes that the changes included in this supplementary budget are largely operational and transactional in nature. However, we found it particularly difficult to understand the real impact of cash and non-cash movements on this occasion. Allocations made in this supplementary budget…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

…to speak in this debate today on behalf of the Finance Committee. The committee scrutinised the first supplementary budget on 10 October, and I'd like to thank the Cabinet Secretary and his officials for their attendance.

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Mark DrakefordLabour

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

Llywydd, there will be a second supplementary budget later on in the financial year. The second supplementary budget will identify any other funding that is allocated from reserves this year. That too will include the details of any consequential funding for Wales, positive or negative, following…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

Llywydd, the supplementary budget includes both spending and financing plans for the Welsh Government and the bodies directly funded from the Welsh consolidated fund. It has been the usual practice for the first supplementary budget to take place before the summer recess. However, this year this was…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

Thank you, Llywydd. The first supplementary budget for 2024-25 is the first opportunity to update the plans for this financial year. It follows changes that have been made since the Senedd passed the final budget in March. The supplementary budget also makes changes to be consistent with the new…

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Y Llywydd / The Llywydd

22 October 2024, Plenary

Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

That brings us to item 10, the debate on the first supplementary budget 2024-25. The Cabinet Secretary for finance to move the motion. Mark Drakeford.

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Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

22 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…Now, in power, they want us to accept that it’s a fraction of that. Amending Plaid Cymru’s budget motion for tomorrow, Labour simply calls for further discussions on HS2. Why is the First Minister giving up on fighting for Wales’s billions?

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Mike HedgesLabour

16 October 2024, Finance Committee

Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session

…any contingencies regarding the costs in place for either of these cases, or will you come back with a supplementary budget?

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Jeremy MilesLabour

16 October 2024, Plenary

Topical Questions

…damage to the roof of the Princess of Wales Hospital is, unfortunately, the latest example of that. Our capital budget this year is worth up to around 8 per cent less in real terms than expected at the time of the spending review in 2021. I would say, though, that health boards are provided with a…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

16 October 2024, Plenary

Topical Questions

…to Rachel Reeves to demand that the upcoming autumn statement includes a real-terms increase in Wales’s capital budget over the coming financial year, so that he and the Government can get to grips with issues in this hospital, and the estate more broadly?

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