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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Anthony, did you want to come in, from a finance aspect, with your—?
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Fantastic. Great to see everybody here. We've got a lot to get through in an hour, so brevity would be appreciated. To start off with, I'd like to understand the funding available to local authorities in Wales in 2025-26 and the provision of the local…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
And welcome, Andrew, you've managed to link up, so that's good. Could you introduce yourself please, Andrew?
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Thank you very much, Nia.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
If we go to Nia.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Then if we go online—.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Fantastic.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Fantastic. A warm welcome. Anthony.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
We'll move on to the third item, our first substantive item of the morning, which is the evidence session No. 5. We have three of our witnesses with us and we're expecting one more online when he's able to get to us. So, we'll start, and, hopefully, Andrew…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
So, we will move on.
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Papers to note
—is papers to note. Happy to note the two papers that we have? Yes, that's fine. Okay, great.
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Papers to note
So, the second thing we will be mentioning this morning—
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
A very warm welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee. Everyone is present, so there have been no apologies this morning. The meeting will be broadcast live on Senedd.tv and a Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. I just want to ask whether…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
Therefore, I will ask, under Standing Order 17.42(ix), to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting. Is everyone in agreement? Yes. Thank you; we'll go into private. Thank you.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Thank you very much for your time and your expertise and for coming in to speak to us. It's very important. And thank you very much for your written evidence as well. It is valuable and it is appreciated. There will be a transcript for you to be able to check.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Thank you very much for your time this morning.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Thank you very much.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
And the final word to Simon.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Okay. Victoria. Sorry, it's an interesting question, I think.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Great. Just finally then, as we wrap up, other than saying, 'Please can we have more money', what would you like—? What would be your priority, or what should the Welsh Government prioritise? What would be your key ask, if you were talking directly to the…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Yes.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Probably back to you, Simon.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Mike.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Who would like to take that? Do you want to take that, Simon?
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 4
Yes, if you want to address that, or I'll move on to Mike Hedges otherwise. No. That's fine. Mike, I'll bring you in. There we are.
