17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
So, one of the elements in this set of four new grants is the pupil development grant, for example. So, in effect, that will be ring-fenced. The funding is for formula funding and it will be passported to schools, so there's no question there of underspend…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, you call it 'lumped together', I call it a partnership approach between local authorities, but I think that's an important point, because I think there are ways in which, by providing some more flexibility and less onerous approaches—I hope there is…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, if that was the only thing we were doing in schools to address those concerns, then that might be a fair argument, but it absolutely is not the only thing we are doing in schools, so—. I'm not going to speak on behalf of another Minister on choices that…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
That's in Lynne's portfolio.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
We'll let you have whatever we can as quickly as we can.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, just to be clear, I have just described to you the ways in which I have not cut school grants and that, in fact, has been the entire purpose of the choices that we've made elsewhere in my budget this year, so just to clarify that point. I recognise that…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay. Well, I set out in December exactly what I'm doing in response to those concerns, so I think that's probably the best place to start in terms of looking at what I plan to do. So, just the two main points, I suppose, in this area that we are—. There is…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes, do you mean in addition to what I said in December?
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, we have an ongoing dialogue, don't we, with local authority partners on a continuous basis, and I meet regularly with education cabinet members—this is kind of a pretty ongoing discussion, really. I don't think anyone isn't alive to the fact that there…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, the position on the last data that's been published on reserves is coming up to a year old, isn't it? So, we will have new data in March on school reserves, I think, and they have been high, haven't they? They've been high as a consequence of our…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, the intention, as you know, from the grant amalgamation is that some of the aspects of the funding I provide is for specific reform programmes. Some of it is for, effectively, additional staffing, some of it is around initiatives for standards in…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
In what sense?
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, the picture varies between local authorities, and I know that councils will be working hard to minimise the impact on schools of the choices that they have to make. But there will be consequences in schools. One of the choices I've made, for example…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, you know, I suppose it's the same set of answers to the question that I've just given to you, really. We will do everything we can to prioritise core front-line services. Our settlement as a Government is simply not sufficient to meet all the pressures…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, there are two aspects to your question. One relates to the revenue support grant and one relates to other support that is provided more directly from the education budget for some elements of reform that you were, I think, alluding to in your question…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. Absolutely. I'll see if I can give it to you now, actually, if you want, but—. No, I'll write to you. I think that's probably better, isn't it?
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
So, fe wnawn ni ddarparu ateb i hynny i chi.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Unless you happen to know the answer to that.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Dyw'r manylion hynny ddim gyda fi, yn anffodus, ond rwy'n hapus i—
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, it'll be published—. I haven't got the date in mind, but I think it's the end of this month, or, at the latest, the start of next month. The statement of priorities sets out our ambitions for the commission; it's the starting point for the commission…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. So, this is a question of striking the balance, isn't it, between, as you say, on the one hand the transparency that I want to provide and you will rightly be asking for about decisions taken by me as Minister, but, on the other hand, the commission is…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. Well, those conversations are, as you would expect, going on at the moment, running up to the start of the next financial year, about what the commission’s budget is going to be. So, I think it’s too early to be able to give you any meaningful…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Wel, dyw e ddim yn danfon neges. Mae rhywbeth yn gallu bod yn flaenoriaeth heb eich bod chi’n ariannu fe yn y ffordd benodol hon, felly. Ond, o ran y datganiad o flaenoriaethau, roeddwn i wedi disgwyl datgan hwnnw cyn y Nadolig, fel rŷch chi’n ei ddweud, ond…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Wel, fyddwn i ddim yn cymryd hynny fel rhywbeth. Dyw'r ffaith does dim bursary ar gael ddim yn rhywbeth sy'n golygu dydyn ni ddim yn moyn i bobl—
17 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Dwi ddim yn credu ei bod hi'n deg i ddweud hynny o gwbl, ond, eto, mae'n broses o benderfynu lle rŷch chi'n gwario'r gyllideb sydd yn fwy prin eleni na'r disgwyl—ble rŷch chi'n gwario honno. Rŷch chi yn iawn i ddweud, os edrychwch chi ar y cohort sydd yn cael…
