9 Gorffennaf 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Grŵp 1: Dyletswydd i ymgynghori (Gwelliannau 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17)
Diolch. Cyn i mi siarad am y gwelliannau yn y grŵp hwn, hoffwn amlinellu i'r Aelodau bwysigrwydd y ddeddfwriaeth hon a phwrpas y Bil. Rydym yn dod â chysondeb, hyblygrwydd a chynnydd i sicrhau bod trethi lleol yn parhau i fod yn effeithiol ac yn weithredol am…
9 Gorffennaf 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Rheoliadau Deddf Treth Trafodiadau Tir a Gwrthweithio Osgoi Trethi Datganoledig (Cymru) 2017 (Diwygio Atodlen 5) 2024
Dim ond i ddweud diolch yn fawr iawn i Mike Hedges, yn enwedig am y sylwadau terfynol yna a wnaed o safbwynt mwy personol, ond hefyd iddo ef a'i bwyllgor am y gwaith y maent wedi'i wneud, yn enwedig wrth nodi'r camgymeriad drafftio bach hwnnw. Fel y dywedais…
9 Gorffennaf 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Rheoliadau Deddf Treth Trafodiadau Tir a Gwrthweithio Osgoi Trethi Datganoledig (Cymru) 2017 (Diwygio Atodlen 5) 2024
Diolch, Llywydd. Mae'r rheoliadau gerbron y Senedd yn ddarostyngedig i'r weithdrefn gadarnhaol ddrafft. Os yw'r Senedd yn eu cymeradwyo heddiw, rwy'n disgwyl iddynt ddod i rym ddydd Gwener. Rwy'n ddiolchgar i'r Pwyllgor Deddfwriaeth, Cyfiawnder a'r…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Great. Diolch yn fawr.
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes. We chose that as a particular one because it's not controversial, it's relatively small, it's geographically defined. It was the ideal tax to 'take the test around the track' I think Mark Drakeford used to say, when he was responsible for this. But…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Well, I'm looking forward to a more positive hearing on this. And also we've done so much work over the years. And indeed, actually, it's less about the policy itself at this point, the vacant land tax—
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Well, it's certainly on my list of things that I think would make a good dispute. I think that it will be important to try and engage a new UK Government on this particular issue. We were making some progress up until around February 2019. I think that's the…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I might ask officials to come in on this point as well. Generally speaking, we would get consequentials when reserve funding is provided to UK Government departments in areas that are devolved. I think that's largely because we're facing the same pressures in…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And to be fair, I'm grateful to the Welsh Conservatives on this, because I know that you've said in the Senedd that you would support that capital-to-revenue switch as well, just to put that on record.
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Definitely.
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
We didn't really get to the bottom of that, but I think it's partly about the relationship between Treasury and Whitehall departments and us as a Government. So, quite understandably Treasury will want to sit down with the Minister and officials will discuss…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Last year we made our first ever request for that switch, but it was denied by Treasury, so it's not something that we've been able to do. All we get is what comes out of the agreements that Treasury has made with Whitehall departments. So, for example, in…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, so it's lost 23 per cent of its value since—. So, both the Wales reserve and our borrowing powers have lost 23 per cent of their value since they were originally set.
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, we're asking, actually—. And the borrowing point as well. Local authorities have that prudential borrowing. That's something that we would, ultimately, like to see. In the first instance, I think even just increasing the limits in line with inflation…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, one thing I'd really like to pursue is the point about late funding. So, anything that comes through very late in the financial year, we should be able to carry that into the next year without this kind of—. At the moment it's 10 per cent of the reserve…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I do have some sympathy with Treasury Ministers, in the sense that they will need to get all of the figures from Whitehall departments before, for example through the supplementary estimate processes, they're able to provide us with our final figures. So, I…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Well, we haven't yet raised a formal dispute, so in that sense the process itself hasn't been tested. That's partly because of the lack of engagement by the UK Government on some of these issues and the lack of consistent presence in the Treasury to have…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, there's no way of knowing how much of that is going to be new money. There have been other examples as well where we've been told that there would be additional funding; for example, the £600 million boost for councils in England. We were told that the…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
That's part of that challenge, really, about not having that independent arbiter as well. But one thing that we would want is a review of the Network Rail processes underpinning project investment decisions so that there is greater transparency. We think that…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
That's kind of after the event, in many ways.
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Shall I perhaps bring in Julian on the information that we get and when we get it, and particularly, for example, the transparency tables and so on?
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And also local government and others, the third sector. They tell us, 'If we don't know what things are looking like before Christmas, then we are going to have to start sending out redundancy notices.' That's absolutely not the place that we would want to be…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, we'll always try and do things as quickly as we can.
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Standing Orders, as you know, require us to write to the Business Committee and yourselves ahead of the summer. I suppose that might have been a relic from the day when we had spring budgets. We always write with our best guess as to what might happen and…
3 Gorffennaf 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Before the general election was called, we were working through all the possible scenarios that we could find ourselves in this year, and some of them were potentially not even being able to finalise a budget in this financial year. We looked at every…
