20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I think, Chair, this is a presentational question, rather than a substantive question, so if I just explain what that means, really. In the last Senedd, obviously, we had a commitment to spend £100 million for school standards over the course of the Senedd…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, we have Owain's team. Owain, you can perhaps—[Inaudible.]—specific to that.
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, on the second point—that's the easiest point to answer quickly—the answer to that is 'yes', the £18 million is all new money, if you like. In terms of the position going forward, we're doubling our direct investment in ALN with an extra £14 million, to…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. It's a technical reason, actually. So, the budget appears over-budget, if I can put it like that, because we know that there'll be future transfers made in the next supplementary budget, which is coming out in mid February, and they will basically cover…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, in addition to what I've—. I've just described quite significant sums of money to you there in terms of professional learning, and that will be available for the whole range of professional learning for teachers. There's a whole new emphasis, as you…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, on the curriculum specifically, we put £8.3 million extra into last year's budget, and we're maintaining that funding for this coming financial year. And, on top of that, we just recognise how important learner progression is as part of that set of…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, school leaders work very constructively, in my experience, with local education authorities in the questions around budgets, and there are pressures that everyone is trying to navigate. As I say, for this year and with those reserves, that will provide…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, the answer to your question is 'yes'. The finance Minister and I meet regularly, obviously, to discuss this and we met together with the finance sub-group of the WLGA in the autumn of last year to talk specifically about the question of school funding…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, on that point specifically, you'll recall that we had a ventilation fund in the autumn term, which schools and local education authority partners have been deploying to make the sorts of changes needed to improve ventilation—[Inaudible.] For example…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, we did do that last year, as you say. We supported schools in relation to those fees and provided quite significant extra funding into schools to address the new pressures they faced in terms of staffing and other resourcing as a consequence of having…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Some of the answer to that is in the points we've just been discussing, really, about the overall availability of the funding. So, there were large sums of money in both those financial years that were non-recurring. So, we spent that. Some of it, for…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay.
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
—so that I can close a blind, which is about to mean that I can't see anything?
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Chair, could I ask for your indulgence for one second—
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay. So, the standard contribution that the Welsh Government makes to most kinds of projects in this space against the—[Inaudible.]—mainstream local government-maintained school is 65 per cent of the budget, when the rest is met by our partners. But, on the…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I'm just conscious I didn't touch on the last point, which is the, 'What's new and what's not new?', basically. Forgive me. So, clearly, as in any year, there are some commitments next year that are continuations of existing approaches. And in the COVID…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
There are two parts, Chair, to that question. So, the first question is: what is the most instructive, comparatively, budget to compare with, really? And I just listed to you a number of ways in which, in the last financial year, there was additional funding…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay. Can you hear me now?
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
[Inaudible.]
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I was just giving an example. I don't want to highlight this as being the key thing in the budget, as it were, but, for the first term of this academic year—so last term—and we've extended it for this term—we've placed 400 newly qualified teachers in schools…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, you're going to struggle to find an education Minister who is going to sit here and tell you that he or she couldn't usefully make creative and productive use of additional funding. So, there's that general caveat. And, I dare say, perhaps the most…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
In terms of the effect on the budget of the overall pandemic, Wales in 2020-21 and in this financial year has received, obviously, additional allocations from the UK Government to deal with the many, many challenges that COVID has brought right across the…
20 Ionawr 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23—sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd, am y cyfle i drafod y gyllideb ddrafft gyda'r pwyllgor y bore yma.
19 Ionawr 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Craffu ar gyllideb ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Y Gymraeg
Diolch i chi. Hwyl fawr.
19 Ionawr 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Craffu ar gyllideb ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Y Gymraeg
Mae dwy ran, onid oes? Y rhan gyntaf yw beth mae'r Llywodraeth yn San Steffan wedi datgan o ran cyllideb i S4C yn y cyfnod cyntaf, ac mae'r setliad yn bositif yn hynny o beth. Rŷn ni'n cydweithio beth bynnag gyda'r BBC a gydag S4C a chyda chyrff cyfryngau…
