Public finances

Statistics published by the Welsh Government. Each chart covers the years since the 2016 Senedd election, or as far back as the figures go, and marks each election since.

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The Programme for Government 2026 to 2030 belongs to the Seventh Senedd. Choose the Seventh Senedd to see how often each commitment has come up.

Source: Welsh Government, Programme for government 2026 to 2030: New ambition for Wales, first published on 10 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Mentions are found by matching the names of plans, bodies and schemes; a mention says nothing about progress.

The Welsh Government's latest press releases and Cabinet statements on this brief.

1. Cabinet statement, 21 October 2026

   Oral Statement: An Update on Council Tax

   Rt Hon Elin Jones MS, Cabinet Minister for Finance

2. Press release, 20 October 2026

   Council tax revaluation paused in difficult budget context

   Legislation to be brought forward to defer council tax revaluation until the next Senedd term.

3. Cabinet statement, 13 October 2026

   Second Supplementary Budget 2026-27

   Elin Jones MS, Cabinet Minister for Finance

4. Press release, 13 October 2026

   Agreement reached on Supplementary Budget

   Welsh Government and Welsh Labour reach agreement on further investment for Additional Learning Needs, enabling the Supplementary Budget for 2026-2027 to proceed.

5. Press release, 27 September 2026

   UK Budget must deliver on its rail promises to Wales

   Welsh Government urges Chancellor to speed up delivery of £14 billion rail pledge, as current funding covers just 1% of Network Rail's spend across England and Wales.

6. Cabinet statement, 25 September 2026

   The Council Tax (Discounts, Disregards and Exemptions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

   Elin Jones MS, Cabinet Minister for Finance

Statements, debates and legislation in Plenary on this brief, newest first. Oral question sessions are counted in the contributions below.

1. 5 November 2024Statement

   The UK Budget

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer43 contributions

2. 22 October 2024Debate

   The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

   Debate

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd23 contributions

3. 22 October 2024Legislation

   The Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (Consequential Provision) (Primary Legislation) Regulations 2024

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd7 contributions

4. 17 September 2024Statement

   Public sector pay

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd15 contributions

5. 16 July 2024Legislation

   & 6. The Digital Government (Welsh Bodies) Regulations 2024 and The Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer9 contributions

6. 9 July 2024Legislation

   The Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 (Amendments to Schedule 5) Regulations 2024

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd7 contributions

7. 11 June 2024Statement

   Context for and approach to the next Spending Review period

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd14 contributions

8. 20 March 2024Debate

   Barnett formula

   Plaid Cymru Debate

   Opened by Paul Davies27 contributions

Votes are tagged from their own titles and the agenda item they were held under.

Ministers' meetings with outside organisations and their engagements on this brief, from the register the Welsh Government publishes every three months. 5 since the 2026 election; the latest:

1. 17 September 2026

   Bilateral between Cabinet Minister for Finance Welsh Government and Chief Secretary to the Treasury

   Meeting, Cabinet Minister for Finance

2. 22 July 2026

   PW/CMF - Call with the Chancellor

   Meeting, Cabinet Minister for Finance

3. 22 July 2026

   Chancellor of the Exchequer

   Meeting, First Minister of Wales

4. 30 June 2026

   Briefing from Minister for Armed Forces and Chief Secretary to the Treasury

   Meeting, Cabinet Minister for Finance

5. 16 June 2026

   Introductory virtual meeting with Chief Secretary to the Treasury

   Meeting, Cabinet Minister for Finance

Source: Welsh Government, ministerial meetings and engagements. The register is published three months or more after the meetings it lists.

• 37% of Welsh adults said levels of taxation would be very important to their vote.

Ipsos asked 747 Welsh adults aged 16+ between 2 April 2026 and 8 April 2026, before the 2026 Senedd election. People could choose as many issues as they liked. More on public opinion.

No written questions on this brief in the Sixth Senedd yet.

3 petitions to the Senedd on this brief, open ones first, then by signatures:

1. Scrap the council tax "loophole": holiday lets should pay their way

   Open

   315 signatures

2. Restore a fair funding route so Welsh students aren’t shut out from MT/dance degrees in England

   Closed

   10,585 signatures

3. Welsh Government to provide fair funding to Cardiff Council to enable essential works on Roath Park Primary

   Closed

   658 signatures

Committee sessions where this brief was on the agenda, newest first.

1. 10 October 2024Finance Committee

   Evidence session

   Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

   140 contributions

2. 3 October 2024Finance Committee

   Evidence session

   Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26

   183 contributions

3. 25 September 2024Finance Committee

   Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

   Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26

   94 contributions

4. 3 July 2024Finance Committee

   Evidence session 8

   Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations

   127 contributions

5. 26 June 2024Finance Committee

   Evidence session 7

   Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations

   103 contributions

6. 13 June 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Council tax reform (Amendment 45)

   Group 11

   7 contributions

7. 13 June 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Council tax increases (Amendments 35 and 43)

   Group 10

   9 contributions

   • Rejected, 2 for, 4 against, 0 abstainedAmendment 35

8. 13 June 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Council tax revaluation (Amendments 2, 3 and 34)

   Group 9

   10 contributions

   • Agreed, 5 for, 1 against, 0 abstainedAmendment 2
   • Agreed, 5 for, 1 against, 0 abstainedAmendment 3

Articles by Senedd Research, the Senedd's impartial research service, on this brief, published in the Sixth Senedd.

