12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
I think social care would probably be one of the greatest pressures that local government faces, and it's an ever-increasing pressure, so that will be one of the areas where we'll be continuing, I know, to have those regular meetings with local government…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
[Inaudible.]—able to provide the best possible settlement to councils, and I hope that they've recognised that. I do also want to say that it still is the case that they will have to take really difficult decisions in order to manage the budget, because the…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
According to our original assessment of the money required to continue to deliver our Homes for Ukraine supersponsor scheme in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the funding that we allocated was sufficient. However, you'll have seen the written statement from the Minister…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Indeed. I have regular bilateral meetings with all ministerial colleagues to discuss exactly these kinds of issues in terms of is the funding provided sufficient. If there are underspends emerging, then I need to understand the reason for that. This…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
I'll certainly do my best. That does lie within the portfolio of the Minister for Social Justice. I know that, as you said, the committee has done a quite in-depth piece of work on this particular issue. Just to clarify, in terms of my own responsibilities…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
I think there are two sides to this, first in relation to the RSG itself and then in relation to specific grants. I think that there are different issues in both of those. The first thing to say, really, is that obviously local government plays an important…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
I'm always in favour of giving as much certainty as we can to all partners in terms of our budgets and the length at which we set them. This is the first time since I've been in portfolio in terms of being able to set a budget that is beyond one year, because…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Yes, I would certainly say that. The kind of meetings that I have with leaders are one type of meeting, but of course colleagues meet all the time with either leaders or with cabinet members for respective portfolios on an ongoing basis. So, you'll often hear…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
I would say that our relationships are extremely strong with local government, and we do meet very frequently. So, during the pandemic, those meetings were taking place on a daily basis at some points, but they were extremely regular, obviously, in order to…
12 Ionawr 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023 - 24 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2: Y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Yes, certainly. I think the first thing to reflect on really, and just to remind colleagues, is that this settlement builds on that which was provided in previous years. So, it was last year when we undertook our three-year spending review, and this budget…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Ydy, mae hwnnw'n bwynt pwysig a diddorol iawn, mewn gwirionedd, bod yr annibynwyr yn grŵp mawr iawn, iawn o unigolion o ran llywodraeth leol. Felly, mae'n anoddach i gael y math yna o ddull strategol y byddwn ni, gobeithio, yn ei ddefnyddio o fewn ein…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn am y pwyntiau yna. Hoffwn i gydnabod y gwaith anhygoel y mae ein cynghorau ieuenctid yn ei wneud ledled Cymru a myfyrio ar rai trafodaethau y cefais i'n ddiweddar gydag Un Llais Cymru ynglŷn â'r swyddogaeth bosibl i gynghorau tref a…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Diolch yn fawr iawn am y cwestiynau yna a'r pwynt pwysig am gynrychiolaeth menywod mewn llywodraeth leol. Rydym ni'n bell iawn o'r sefyllfa y dylem ni fod ynddi o ran nifer y menywod sy'n ymgymryd â swyddogaeth cynghorwyr, ond hefyd arweinwyr y cynghorau…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn am y cwestiynau yna. O ran cabinetau, rwy'n credu mai un o'r pethau pwysig iawn y gwnaethom ni ei gyflwyno drwy'r Ddeddf llywodraeth leol ac etholiadau oedd dileu'r rhwystrau rhag trefniadau rhannu swyddi ymhlith swyddogion gweithredol…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Fe wnaf i.
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn am y sylwadau yna ac eto yn dechrau gyda'n gwerthfawrogiad o bobl sy'n cyflwyno eu hunain ar gyfer y swyddogaethau hyn, rwy'n credu mai un o'r pethau diddorol o'r arolwg cynghorwyr oedd bod cyfran fawr o'r ymatebwyr hynny wedi dweud eu…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Rwy'n credu ein bod ni wedi gwneud cynnydd da o ran hyblygrwydd drwy'r Ddeddf llywodraeth leol ac etholiadau. Gwnaeth hynny ddileu rhai o'r rhwystrau hynny drwy gyflwyno'r gallu i gael y cyfarfodydd hybrid hynny, yr ydym ni'n gwybod eu bod wedi bod yn bwysig…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn i Sam Rowlands am y cwestiynau a'r sylwadau yna. Rwy'n cysylltu fy hun yn llwyr â'i sylwadau agoriadol cychwynnol, a oedd ynghylch cydnabod a chymeradwyo ymdrechion pobl sy'n gwasanaethu bob dydd yn ein cymunedau fel cynghorwyr…
10 Ionawr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Amrywiaeth mewn Democratiaeth—Canlyniadau Arolwg
Diolch. Fel cynrychiolwyr etholedig, rydym ni mewn sefyllfa freintiedig. Mae'r bobl yr ydym ni'n eu gwasanaethu yn ymddiried ynom ni i wneud ein gorau glas drostynt. Ac er fy mod i'n sôn am lywodraeth leol heddiw, mae'r materion yn berthnasol i bob rhan o'n…
14 Rhagfyr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, we've called the budget 'a budget for hard times in hard times', which, I think, is a pretty accurate reflection. So, I think you can see which side of the spectrum it is on. But that said, I think that we can be really proud that we have laid a draft…
14 Rhagfyr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
The Christmas question from the Chair.
14 Rhagfyr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Of course.
14 Rhagfyr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
So, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has been remitted to consider how it can use its resources to incentivise and encourage greater collaboration across the research community to build bigger and stronger grant bids to increase the level of…
14 Rhagfyr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I'll ask Andrew to come in on this one, Chair.
14 Rhagfyr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
So, just to remind ourselves as well that this budget just builds on the three-year spending review, so you would have seen a lot in that three-year spending review in this space. But we are providing additional funding in some of the important areas. So, the…
