Cyllid a gwasanaethau cynghorau

Rebecca EvansLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

…and evaluation frameworks. You will have strategic development plans also being developed at the CJC level. In that sense, you have the tools and you've got a structure in which delivery can take place. But I absolutely recognise there are different views amongst local government and amongst…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “CJC”Cofnod swyddogol

Alun DaviesLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

I don't want that in Blaenau Gwent. My experience is that the CJC covering south Wales, the Cardiff city region, is Cardiff, south Wales and the M4 corridor, and that's fine for doing that. But, for an organisation that has failed to deliver any strategic approach to the economy of the Heads of the…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “CJC”Cofnod swyddogol

Rebecca EvansLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

I will absolutely agree with you that there are different views amongst local government about CJCs and the use of CJCs for the local growth fund. However, this is what we have proposed.

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “CJCs”Cofnod swyddogol

Andrew RT DaviesCeidwadwyr

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

Did you read our report and our letter on the north Wales CJC's delivery of the growth fund up there?

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “CJC”Cofnod swyddogol

Rebecca EvansLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

We thought the CJCs, actually—and we consulted on this—were really well placed, because the purposes directly align with the local growth fund model. Strategic economic development, regional transport planning and land use planning are going to be core levers that will be required to underpin…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “CJCs”Cofnod swyddogol

Jenny RathboneLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

Important not to reinvent the wheel. You've clearly stated that your plan is to use the four corporate joint committees to lead on the regional allocations. What methodology are you going to be using to justify any national project?

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “corporate joint committees”Cofnod swyddogol

Rebecca EvansLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

…think that the most important thing that we've been able to do is support local government through the revenue support grant and trying to provide local government with the best possible settlement, as we always do. So, this funding should only be seen as a small part of the wider picture of local…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “revenue support grant”Cofnod swyddogol

Rebecca EvansLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Cronfa Twf Lleol

…next steering group meeting. And those meetings involve me and the four economy spokespeople from the WLGA. But, beyond that, we also have really good engagement at official level with officers in local government as well. So, we are doing everything we can. If there's more we can do to be even more…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “WLGA”Cofnod swyddogol

Rebecca EvansLlafur

29 Ionawr 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 5

No, and I understand that the points that you're raising now are big, structural issues. There are very many views on local government reform and so on—

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “local government reform”Cofnod swyddogol

James Price

29 Ionawr 2026, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu blynyddol ar waith Trafnidiaeth Cymru

…discussions with Welsh Government about that now. I want to broaden that out to a discussion with the corporate joint committees and think about it from a regional economic development perspective. But, on the basis that there's a three to four-year lead-in time to do anything about it, we shouldn't…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “corporate joint committees”Cofnod swyddogol

Vernon Everitt

29 Ionawr 2026, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu blynyddol ar waith Trafnidiaeth Cymru

…of what they'd like to see happen on Welsh railways, but it will have, I think, everything that the CJCs would recognise as the natural—. And we've worked through that with them collaboratively. I think the rubber hits the road a little bit when we start talking about how we're going to prioritise…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “CJCs”Cofnod swyddogol

Vernon Everitt

29 Ionawr 2026, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu blynyddol ar waith Trafnidiaeth Cymru

…down by the Wales rail board. Clearly, Welsh Government are going to have a view about this stuff, corporate joint committees are going to have a view about it in their areas. That pipeline will be co-created, but the whole idea is to produce a pipeline of work and decently outlined business cases…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “corporate joint committees”Cofnod swyddogol