24 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Ar hyn o bryd, gyda'r cyllid sydd ar gael i ni, rydym yn darparu'r pecyn cymorth mwyaf hael y gallwn ei ddarparu. Ac nid wyf am beidio â chydnabod, wrth gwrs, y pwysau sydd ar fusnesau, fel y mae'r Aelod wedi'i ddisgrifio, ac fel rydym yn clywed o'n blychau…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Rwy’n ddiolchgar iawn am eich sylwadau, ac mae’r dreth gyngor ac ardrethi annomestig—ein dwy dreth leol—yn seiliedig, wrth gwrs, ar ôl troed yr eiddo, ac fel y cyfryw, maent yn drethi sefydlog iawn, sydd o fantais i ni, ac fel y mae Mike Hedges yn cydnabod…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Daeth yr ailbrisiad i rym bron i flwyddyn yn ôl bellach, felly byddwn yn symud i mewn i'r ail flwyddyn. Bu cynnydd yn ardrethi rhai busnesau yng Nghymru, ond fe wnaethom ddarparu cymorth trosiannol i gefnogi’r busnesau hynny. A chredaf, mewn gwirionedd, i'r…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Wel, mae diwygio eisoes yn digwydd wrth gwrs, gan i'r ailbrisiad ddod i rym ym mis Mawrth 2023. Roeddem yn cydnabod bod hynny'n cynnwys rhai materion trosiannol i fusnesau, a dyna pam y rhoesom gynllun cymorth trosiannol pwysig iawn ar waith i helpu busnesau…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Rydym ar y trywydd iawn i gyflawni’r rhaglen o ddiwygiadau a bennais ar gyfer tymor y Senedd hon, gyda nifer o welliannau cychwynnol wedi'u gwneud i gyd-fynd ag ailbrisiad 2023. Mae Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru) wedi’i gyflwyno i gyflawni’r ystod o…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Rwy’n ddiolchgar iawn am eich cwestiwn a’r gydnabyddiaeth rwy'n ei rhannu fod yn rhaid i bob haen o lywodraeth weithio gyda’i gilydd i wneud y gorau o’r cyfleoedd adnewyddadwy sydd gennym yma yng Nghymru. Credaf fod ynni gwynt arnofiol ar y môr yn un maes…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Rwy’n cael trafodaethau rheolaidd gyda chyd-Weinidogion ar gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru, ac rydym yn cynorthwyo awdurdodau lleol i gynyddu cynhyrchiant ynni adnewyddadwy drwy gefnogi porthladdoedd rhydd, bargeinion twf, buddsoddi mewn cynlluniau ynni ardaloedd…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I think, in and of itself, the 3.1 per cent can't do that. But when you look at the other sources of funding that local government have available to them—council tax, for example, and other ways in which they raise charges—that will certainly help. I'm not…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Well, the £800 million that goes to mental health is still the largest area of spend within the NHS. It's protected and ring-fenced, but, actually, what you do see in a number of health boards is that they provide additional funding over and above the…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes. So, those grants come from individual ministerial portfolios to local government. There's over £1 billion in grants, so it is quite significant. But what we asked local authorities in terms of our programme for government commitment to reduce the…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, so, progress has been very good in terms of developing our thinking. We've got a stage 2 consultation out at the moment, and it looks at a whole range of things. But I think perhaps most pertinent are the scale and the pace of reform. So, on the scale…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
It's a difficult balance to strike, isn't it, in terms of putting certain things on the face of the Bill, which then are set unless changed by further primary legislation, or allowing a level of flexibility. And flexibility will be appropriate in many cases…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
A good example I think would be the work that we're doing at the moment on the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill. So, part of that is about creating the structures for Ministers, then, to go on and make decisions around exemptions, discounts, premiums and…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes. But just to be clear that, you know, the service will be there, it's not limited by the funding.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes. That is a risk, definitely.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, the work there was led by other colleagues, but as a result of that, we do know that—you mentioned lack of awareness, that's a particular concern, so—. And people have assumptions about what's available and perhaps what is actually available might be…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, so our budget continues to be informed by the work that we did through the gender budgeting pilot. So, the next step, really, will be for us to use the learning from that to inform the review of the strategic integrated impact assessment that we…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, shall I ask the health Minister to provide a fuller note? I know that the integrated care fund is actually an example where health and local government working together has been successful, but the funding model there is different. But, on the pooled…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes. So, at the moment, around a third of people pay nothing, a third pay something up to the cap, and then a third will pay the cap. So, yes, that's something that we're exploring at the moment.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, now, we have to look afresh—. Well, not afresh. Now we need to build on the work that we’ve been doing in that space. Those are discussions that I’m having with the health Minister. But, in the immediate term, it’s really about looking at the cap for…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And it almost did in the sense that the UK Government made announcements around national insurance contributions that were then going to go into a health and care fund. So, we thought, ‘Great, the UK Government has taken a decision now and that’s the funding…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, rather than how you raise the finance and distribute it, actually what does the citizen get for that additional money—
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I know that you were very active in terms of shaping that early work as well. We did make a lot of progress in terms of considering the distributional elements of it, and also the offer. That was, I think, the most challenging bit of it actually—
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
As you say, we did a lot of work in that space, and I think you’re underplaying your own role in developing some of that as well—
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, but thinking about some of those bold things, there's the fact that we’ve provided significant funding for the basic income pilot. You can barely think of anything more preventative than that when you’re thinking about the cohort of young people involved…
