8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 4
Okay, thanks. I wondered if anyone else was coming in. The Bevan Foundation said in its response to the committee consultation about the draft budget for 2025-26 that many Welsh benefits, including educational maintenance allowance, have not increased with…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 4
Thank you very much. This is to everybody: how can the Welsh Government do more with the resources it has to extend eligibility for free school meals? Would the reintroduction of free school meals in holidays have a significant enough impact to reduce…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 4
Diolch, Cadeirydd. To Victoria, your response to the draft budget said that the draft budget was 'a regrettable missed opportunity to address the fundamental issues with childcare in Wales'. Can you expand on this? What could the Welsh Government have done to…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 3
You say income tax is progressive, but we know it isn't, don't we? Income tax is so easy to avoid. People don't get paid by income, they get paid by dividend. They've got so many means of reducing their income tax. The advantage of council tax is you can't up…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 3
And finally from me, the Welsh Government published their fourth tax policy report this year. What is your overall view of how ambitious and effective the Welsh Government has been using existing powers?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 3
Wales has benefitted from the freezing of tax bands, hasn't it? If tax bands had gone up, then Wales would have been disadvantaged. Keeping the previous tax bands has put more people into each of the tax bands, which has benefitted Wales compared to the rest…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 3
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Do you have any views on which areas the OBR should focus on to improve Welsh tax forecasts?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 3
Productivity within hospitals reduced dramatically from 2002 to 2014-15. They stopped producing the figures after that, but I've no reason to believe it's not continued to reduce. But productivity is something we don't talk about enough, and the expectation…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 3
Do you think the budget takes the opportunity to invest in initiatives that are preventative or transformational?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 3
Is there a clear view from the budget documentation and the allocations made of how the Welsh Government has prioritised revenue spending and what it's seeking to achieve with these changes?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 2
Okay, thank you.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 2
I unmuted myself and the host unmuted me and I ended up being muted again. Apologies for that. Just one comment. I know that hospitality and care are talking about difficulty in recruitment. Have you looked at that, or do you want to make a comment on that?…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 2
Thank you. Your Welsh taxes outlook provides an initial assessment of successive forecast differences for the Welsh rates of income tax for 2022-23. What have you learnt from this exercise and how will it inform your forecasts in the future?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 2
Okay, thank you very much. The Office for National Statistics reported that reduced responses to many surveys, such as the labour force survey, has increased variability of outputs. You also mentioned the time lag associated with the survey of personal…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. How sensitive is your modelling to your productivity growth rate forecasts and how could this impact WRIT forecasts? Don’t you see the increase in national insurance being an incentive for people to increase productivity, and don’t you see…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 2
You're talking about a number of sectors there where people are being paid the minimum wage. Are you suggesting the company is going to pay less than the minimum wage?
8 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 2
I’ll make two points. Surely, a lot of the problems with wages rising or not is due to a shortage of skills, and I think, in areas where there’s a skills shortage, won’t it have no effect whatsoever because there’ll still be a battle over getting people with…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Gomisiwn y Senedd
Mae yna anhawster hefyd a chost ychwanegol ynghlwm wrth logi coets â mynediad ar gyfer cadeiriau olwyn. Golyga nad yw ysgolion sydd angen cerbyd â mynediad ar gyfer cadeiriau olwyn yn debygol o ymweld oherwydd y gost. A yw'r Comisiwn wedi ystyried cefnogaeth…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Diolch.
8 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Diolch am yr ateb hwnnw. Pe bai'n union yr un faint bob awr, ni fyddai problem. Fel rhywun sy'n teithio'n rheolaidd ar hyd yr M4 rhwng cyffyrdd 43 a 38, bob dydd rwy'n gweld tagfeydd traffig rheolaidd ar adegau prysur, gyda cherbydau'n llonydd neu'n symud yn…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
4. A wnaiff yr Ysgrifennydd Cabinet ddatganiad am lif traffig ar yr M4 rhwng Cyffordd 43 a Chyffordd 38? OQ62048
6 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o weddill y cyfarfod
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Is that agreed? Yes.
6 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Item 7, papers to note. Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill. The letter from the Cabinet Secretary is in response to our letter of 30 November, which sought further…
6 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Cytundeb Cysylltiadau Rhyngsefydliadol
Item 6, notification of correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. Correspondence from the Welsh Government: inter-ministerial groups. We have a letter and a written statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning…
6 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Offerynnau sy’n cynnwys materion i gyflwyno adroddiad arnynt i’r Senedd o dan Reol Sefydlog 21.2 neu 21.3 - trafodwyd eisoes
Thank you very much.
