Funding from the UK Treasury

Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

6 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

…taxes and increased borrowing, threaten both immediate economic stability and long-term growth. The OBR has downgraded growth by 0.7 per cent over the next five years, and debt is now projected to reach £3 trillion within two years. That's £3,000,000,000,000. The budget's effects on inflation…

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

6 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

…to exacerbate regional economic disparities and drive more Welsh workers towards economic hardship. The OBR has warned that this budget is likely to stoke inflation further, by keeping it above the 2 per cent target until 2029. This will have catastrophic consequences for living standards across…

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Heledd FychanPlaid

6 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

…that the Tories support Plaid Cymru's position in terms of HS2 funding and in terms of reforming the Barnett formula, it would be remiss of me not to point out that their masters in London had 14 years to change this and that they chose not to. These are early days when it comes to the new Labour…

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Peter FoxConservative

6 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

…something most of us here are agreed on, one that seeks a needs-based formula that replaces the current Barnett system, and I think we all agree that needs rethinking. Finally, I know the First Minister has said that she has as much influence over the next President of the United States as she does…

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Peter FoxConservative

6 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

…look good now, but the proof will be in the pudding. We need the Welsh Government to use any additional consequentials to effectively tackle our NHS waiting times, which successive health Ministers have clearly lost control of. This will involve a holistic approach to our health service, taking into…

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Peter FoxConservative

6 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

…people, despite the fact that many are struggling and do not take more than the minimum wage home. The Chancellor promised not to alter her fiscal rules to enable more borrowing, yet now we have billions of pounds added to the country's debt through her blatant fiddling of her own fiscal rules.…

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Sioned WilliamsPlaid

6 November 2024, Plenary

Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'

Thank you, Llywydd dros dro. We heard no mention of the adverse effects of Brexit in the Chancellor's statement last week. Indeed, the Labour Party has been very careful not to pay any attention to the huge elephant that sits in our country's political room—the elephant that is having such a…

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Vikki HowellsLabour

6 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education

Thank you, Cefin Campbell, for the question. I acknowledge that the Chancellor's announcements of changes to employer national insurance contributions from April next year will increase costs for our universities, and I'm currently working with my officials with the affected sectors to understand…

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Cefin CampbellPlaid

6 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

Thank you. As four leaders in councils led by Plaid Cymru in rural areas noted recently, in a letter to the Chancellor before the budget, they noted many of our local authorities are finding it difficult to provide services in rural areas, particularly in core services such as education and social…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

6 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…I’ll look forward to getting that update from you. Finally, can the Cabinet Secretary assure us that consequentials from the social care spend in England will go directly to Welsh councils rather than being absorbed into the Welsh health budget, to ensure that councils are able to fund the vital…

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Jayne BryantLabour

6 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

Diolch, Peredur. HM Treasury have acknowledged that the change to employer national insurance contributions from April will increase costs for public sector employers, and they’ve said that they’ll provide funding to the public sector to support them with additional costs associated with these…

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Jayne BryantLabour

6 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

…remember here that we've got that £22 billion black hole from the previous UK Governments that the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has started to have to fix. The position of the new UK Government that we've inherited cannot be turned around in one budget, and I think we have to be…

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Mark IsherwoodConservative

6 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

Thank you, but the question was: what assurances will you provide that the allocation for affordable homes funding you receive in consequentials from the UK Government will be fully allocated to affordable housing in Wales? Following on from that, last week, Shelter Cymru published a new report…

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