, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Okay. My final question is about access to childcare for disabled children. I'd like to know in what way, if any, have you used allocations in this draft budget to address the wide-ranging concerns about childcare, as set out in the report previously.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you for that. I'll stay on the same theme. So, for the full Flying Start programme as well as child poverty now, we're all aware on this committee, and I think beyond, that children are more likely to be living in poverty than any other age group…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Thank you so much, Chair. My question is actually for the Minister for Children and Social Care. I'll begin by asking about funding for the full roll-out of the Flying Start childcare, if that's okay with you. I'd like to know why there isn't a commitment in…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I will. That's fine. That's fine. That's okay. As I said, the move has understandably sparked a great deal of discontent amongst constituents in Newport East, Newport West and the region who use the service—there you go, Presiding Officer, I was coming to…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Newport East. I appreciate that, Presiding Officer, but—
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, just before Christmas, it was announced that the acute stroke unit at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil was going to close. The service has now been moved to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, more than 20 miles away. Whilst I…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
They really, really are. You should go out into the world.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
They still are.
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Cabinet Secretary, like so many others around this Chamber, I was left devastated by the truly awful scenes that we saw unfold in Abergavenny on Sunday night. Understandably, the community has been left in complete shock, with homes lost, businesses destroyed…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Feel free to start from the beginning, Chair; we did lose you—[Inaudible.]—the ground. It's fine.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Shall we wait for him for a couple of minutes?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I believe we've lost the Chair, Gareth.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Chair, I'm happy to agree the reporting points, but just one point is that I would like to have a bit more clarification, whether that be from the Welsh Government, about point No. 6 of our papers in relation to 'serve an improvement notice may appeal'…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you so much, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
And alongside numbers, we love formulas, so please feel free to share the formula with the committee—we'd be very grateful. My final question is this: what assessment has the Welsh Government made in relation to ongoing funding needs to support Ukrainians in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Yes, please.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay, great. Just a small sidebar to the question that you’ve just answered, which was great. And I’m sorry, I’m jumping on Mike Hedges’s questions from earlier. On the £2.5 million that you received, for example, for homelessness, you said that has been…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you so much for your answer. How much UK Government funding is the Welsh Government expecting to receive for the year 2024-25 relating to the Ukraine response, including any funding to prevent homelessness amongst Ukrainians?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
That’s great. As a committee, we love detail, so feel free to share as soon as you get them. Can you please share with the committee, also, what the latest position is on spending against the budget for 2024-25, and how that budget is going to be allocated?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you so much for your answer. You mentioned that you are in the process. Do you have a date in mind as to when you’ll be able to give us a concrete figure?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you, Chair. I'm going to come back to the money side of things, if that's okay with you all. Can you share with the committee the outturn position for 2023-24 compared with the revised October 2023 budget of £37.5 million, in what areas any underspends…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay. Final question from me: so, how have you, as Welsh Government officials, engaged, and have previously engaged with, and influenced UK Government colleagues on discussions around changes to the UK Government funding through tariffs and other sources?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Okay. So, jumping on what my colleague Mike Hedges said, based on current world affairs that we've seen in the last 24 hours, if we do see a massive influx of more Ukrainian refugees coming in to Wales, have you got any projections as to how that's going to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, ladies. So, I want to talk to you a bit about spending, and I'm glad you went on that. So, Welsh Government initially estimated that this entire matter was going to cost roughly £18 million. You actually ended up…
