18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Well, yes, because there are some things that you can't do within RIS if it was only revenue funding. The reason—gosh, it's probably a year ago now—that I asked for that switch from revenue to capital, because I don't have a huge amount of capital, and that…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Absolutely I do. We've got revenue and capital in there. I think that's really important as well, because some of the schemes definitely need capital, and some of the stakeholders were telling us that that needs to be the way forward. So, if you look at what…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Yes.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Again, it had to come from somewhere, and if you look at the rural investment schemes, there’s still £100 million in the rural investment schemes, which I think will certainly help a great deal. I go back to what I was saying: I could have cut TB funding, I…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Well, the thing that came out most in the assessments was that we needed to maintain it. That was the absolute core thing. I’m saying, ‘Oh, I’ve protected it’—don’t think it was easy. It was probably one of the hardest things to maintain that budget. You try…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
We did very high-level impacts right across Government and within the department. So, officials did different impact assessments to show, and, obviously, if you're maintaining any budget at the same level year after year, then it will have an impact, but you…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
I don't underestimate the impact of inflation and what I said before about fertiliser, fuel and food. We know that the agricultural sector was significantly impacted by inflation, and, of course, BPS has not risen in that challenging time, and I've not been…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Morning.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Well, I go back to what I was saying, that it's bound to have an impact; it can't not have an impact when you're talking £50 million—10 per cent—out of a budget. But by protecting the BPS, by making sure that we were able to take through the Habitat Wales…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Over the next 12 months?
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Yes, yes. As a Government, we are given a budget that we invest on behalf of those taxpayers to make sure we have all the services. So, I go back to what I was saying: it's really important that people understand that, whilst they perhaps wouldn't see farming…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
So, it's not farmers' money, is it?; it's taxpayers' money, and, as a Government, we are given—
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
So, you're absolutely right. I was thinking that I've never had a budget scrutiny like this before because, as you say, in your day, when you were in this portfolio, and in the last few years for me, that funding lands from Brussels straight into your budget…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Absolutely.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Well, I haven't really—. What I've been doing is dealing with the reductions I've had to look at with my budget. The one area that I have constantly raised with the finance Minister in regard to my budget is if—and I'm touching wood here—we were to have an…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
So, you're right, it is a significant change. Leaving the European Union has forced us, if you like, to deal with particularly the agricultural budget and the fisheries budget in a different way. So, we've still been able to support the things that we would…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
I don't think it was deprioritised. Somebody has to take the biggest cut. There aren't that many departments within the Government that had to make those savings. Every Minister had to make savings. As you know, we had to reshape our plans quite radically…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Thank you. Well, obviously, this has been one of the most challenging budgets—well, probably the most challenging—I've ever had to face as a Minister and for us as a Government. I think the UK Government have failed to provide us with the funding that we need…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Y Gweinidog Materion Gwledig a Gogledd Cymru, a'r Trefnydd
Thank you. Lesley Griffiths, Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd.
16 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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16 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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