19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
I just want to raise primary care. Now, I'm fairly confident, when we have the budget coming out and it goes to health boards, the percentage increase into the health boards will not be equalled by the percentage increase for primary care. It never has done…
17 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad a Chyhoeddiad Busnes
Rwy'n gofyn am ddatganiad gan y Llywodraeth ar daliadau fferm sylfaenol. Rwy'n gofyn am ddatganiad yn rhoi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am ddarparu taliadau fferm sylfaenol ac yn egluro pam mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn gwrthwynebu cynnig Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru i gapio…
17 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Diolch. Rwyf i wedi fy argyhoeddi o fanteision Dechrau'n Deg. Mae'n atal plant rhag dechrau addysg ffurfiol ag oedran datblygiadol sy'n sylweddol is na'u hoedran go iawn. Rydym ni wedi gweld yn Lloegr y Prif Weinidog yn diddymu newidiadau i'r system gofal…
17 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
4. A wnaiff y Prif Weinidog roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am gefnogaeth Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Dechrau'n Deg? OQ58938
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
You nearly did. [Laughter.]
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thank you very much.
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
But that test is not relevant to Wales, is it? Because you've got places like Connah's Quay, which are not far different from the Welsh side to the English side, whereas with the Scotland-England border, the big population centres are back up in the central…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
I saw a map, and it might have been from you, where it showed how close landfill sites in the north-west of England and the south-west of England are to Wales. So, aren't we very dependent on landfill tax in England, and if England dropped theirs by 25 per…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
And volume depends on value. Why would you sell a house that is worth 10 per cent less than what you paid for it, rather than waiting for inflation and other factors to catch up and take it back, at which stage you might want to sell it? I think that that's…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Before this tax got devolved, when we had stamp duty, what I saw was—and you can tell me if I have got this wrong—that it was volatile and cyclical, and when we had the problem with the financial crash, in Wales, the amount of stamp duty being collected…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Mine will be very brief.
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Sorry, I was talking back to about 1990.
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Talking about consumption, are you talking about consumption in cash terms or volume terms? With 10 per cent inflation, if people spend 5 per cent more, it's a 5 per cent reduction in volume. And haven't gas and oil prices been volatile for a very long time?
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you. That's one of the things that I was banging on about two years ago, when I was making limited progress. I will keep on banging on about it and, hopefully, I will make more progress. I will quote you as being a supporter as well, Victoria. The final…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Can I talk about free school meals? Anybody who has followed me in the Senedd—which is probably nobody outside my office—will know that I was asking questions on free school meals two years ago, and expanding free school meals, and I was getting a lot of very…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
I think Luke wants to say something.
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
I should have said that before I came here in 2011, I taught at a further education college, and the number of students who would not have been there without EMA, albeit not being sufficient, was fairly substantial. I think that we need to perhaps realise…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you. To Victoria: you reported the freeze on the education maintenance allowance and its eligibility thresholds. I spent many years campaigning for EMA to continue after they did away with it in England, and we were much more interested in actually…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Natasha, you have talked about childcare earlier, and you talked about—. 'Disappointment' was one of the words you used—I wrote it down. It's incredibly expensive, but it also has an effect on the broader family when grandparents tend to fulfil caring roles…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
One mistake on one form that throws you out means that you don't think anybody's going to give you anything. I just want to ask—I'm not sure who, it might be to Luke—has anybody done any work on the correlation between the length of the forms that people have…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Can I declare an interest? My office is a member of the Bevan Foundation.
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
And finally, last year you suggested it wasn’t clear what Net Zero Wales commitments were being funded as part of the budget. Do you see it in this year’s budget?
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
If my colleague Joyce Watson was here, she’d tell you that she thinks that we ought to have legislation to stop people tarmacking over all their gardens, which is causing problems with biodiversity and problems with drainage. Would you agree with that?
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
I'm sure that biodiversity would improve because of cuts in local government expenditure: where they don’t cut grass verges down to an eighth of an inch above the earth, where they don’t cut the grass on the roundabouts to an eighth of an inch above the…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
You talked about biodiversity earlier. I'm very keen on biodiversity. If you ever listen to any of the debates, I normally talk about equilibrium in terms of the environment and the importance of the high-end predators, which stop the rats and seagulls…
