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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
I guess there's a sweet spot, isn't there, where the investment makes sense, and a point where it no longer makes sense to continue that. On the commercial side of land transaction tax, you're forecasting a reduction in the revenue from that particular tax. I…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
Thank you. The Welsh Government tax policy report states that additional land transaction tax forecast revenues are included as a result of additional resources being invested in the Welsh Revenue Authority and their work. Could you outline how you have…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
I guess it hasn't happened at the same pace as, perhaps, October would've expected. Do you think that's fair?
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
Thank you. Do you think the slower-than-expected reduction in base rates is going to significantly change your forecast that you've put forward here?
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. I'm going to move on to some more specific tax policies from the Welsh Government—first of all, the land transaction tax, and then I'll also ask questions on the landfill disposals tax as well. In your forecast, you have outlined expected…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. It comes on the back of Mike Hedges's questions around your forecasting tools and abilities. With Government creating fiscal rules and then seemingly changing them or ignoring them, I wonder what that does to your forecasting ability and…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. Sam.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
Thanks.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 2
Yes, just to quickly supplement the comment there in terms of the relative impact on lower pay sectors. You described the care sector or the hospitality sector, for example, and Wales would have a disproportionately larger number of people in those lower pay…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Establishment of a school of dentistry in Bangor
I'm pleased to co-submit the Member debate today with Siân Gwenllian, but also with Llyr Gruffydd. I'd like to give particular credit to Siân Gwenllian for her continued persistence with this issue, and I think she deserves a lot of credit for regularly…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you for your response, Cabinet Secretary. You will be aware, of course, of the significant worry and concern that many organisations, and the third sector charities in particular, have around the announcement by the UK Labour Government of the national…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
8. What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the financial viability of the voluntary sector in Wales? OQ62064
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I'm grateful to Lesley Griffiths for raising this question in the Chamber here this afternoon. I certainly welcome the focus on improving transport links across north Wales, and as you pointed out, Cabinet Secretary, those links into north-west England, which…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: Port of Holyhead
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for bringing the statement forward today, I guess, at the earliest opportunity, for the Senedd to hear. As you rightly point out, the significance of the port can't be underestimated: it's…
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Topical Questions
I'm grateful to Mabon ap Gwynfor for bringing this question to the Senedd here today. I'm grateful, Cabinet Secretary, for your response to Mabon ap Gwynfor just now as well. Also, I just wanted to put on record again my gratitude to those health and care…
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Questions to the First Minister
I’m grateful to Jane Dodds for raising this question in the Chamber here today, because I’m sure far too many of us around this Chamber have similar horror stories to that which Jane Dodds just outlined. Indeed, one of my constituents, Mr Binns, shared with…
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Short Debate: The future of local healthcare in rural Wales
I'm grateful to James Evans for tabling this short debate for today as well. Two points I just want to make, briefly. The first is in relation to general practice, and what we've seen across Wales in the last 12 years is more than 100 GP surgeries closing…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
It's an interesting intervention. Clearly the Member has forgotten again that Welsh Government is responsible for funding councils here in Wales, so councils up and down Wales are having to deal with those challenges with a Welsh Government funding formula…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
I do apologise for not looking over there. I'll take the intervention.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
I'm grateful for the intervention from the Member for Clwyd West, because Janet Finch-Saunders was also keen to highlight this point about the lack of announcements for the rail investment.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you to everybody for taking part in this important debate here this evening in the Senedd. Alun Davies was unusually correct when he said in his opening remarks that a budget debate is important because it…
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Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
Can I thank the Chair of the Petitions Committee for opening today's debate on fair and adequate resourcing of general practice in Wales, and the committee as a whole for considering this really important petition that Lewis Williams, as you rightly pointed…
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Topical Questions
Can I thank Sioned Williams also for raising this important question in the Chamber here today? And I associate myself with the comments raised by Members in this place already. It particularly piqued my interest because yesterday, of course, Cabinet…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Wales organisations—Escalation update
Thank you for your statement here today, Cabinet Secretary. May I first of all associate myself with your opening remarks and give credit to all those working in our health services in Wales and recognise the difference that they are making every day to…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I'd like to call for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for transport, who I'm really pleased is able to join us here this afternoon, particularly a statement on council funding for road maintenance and potholes. You'll be aware that, last week…
