13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
It would come out of the grant—
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, that would—. I mean, the—
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
They haven't all applied. We've had those 40 bids so far, but we are working closely with all local authorities to ensure that they do bid. It varies across Wales, as you know. We've approved 40, we've had 43 submitted across 15 local authorities. So, our…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Yes. I think it is important, just to say, that we have already, for this financial year, approved 40 applications, at a value of £2,368,958. But some of those bids are multi-year bids. So, we have got, in terms of delivering on the funding that we have…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Okay.
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, thank you very much, Jane. I recently had bilaterals with all of my Cabinet colleagues and Ministers about the delivery, the implementation, for example, of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan' following the refresh, and also looking at the disability…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Yes. We have got a budget allocation this year of £1.5 million to enable support to be provided [correction: £1.5 million, which includes enabling support to be provided] for those young people. We've also worked very closely with the Department for Work and…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, that's a really key question, isn't it, and I can assure you that the food partnerships are looking at that. The one I visited in Carmarthenshire, Cegin Hedyn, is part of the food partnership, but it's part of the Bwyd Sir Gâr Food partnership in the…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Diolch yn fawr. I think it's really important to look at ways in which the money that we've given to address food poverty has been spent. I'm allocating an additional £1.5 million for tackling food poverty. That's direct food support to foodbanks, pantries…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
I mean, I will want to obviously share that with yourselves to see the impact of the—. Two years it was always, the transition now we're in, in terms of that pilot.
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Diolch, Jane. I know your support, and very much value your support, for the basic income pilot. But, of course, it was a pilot and we're coming to the end of the pilot period. So, inevitably, that does mean that there isn't the need for the substantial…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
We have a lot to recover, don't we, Jane, after 14 years of austerity and cuts not just to our funding but to benefits across the board. During those years—I think particularly going back to the Cabinet Secretary for finance's ambitions for this budget—we've…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
That's obviously for the education Minister. In terms of listening and learning and uplift and lived experience, as Claire has said, during this year—. The discretionary assistance fund is my main source funding, as you know, which you've backed. I'm really…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Diolch yn fawr. I will go into this in more detail tomorrow, but the Welsh benefits charter, all local authorities signed up to it. They agreed to a phase one. There is an operations group that's delivering on this, which includes all those senior responsible…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Diolch yn fawr, Sioned. The winter fuel payment, of course, is not devolved. It's a benefit that isn't devolved to Wales. It's devolved to Northern Ireland, and it will be to Scotland from this year. But it's not devolved to Wales, so we wouldn't be able to…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, there are some organisations that—I recall the letter from Tenovous—are very dependent on fundraising. We recognise that that is a challenge for them. But I think, as to the community projects foundation and the partnerships, the revitalising fund that…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Diolch yn fawr, Sioned. Well, I hope—and it's in the written evidence, as well, to the committee—that you will see that, this year, we have managed that additional funding: £2 million revenue, £2.9 million capital to support the third sector across Wales…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, I'm really pleased that you're having this measurement framework [correction: you're having briefing on the measurement framework] and we feel that the measurement framework and the dimensions of it are going to enable us to see how we can effectively…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Oh, good.
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
This is something where you know that we have developed a measurement framework for our child poverty strategy, and this is something where I think, in terms of our powers and levers in Wales, it is important that we can measure, and we have, obviously, our…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Diolch yn fawr, Jane.
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, that's, again, back to this strong working relationship that we have with the third sector, and I think those concerns raised by Age Alliance, I hope—and, obviously, we meet with Age Alliance alongside all of the sector, particularly, I have to say, not…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, we have grant-giving arrangements, grant allocation arrangements, which, with the—. We don't quite have remit letters in the same way as perhaps with our public sector bodies, but we're very clear in terms of impact analysis, evaluating. In all grant…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, that has been a concern that has been raised, and been raised with me in Plenary and in many discussions in the last few weeks. Again, it goes back to that our close working relations with the third sector are important. Officials are working with the…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26
Well, I think I've just mentioned—and thank you very much for that question—how important the voluntary sector, the third sector, is in terms of the overall well-being of Wales, in tackling inequalities and meeting the needs of those with the least, and how…
