23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Okay, thank you for that. Just finally from me, and I'll come to John Griffiths after this: some of the discussions that you've been having with UK Government—well, I hope that you've been having them with the UK Government, and I believe that you have—are on…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Yes, it's a very complicated issue, because every local authority—especially local authorities—are at different stages of managing their budgets, and you give them the autonomy to do that, but some might have made decisions and, in hindsight, they might have…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Taking that forward for public services in Wales—some are done in-house, and they are public service employees in that definition—and then you have third sector and other bodies providing front-line services in our communities that are contracted out—that…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
I think you’ve described it as fundamentally unfair.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Talking a bit about bundles of money potentially going to local government in particular and possibly a wider context rather than just local government, but in terms of the national insurance contributions, it’s come up nearly with every single stakeholder…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
A letter we've been copied into, to Welsh Government from the future generations commissioner, urges it to protect and ring-fence funding for prevention in future Welsh Government budgets. So, have you had sight of that letter? And how do you go about doing…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Some of the work that the OBR have been doing, and others, is looking at the effects of climate change—I know the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales obviously looks at that longer term, and we've got the Act to do that. In this way that you're looking…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Thank you. I'm just trying to think of the people on the bus that you were talking about earlier—maybe not necessarily those, but our stakeholders, local government, some of the people that we've had in front of us giving evidence. What will they see from…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Thank you for that. The UK Government are doing a spending review. You've committed to doing a Welsh spending review. Could you talk about timescales with that and how that will be fed through, and how those results will be described and maybe the process…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
We seem to be having strange years every year.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Because it's closer to apples and apples then when you're—
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
I briefly looked at that last night and it seemed to answer some of that concern. It's more about tracking year on year. And where there are changes in-year, I know it's difficult, but it's trying to get a sense of where the money's flowing, to be able to…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Thank you for that. Moving on, then, to something that we talked a little bit about when you were with us last, your inclusion of a revised baseline for 2024-25. It's caused some confusion for some stakeholders when comparing revenue and capital spending year…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
I don't want us to be in the same position as we were a few years ago when money went back.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
And that wouldn't impact then on your ability to use those within the timescales that they need.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Is that in the region of hundreds of millions or tens of millions?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
With Barnett consequentials—and we've seen late consequentials come in in a number of years—are you anticipating any more between now and the financial year end?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
High on the priority list.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
What's the reason behind them not publishing? Do you have a sense, from discussions you've had with Treasury?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
And we've been through quite a few different iterations of that, and reasons for the exceptional process. I think some of the work that I did, and the committee did, with your predecessor in getting to some consensus on some of that, I think we just need that…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Because we've gone, effectively, in an exceptions process for six or seven years, rather than—. So, it's not an exception anymore.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
—and explore the issues caused by the timings of fiscal events to start off with, including budget planning and scrutiny and some of those aspects. You know, it’s a long-standing subject that we as a committee—and I know that it impacts on you as a Government…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
Rydyn ni’n ddiolchgar iawn i’ch cael chi yma ar gyfer y sesiwn yma, ac rydyn ni wedi derbyn llawer o dystiolaeth o flaen llaw. Ac wrth gwrs, fe gawsom ni’r sesiwn jest cyn y Nadolig efo chi pan gyflwynwyd y gyllideb. Dwi eisiau edrych yn gyntaf y bore yma—
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 8
So, we’ll move on to the third item this morning, which is our substantive item for this morning, which is evidence session 8 on the Welsh Government draft budget for 2025-26. We have witnesses here with us, and the Cabinet Secretary. I just wondered if you’d…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
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