21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Okay. So, how do you feel the Welsh Government has considered the success, then, of the new booking platform take-up and impact?
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Okay. And, obviously, in terms of a supply teacher, they're not going to go to an INSET day if they're not getting paid for it, and, if they're from an agency, they won't.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
We need to have two things clear, don't we? We need to know what the gap is in terms of how many supply teachers are actually working across Wales via agencies. We don't have the 8 per cent because of the lack of data coming through to Welsh Government around…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Yes, that's fine—thank you. So, the early feedback that Welsh Government received on the booking platform from Anglesey is just as you've stated, really, isn't it? It's just waiting for that evaluation, and, if you could let us know when that evaluation will…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
I think everybody would understand that it's very difficult, because you're working in a commercial environment and we're using public money around this, and how best value that public purse is going to be is going to be a matter not just of the finance…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
And when will that be reviewed—or evaluated, sorry—in terms of being able to monitor it, because obviously as a pilot it's going to be really important to us to understand that take-up?
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Yes, okay. And we're not quite clear as to the take-up yet at the moment.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Thank you. So, I'm right, I think, in saying that the platform has been rolled out as a pilot in Anglesey.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Okay.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Chair, there is a report of National Education Union Cymru that says that around 13 per cent of agency staff have been asked to work outside of their mandate. I don't know whether you've seen or got access to that.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
And I think we hit the nail on the head about direction earlier on. Those information data gaps have to be fully understood, and we can ask schools to provide this information—it is public money. So, I think that's an important issue to pursue. I'm not so…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
In regard to that professional development and in the supporting of excellence, in terms of the plethora of different pressures and tensions that the teaching workforce and supply cover for the teaching workforce within that are suffering, how do you feel…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Sorry, Chair—just to note that the majority have been accepted, it seems.
20 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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Diolch am eich datganiad, Gweinidog. Rwy'n ymwybodol o'r effaith fawr y mae bod yn undebwr llafur wedi ei chael arnoch chi'n bersonol, a hefyd yn fy mywyd gwleidyddol fy hun. Mae Wythnos CaruUndebau yn gyfle pwysig i bob un ohonom ni gydnabod a myfyrio ar y…
20 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyfiawnder Cymdeithasol a'r Prif Chwip: Dwy flynedd ers yr ymosodiad llawn ar Wcráin a diweddariad ar y Genedl Noddfa
Gweinidog, diolch yn fawr iawn i chi am eich datganiad heddiw. Efallai fod dwy flynedd wedi mynd heibio ers ymosodiad rheibus Rwsia ar Wcráin, ond mae'r bygythiad i ddemocratiaeth a'r gwerthoedd yr ydym ni i gyd yn y Siambr hon yn eu trysori yng Nghymru a'r…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
It will be incredibly important and welcomed by third sector voluntary organisations. And if there is that mechanism in terms of local government, that will be so, so welcomed, I think, across Wales, if we can get this improved. It's been a massive issue for…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Actually, it's not a question, so, I hope, Chair, you'll forgive me.
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Sorry, in terms of the online VOA system, in terms of the robustness of those figures, perhaps we can write with the other figure question to the Minister on that. Thank you.
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay.
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you. So, my final question—. Before I go to that, there are some little discrepancies, which we can write to you with, in terms of some inconsistencies around compliance activities, but I'm not going to do that now. So, to facilitate regular…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay, thank you. You've identified additional costs to local authorities of the more regular cycle around revaluations of around about, I think, £311,000 over the appraisal period; I think those are down as opportunity costs. Will, then, the Welsh Government…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay, thank you. Moving to a more frequent valuation, will that mean more additional costs to ratepayers if the circumstances of those ratepayers are changing more frequently and if their rateable value changes more frequently—so, for example, in terms of…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Sorry, yes.
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol Bil Cyllid Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you very much, Chair. Minister, you've estimated an increase in costs of around £6.3 to £10 million for moving to more regular business rates revaluations, and I think that's mostly with the Valuation Office Agency costs. With similar changes happening…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay. Diolch. Thank you, Chair.
