16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay. Thank you. Sioned Williams.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
What evidence can you point to that we're simply not helping other budgets be cut, as devised by the Home Office, I think it would be, wouldn't it?
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay, thank you. I just wanted to look at one specific aspect of the Government's intervention in the justice system, in particular the decision to increase the amount of money for PCSOs this year. Given that this is not our responsibility and this is a very…
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Briefly.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Yes, go ahead.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay, thank you. Moving on to health inequalities, can I call Altaf Hussain in, please? Sorry, I beg your pardon; I think Ken's going to go first. Sorry. Ken. Ken Skates.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
And obviously, the voluntary sector's got hard times ahead, so clarity about when they might be able to get three-year funding would be useful.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Yes. Well, we're talking about the money at the moment.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
When do you think that might be resolved, this desire, into something concrete?
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Fine. Thank you. Could I now bring in Ken Skates, who has got some questions about the voluntary sector?
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Subject to—. We can't look into the—.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay. So, the budget you've allocated you think will be sufficient, as far as you're aware.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
There is a considerable number of people who've been granted visas who have yet to arrive. Are you expecting a large number of people to arrive? I mean, it's difficult to know how the war's going to go, but would you be able to fund it? I think we should…
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay, fine. If we could now move on to a brief question about the Ukraine humanitarian response. Sioned Williams.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
I think we need to move on, because we need to focus on the budget.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Thank you for that. But we'd like to see the figures. Moving on, Sarah Murphy has got the next question.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Given the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which criminalises people on unofficial sites, can you write to us with exactly what's been spent to date so that we can see whether the reduced capital budget is sufficient?
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Just one question from me before we move on to the next subject. The capital budget for Gypsy and Traveller sites, there is a reduction in that amount of money, and I just wondered whether that's going to produce a shortfall in demand. As we're now in quarter…
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Very good. So, if I could now bring in Jane Dodds, please.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Thank you. We'll write to the education Minister to find out. Had you finished your questions?
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay. Can I just go back to school food? I just wondered what consideration the Government's given to raising the threshold for eligibility for free school meals—you know, setting aside the universal free school meals in primary school, which obviously takes…
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay. We look forward to all 22 doing what the good ones are doing. Sarah Murphy, you're going to start us off on tackling poverty.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay. 'Claim what's yours' is very important, but only half of local authorities are passporting through automatically things like the winter fuel payments from the Welsh Government to social tenants. What are about the other half? Why are they not doing that?
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay. Thank you very much for that. I'm going to now move on to, indeed, the area of cost-of-living support measures. Sioned.
16 Ionawr 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyllideb ddrafft 2023-24: sesiwn dystiolaeth weinidogol
Okay. So, the figures that you show in the table in your written evidence, which were, with the supplementary budget, £276 million, are now £184 million. That's because of the one-off amount that was in your budget to do with the winter fuel support scheme—is…
