19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Because I've heard talk of being on a hamster wheel—that you're constantly having to reapply and then you're not getting the work done, and, at the end of the day, the service users struggle at the end of it. Anyway, sorry, Rhianon. I'll come across.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Rhianon, could I just come in before you come in on that? With regard to social care, and in particular the services that are provided through the sector organisations and their budgets being funded through tendering processes through local authorities and…
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
We heard some matters this morning, didn't we, about that in particular? So, we'd be very interested in finding out how that discussion goes.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Thank you, yes, that would be great. I'll go to Mike now.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I think, with the education Bill that came before us, it had a very wide range, and when we drilled into it, there were different aspects to that that made sense. But it's encouraging Ministers to come with that forearmed, or to make us aware of it…
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I think it just helps, from a scrutiny point of view, and from your own budget-setting aspect, if the numbers converge, then you've got a better chance of knowing how much you need to spend to make that Bill or that Act work. It would help with scrutiny, it…
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
There's a table in the draft budget, in the narrative, which shows the implementation costs of Acts, and it's significantly higher in a lot of cases than the original budget. I know we've had inflationary costs and that sort of thing, but one of the…
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Thank you. Part of what we do here in this committee is looking at regulatory impact assessments for Bills. What oversight do you have as finance Minister regarding costs included in RIAs and how do these compare to implementation costs?
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And obviously, the minute you start talking about systems and technology, then there are big prices being bandied around, and that's where, in a constrained budget, we struggle then to marry the two, the investment and where you spend your money when we're…
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Were there any discussions with possibly the Counsel General or the Minister for Social Justice around the general data protection regulation and data sharing across different organisations? Because I think, for me, it's probably one of the key things that…
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Thank you very much. Rhianon.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Or protected, or whichever way you want to look at it. [Laughter.]
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Flat. So, a real-terms cut—
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Has there been a reduction in the budget for Natural Resources Wales? Because that would have an impact on biodiversity.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, effectively it's not a cut, as such, it's just more of a real-terms cut because of the inflationary pressure on it and what impact that has, then, on work that's carried out.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I think it was more to do with it being a real-terms cut, because it's not keeping—
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Rhianon, did you want to come in?
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Mike, I think, wants to come in.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Rhianon.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And we've all heard of, and had sessions about, gender budgeting, about all that sort of thing. So, it all feeds into it, so it all helps. But, sorry, Emma.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Because that's the point—it's the implications for health, but it might have an implication, then, on social services, on transport, and it's that overarching—. It's the theme then, and then it's from that that you work out what the implication is to our…
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Okay. Sorry, Peter.
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And was that one thing in particular?
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And in financial cost, the actual quantum?
19 Ionawr 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Sorry, Peter, just on that point, which one was the largest-sized reprioritisation that you had? You talked about that one. Was it that one from Lesley Griffiths, or was it—?
