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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I remain personally very committed to the conclusions of the Burns report, having been involved in its establishment and having discussed its work with Lord Burns on a number of occasions as his thinking developed. We do have £445 million in rail investment…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Llywydd, thank you to the Member for that further question. He is right to point to the fact that all the investments we're talking about have suffered because that part of Wales is no longer able to claim post-European funding in the way that we had been…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Llywydd, just to be clear, there is no shortfall in funding for apprenticeships. There was an additional £5 million in the final budget for apprenticeships, as well as a £5 million investment in further education. The apprenticeship investment means that we…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I thank the Member for the question. Llywydd, the 2026-27 budget continues or completes the programme for government for this Senedd term. It funds key economy portfolio investments in skills, apprenticeships, regional economic development and business…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Finance (No. 2) Bill
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thanks to all Members who've taken part in the discussion. A number of questions were raised about when the power will become available to the Senedd. I don't think it's possible to anticipate that because the Senedd this…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Finance (No. 2) Bill
On 26 November last year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced changes to the income tax rates applied to income derived from property, those changes to be introduced from April 2027 onwards. A new set of income tax rates are to be established to reflect…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Finance (No. 2) Bill
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I move the motion.
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The Tax Collection and Management (Visitor Levy Costs) (Wales) Regulations 2026
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Well, of course, it's Mr Rowlands's job to oppose the policy. We've heard a well-rehearsed set of arguments that were comprehensively defeated by the Senedd in vote after vote during the passage of the Bill. His job is to…
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The Tax Collection and Management (Visitor Levy Costs) (Wales) Regulations 2026
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm pleased to introduce these draft regulations, which are a part of implementing the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Act 2025, which received Royal Assent in September. The regulations support the…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
No. No, you are absolutely wrong about that. It's a line that the Conservatives have peddled over many years. It has never persuaded the public, because they understand that, what happened in that one year, was that money was placed in health and social care…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Yes, of course.
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Let me tell the Member what I see in Wales, because I never see in Wales the utterly dismal story that he and his friends only ever tell. I see a country in which we have the most successful education in the whole of the United Kingdom, where children go…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Llywydd, diolch yn fawr. Good politics requires both collaboration and contestation, and we've seen all of that on the floor of the Senedd this afternoon. But it is remarkable, Llywydd, it seems to me, how over the whole of the period of devolution, for more…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
It's also part of our commitment to make cultural buildings more efficient and supports better productivity, another focus of the Finance Committee's scrutiny of the final budget. Dirprwy Lywydd, let me end by putting all these details in their wider context…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Dirprwy Lywydd, I can't list every example of additional funding this afternoon, but I would like to highlight the £3.1 million in capital funding for the Welsh language. This is mainly in order to undertake renovations to the Urdd's residential sites. This…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Dirprwy Lywydd, we have more money to allocate in this final budget as a result of both additional funding arising from the UK budget in November and from increases in forecast devolved tax revenues. Along with the unallocated funding set aside at the draft…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. It's my pleasure to lay the final budget for 2026-27 before the Senedd today. I would like to begin by thanking everyone in this Senedd for participating in the process of laying the budget. Every one of the Senedd…
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Debate: Welsh Rates of Income Tax 2026-27
Thank you to Mike Hedges for confirming his support for the Welsh rates of income tax motion, and for the powerful points he makes in relation to dividend income. I was grateful for Jane Dodds's support for the motion as well. She puts forward her party's…
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Debate: Welsh Rates of Income Tax 2026-27
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to everyone who has contributed to the debate.
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Debate: Welsh Rates of Income Tax 2026-27
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Welsh rates of income tax were introduced in April 2019 and they apply to the non-savings and non-dividend element of income earned by Welsh residents. Welsh rates of income tax are forecast to raise nearly £4 billion in the…
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Diolch yn fawr.
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Both of those things were mentioned at the meeting. More time was spent on vacant land tax. One of the slightly frustrating things—it's been true of Governments of different colours—is that when you're dealing with UK Ministers, you don't often meet the same…
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Well, there is data already available. It's not yet as complete as we will need it to be, but we're not without data, which is the advice I've had. I was able to show some of the scale of the sliver and what would happen if you were to vary the rates. But…
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
So, those Standing Order provisions will need to be examined.
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
You do, exactly, for a very good reason.
