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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

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21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
There will be a transcript available for you to check for accuracy, and if you could supply that note, that would be very, very interesting for us. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thank you very much for this morning.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you very much.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
That gives us a lot of other things to think about. Just before you go on, you mentioned that meeting that you had with the Exchequer after this was announced, then, talking about taxes, and it's something that we enjoy talking about in this committee, but…
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
There we are. Thanks.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
You have to have the money before you can spend it.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
And I'm assuming there will be a conversation then with the Llywydd on Standing Orders, and that procedural aspect of dealing with this aspect.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
You'd just leave it as one motion, I suppose.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
On that technical side of how it would work here, in the same way as we have a vote on WRIT—and correct me if I'm misinterpreting it—that sliver is now taken off that WRIT bit and added—. So, there will be a resolution in the Senedd to lay that part as well…
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Sam.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Mike, did you want to come in on this?
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Not to disappoint you, Sam, and not to frighten the Cabinet Secretary either. But, certainly, I think it's a good question, and I'd be interested in the answer as well.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Yes. Just to note, the Cabinet Secretary will be with us for two more sessions, actually, before—
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thank you very much. Sam.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thanks, that's interesting. Diolch. Rhianon.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
From a management point of view.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Can I ask, just before I bring Rhianon back in, in your experience, and you've mentioned that overprogramming of capital, and you've got the method that you've used this year where you've left some in the budget, you've overprogrammed for the last couple, and…
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Do you have a sense of how big that's likely to be this year?
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
More than likely. I'll bring Rhianon in at this point. Diolch.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Mike, diolch.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Sorry, Mike, Sam just wanted to come in with a quick question there, and I'll bring you back in after.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Sam, did you want to come in?
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thank you very much. I'll bring in Mike at this point. Diolch, Mike.
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
I think you highlighted there that decisions taken by some parts of Government do inevitably have a big impact on local government, as someone that delivers on the coalface and in different parts of the country and in so many different areas. Can you talk a…
21 January 2026Finance Committee
Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
I suppose that goes to the question of how you set budgets and how you get departments to work collaboratively with each other. You've talked in this committee before about how you've tried different things. Are any of those things working? Or have you been…