8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Ocê. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Julie.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Very briefly from Chris, then, if you may, and then we'll come back to Julie.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay. Thank you for that clarity. Thank you. Carolyn, you wanted to come in?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay. Did Chris want to come in, just to confirm the consultancy issue?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay, that's really useful. Thank you so much for that. Right, we'll move on, then, and Julie, please.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Thank you.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
And can we be confident that that will be in place for the start of the next financial year, for example?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
We would, because I think for a Minister to say that they can't prove any value for money, and maybe I'm unfair in paraphrasing it that way, but certainly as a committee responsible for scrutiny, that raises a few flags in our minds.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay, thank you. And finally on this, then, in the past we've had transport Ministers tell us that it's impossible to measure the impact of some of the funding that the Welsh Government is providing for this kind of activity, because it's mixed in with other…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay, and conversely, then, how are you going to make sure that devolved regional spending is actually accountable to those local authority voters who are most being impacted? Because there was, of course, concern with the whole corporate joint committees…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
I'm pursuing a little bit further the devolution piece, which, in principle, is, of course, welcome. But with that shift happening, how will you be ensuring, for example, that the funding that you provide is spent in a way that aligns with the Wales transport…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Thank you. Back to you, Janet.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Yes, that would be useful, certainly, although we still have a few more questions on this particularly. Joyce.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay, thank you. Janet.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay, thank you for that. So, just moving on, then, to local and regional transport policy, given that regional transport plans are due to be finalised in the next financial year, how is the budget going to support a move from local to regional transport…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay, because that isn’t specifically itemised in the list of responsibilities of Ministers on the Government’s issued list. Maybe that could be refined a little bit to be clear. That’s just something to take away.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
And what about the ports, sorry? Because obviously you gave us a statement yesterday on Holyhead as well.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
There we are. Okay, thank you for that explanation. Janet, over to you.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
We will be coming back more specifically to these. Just to pursue this national policy developments and projects revenue BEL line, can you clarify the comment in your paper? You say that you’re increasing the transport strategy related revenue budget…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Okay, thank you. Yes, very briefly—okay, very briefly, because I've got something else I want to ask about that particular line.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Please, yes. Chris.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Indeed. Peter.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Yes. Okay. That’s useful. Thank you for that. And just whilst we’re on the structural nature of questions around the budget, could you provide us more detail, Cabinet Secretary, of what will be funded through the national policy developments and projects…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
We’ll come back to it, particularly related to active travel, later on, but was there a point more generally about the MEG that you wanted to make?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
We’re going to go deeper into active travel later on, if you’d allow us to maybe pause. I can see Peter’s put his hand up and, Peter, if it’s appropriate, maybe we can come back to this in a moment, unless it’s something specific.