1. The Local Growth Fund: how effectively will it drive regional development?

   9 March 2026

   Professor Kevin Morgan says that Wales has one of the biggest economic development problems in Western Europe.

2. Food for thought? Senedd to debate food processing in Wales

   6 March 2026

   Welsh food and drink sector growth has generally been considered a success story, with the previous target of £7 billion sales value before 2020 being exceeded ahead of schedule.

3. Wales and Ukraine: four years on

   18 February 2026

   This article marks the fourth anniversary of the invasion. It traces Senedd and Welsh Government support for Ukraine and follows our previous articles which are listed at the bottom of this page with links to other useful information.

4. Budget 2026-27: Core funding for local authorities to increase by 4.5%

   26 January 2026

   On 20 January the Welsh Government laid its Final Budget 2026-27. 7% originally proposed in November. In this article we consider the funding across local authorities, which will be debated alongside the Final Budget on Tuesday 27 January.

5. Planning (Wales) Bill and Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Bill: resource page

   11 December 2025

   The Planning (Wales) Bill and the Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Bill were introduced into the Senedd on Monday 15 September 2025.

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3,718 contributions in the Sixth Senedd, newest first.

1. 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…

   Tagged for: “consequentials”Official Record

2. 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…

   Tagged for: “HM Treasury”Official Record

3. 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…

   Tagged for: “Chancellor”, “public finances”Official Record

4. 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…

   Tagged for: “consequentials”, “Welsh Government budget”Official Record

5. Mark IsherwoodConservative

   6 November 2024, Plenary

   Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

   …can you therefore provide that the affordable homes funding, which the Welsh Government will receive in consequentials from the UK Government—and, hopefully, more—will be fully allocated to affordable housing in Wales?

   Tagged for: “consequentials”Official Record

6. Joel JamesConservative

   5 November 2024, Plenary

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: 'The Anti-racist Wales Action Plan'

   …Party as a whole. We should never forget the comments of Rupa Huq MP, who had to apologise to the then Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, for describing him as 'superficially black', and the Labour MP Zarah Sultana, who has publicly stated, and I quote, that Kemi Badenoch 'is one of the most nasty &…

   Tagged for: “Chancellor”Official Record

7. Mark DrakefordLabour

   5 November 2024, Plenary

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

   …will be able to earn without affecting their allowances in future. And I very much welcomed what the Chancellor said in her statement as well about looking to right the wrongs of the past where those unpaid carers have been concerned.

   Tagged for: “Chancellor”Official Record

8. Sioned WilliamsPlaid

   5 November 2024, Plenary

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

   Even with some of the welcome steps made by the Chancellor on public spending, there are decisions made in the budget that will bake in inequality and will, inevitably, increase Welsh Government spending. It was very disappointing not to hear the first female Chancellor—so historic—mention childcare…

   Tagged for: “Chancellor”, “public spending”, “Barnett”, “consequentials”Official Record

9. Mark DrakefordLabour

   5 November 2024, Plenary

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

   …as the Secretary of State for Wales. I have no doubt, myself, that Mr Hart made representations to the Treasury so that there would be a contribution from the UK Government to set alongside the money that the Welsh Government has already provided. The Treasury turned him down; that's what the…

   Tagged for: “the Treasury”Official Record

10. Mark DrakefordLabour

    5 November 2024, Plenary

    Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

    …with him about the financial framework. It's there in Labour's manifesto, it doesn't actually cost the Treasury anything, it just means that we are better able to use the money we have in the most efficient and effective way. Though, Welsh Government has long argued for the reform of Barnett and its…

    Tagged for: “the Treasury”, “Barnett”Official Record

11. Mark DrakefordLabour

    5 November 2024, Plenary

    Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

    I think I did try to answer it when Peter Fox asked that question, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'll try again. The Treasury has said today that there will be additional funding for public sector workers to cover the costs of employer national insurance contributions. It will use the ONS definition of what is a…

    Tagged for: “The Treasury”Official Record

12. Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

    5 November 2024, Plenary

    Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

    …fully reimburse the additional costs of the rise in employer NICs in the public sector, or does the consequential funding of £1.9 billion already take this into account? I didn't hear you answer that when Peter Fox asked it, so if you could clarify that for us, please.

    Tagged for: “consequential”Official Record

13. Mark DrakefordLabour

    5 November 2024, Plenary

    Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

    Dirprwy Lywydd, I'm very happy to confirm that the £25 million is outside Barnett. The Welsh Government made a case to the Treasury for three-year funding for coal tip safety. I failed to answer the point that Heledd Fychan made on this, so I'll answer it now, if I could, which is that we do intend…

    Tagged for: “Barnett”, “the Treasury”, “Chancellor”Official Record

14. Mike HedgesLabour

    5 November 2024, Plenary

    Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

    …they will receive. I'm disappointed that capital gains tax and dividend income were not merged into income tax and taxed accordingly. Has the finance Minister discussed a technical change in how debt is calculated with the Chancellor? If borrowing to fund council housing was balanced by the value of…

    Tagged for: “income tax”, “Chancellor”, “Barnett”, “consequential”Official Record

15. Mark DrakefordLabour

    5 November 2024, Plenary

    Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

    …to be solved in only 14 weeks. That is how long the Labour Government had to create the budget that the Chancellor set out last week, and in it, there are a series of steps that demonstrate how Welsh needs and circumstances have been heard and have been attended to. I said at the end of my…

    Tagged for: “Chancellor”, “spending review”, “Barnett”Official Record

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