25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
We are very fortunate that we are a very small Government, and we see each other all the time. It has struck me as one of the huge differences with Whitehall particularly, but even with the Scottish Government. We all work in the same place; you bump into…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
I've had a chance to look at the committee's report on the engagement that you carried out, so I've seen the work that you did at Yr Egin and Coleg y Cymoedd, and so on. Of course, I wasn't the finance Minister at the time you were doing this work. On 17…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Diolch yn fawr. I think the report will be very timely. Because we’re a new Government, there is an opportunity in its early stages to put new ideas into the mix. There’s the whole Gordon Brown report—that’s where the council of the nations and the regions is…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
My experience in the brief time I’ve been doing it is that some of the things that you would expect to be there are definitely there and working. I’ve met with the Northern Ireland finance Minister, I have a conversation with the Scottish finance Minister…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Thank you. Chair, I'll try and start with a point I often make. The period from 2010 to 2024 wasn't uniform in our relationships with previous Governments. When I became the finance Minister in 2016, I received a telephone call from Philip Hammond, the…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Yes. Thank you. So, I raised that with him. Next week, I'll meet the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Next week, there is a FISC, Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee, meeting, so I will have a chance to raise a series of these points with him as…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
I had a meeting last week with the Exchequer Secretary. So, there are four Ministers in the Treasury and the Exchequer Secretary is the fourth in line. So, I met with him last week and we talked about a number of the issues that we've talked about today, as…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Yes, of course. Thank you. Chair, at this point—and this is ahead of 30 October, when I think a number of these assumptions will change, because we will be in possession of much better information about the current Government's approach—at the moment, what we…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
That was quite a challenge.
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
No, I think it's possible to discharge them both. As I say, at one stage, I was the Brexit Minister, as well as the finance Minister and the local government Minister, and that was quite a—
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
I don't there is a link or an alignment of that sort. First Ministers, in having to find homes for all the different responsibilities that the Welsh Government discharges, have to find a home for many different things. So, Jane Hutt is the Trefnydd, the chief…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Well, that is a really interesting contribution. I'm very happy to think a bit about it and to see whether there are things that we could do of that sort. There's always a tension between keeping what is a system under huge pressure going and stable enough to…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Thank you, Peter. I said in my first answer that the responsibility of the finance Minister is to try to make sure we spend all the money that we have, but then secondly to make sure we spend it wisely, so that we’re getting the maximum impact out of the…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Okay. Thank you, Chair. So, I’ll take the first part of the question first, then. So, from what I have seen, as you know, the Welsh Government monitors the in-year position on a monthly basis. I’m expecting later today to see the latest set of data. It looks…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
No, exactly.
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Well, I think the fiscal framework has genuinely been to the benefit of Wales. We can point to significant sums of money that came to Wales as result of it, and I was the finance Minister at the time that was negotiated. David Gauke was the Chief Secretary to…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
I was indeed.
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Well, I don't have any separate priorities to those of the First Minister, as set out. The job of the finance Minister is to enable the rest of the Government to achieve the ambitions and the priorities that the Government as a whole will set out. But in…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Well, the First Minister's listening exercise resulted in her statement on the floor of the Senedd last week. That statement will shape budget preparations. It will be an important strand in the way in which we will align the ambitions that Ministers will…
25 Medi 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Craffu cyn y Gyllideb--Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Bore da, Gadeirydd. Mark Drakeford ydw i, y Gweinidog gyda chyfrifoldeb am y cyllid a'r iaith Gymraeg. Gyda fi bore yma mae Andrew Jeffreys, cyfarwyddwyr y Trysorlys yma yn y Llywodraeth; ac Emma Watkins, is-gyfarwyddwr gyda chyfrifoldebau am y cyllid.
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Diolch yn fawr. Diolch i aelodau'r pwyllgor hefyd.
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
There is stuff in the impact assessment that does refer to the UNCRC articles, but maybe I can just make sure that the committee has that in a way that's more accessible. On your second and final point, for me, this is a real test of this Bill. If we don't…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you, Julie. On the first point, I'll see, maybe—. Shall we just send you a note on that?
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, I think it will be because of the concentrated expertise that it will bring to that work. As Bethan has said, we've lacked an institute that people can turn to that will have that concentrated sense of focus on this particular challenge. We know that…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Surely, yes.
