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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Yes, of course. Yes. Okay. So, help me to understand, then, because you're asking the health boards to make the savings to match the difference, but you've already allocated that money, even though you've asked them to make savings to the additional—whatever…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
In this financial year.
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you, Joyce. Cabinet Secretary, if I could just ask some questions around health boards' financial positions, so, as I have understood it, there's £220 million of deficit that's been reported that health boards are in deficit by the end of this financial…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thank you. Joyce.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Joyce, do you mind if I bring Mabon in and come back to you, if that's all right with you, Joyce?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Sure. Okay. Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Joyce Watson.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
And how do you evaluate that? So, for future years' budgets, you're making sure that, in terms of how you've allocated a budget and the £30 million or whatever it is—the £3 million to women's health or £30 million for digital—. How do you check the progress…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Sure. So, capital projects are, effectively, easier to determine than perhaps some of the revenue projects.
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
—how do you arrive at that figure? How do you know how much is required to deliver the outcomes that you want? What’s the process for that?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
When you’re making allocations to different service areas, and you just talked about the £30 million for digital transformation, I think you said—
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
—inflationary pressures. So, how much of that additional £455 million do you envisage will be used to bring forward your transformation programme and what you need to change in the longer term?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Yes, perhaps we can touch on that, because, I suppose, part of the question is how much this is going to meet, in a way, those pressures that are beyond your control—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Lovely. Thank you. With that, Cabinet Secretary, you've allocated an additional £435 million to the health budget for the next financial year. That sounds a large sum of money. But how much of that is being eaten into by inflationary pressures and other…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Sorry, Nick, you're squeezed off the end of the table. I should have just checked as well that the interpretation works. So, if I can just ask for the test on that. If you can just put your finger up so I can see that you can hear. Good. Is that okay, Alex…
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Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
In that case, I move to item 2. We have the Ministers in this morning. I'd like to introduce Jeremy Miles, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, and Dawn Bowden, the Minister for Children and Social Care. I was wondering if the officials want to…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest.
Croeso, bawb. Bore da. Welcome to the Health and Social Care Committee this morning. As always, we're operating the committee bilingually, both in Cymraeg and in English. There are apologies this morning from Lesley Griffiths. I'd also like to take this…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting times
It probably won't be a surprise that I want to speak to point 3(e) of our amendment today, which calls on the Welsh Government to provide Powys Teaching Health Board with additional finance to support their situation, so that they will not move forward with…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay, well, thank you for your answer, Cabinet Secretary. Acute stroke services currently take place, of course, in Bronglais hospital in Aberystwyth, which serves large parts of my own constituency, and you will be aware that Hywel Dda Health Board are…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
2. How is the Welsh Government supporting Powys Teaching Health Board to deliver better outcomes for patients? OQ62087
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Thank you for your answer, Cabinet Secretary. The NGET have recommended the construction, of course, of a new high-voltage onshore connection between north Wales and south Wales. I wonder if you can provide any details on when we can expect further details on…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
2. What involvement did the Welsh Government have with the National Electricity System Operator about ensuring that its 'Beyond 2030' report reflects the needs of Wales? OQ62088
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Thank you for your answer, Cabinet Secretary, and I didn’t realise this was an issue being discussed in committee this morning, so I will certainly review the Record in that regard. Of course, you point out that it’s local authorities who have the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
2. How are the Welsh Government's active travel policies supporting rural communities? OQ62071
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS winter pressures
Thanks, Deputy Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary, in Powys, there are no district general hospitals, as you know; 60 per cent of my constituents receive their treatment from hospitals over the border in England. Now, today, it's revealed that Powys health…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting
In that case, we move to item 3. And I propose, under Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content? Thank you. Diolch yn fawr iawn. In that case, we move into private…
