21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Thank you, Chair. For a start, I don't think there's any disagreement: we know that there is not the same level of funding as there should have been, and we are more than a penny worse off. This is a fundamental matter for Wales and a fundamental matter for…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
I'll look forward to that. Thank you very much, Minister.
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Thank you. I think the last point is really important and that would be really useful. Moving on, the Bevan Foundation has advocated adopting a distribution analysis approach—and there was publication of a document, if I recall—and that there is scope to do…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
And I think it would be really interesting to understand that because, obviously, the single advice centre, in its very name, would purport to be identifying everything around the individual, with all of the things that you've spoken about, and many others as…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
—pandemic preparedness. Thank you, Chair. In regard to the Bevan Foundation statement that the Welsh Government support schemes are 'separate, discrete and quite obscure', in their words, what more can be done to create a more streamlined, accessible system?…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
I think that would be very welcome, Minister, in respect of—
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
That's encouraging to hear, and I totally agree with the last point. Do you think the budget gives sufficient investment, Minister, to ensure that small businesses have the digital infrastructure? It was something that was brought up this week by different…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Thank you, and I'll look forward to that, Minister. You've partially gone into this, but how would you respond to the questioning around the draft budget? Because it was obviously published prior to the omicron variant metamorphosis. So, what consideration…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Thank you, and we'd be very interested in that in this committee. Moving on, in regard to policies supporting business within the pandemic, what could Welsh Government do further to demonstrate how allocations made in the draft budget align with the strategic…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Thank you, Minister. In regard to mitigation of data on free school meals no longer being available as a key indicator into calculating the local government settlement, how will that be mitigated for?
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
And you're not minded to do that in terms of that lack of input in this regard from the WLGA. They haven't raised it, so it's not on the agenda. Is that correct?
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
I presume that's disaggregated, and do you feel that a review of the distribution of funding formula is needed—yes or no?
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Thank you, Chair. Regarding levels of reserves held by councils within the context of uncertainty and the incorporation into baseline budget of previous COVID spends, what analysis or assessment has been undertaken to understand those levels of reserves held…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Very briefly, in regard to that incorporation into baseline budgets and the long-term anticipated and projected impact and effects of COVID across the public sector and beyond, what is your view, Minister, in regard to sufficiency around that uplift in the…
21 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Trafod Rheoliadau Treth Gwarediadau Tirlenwi (Cyfraddau Treth) (Cymru) (Diwygio) 2021
Thank you. Just a quick question around your comments, Minister, around the distributional analysis, which is welcome. There was felt to be a need for more meat on the bones around that, but obviously in regard to the context that Andrew has set out, the…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Costau byw
Mae argyfwng costau byw Llywodraeth Dorïaidd y DU yn taro pobl Cymru'n galed. Mae'n argyfwng, ac ydy, mae'n un a welwyd yn agosáu. Ond mae'n rhaid inni gydnabod mai'r Llywodraeth Dorïaidd sy'n gyfrifol am yr ysgogiadau ardrethiannol a fydd yn gwneud…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol
Diolch, Lywydd a Gweinidog. Diolch am y diweddariad hwnnw. Yn anffodus, mae 1,160 o bobl wedi marw ym Mwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Aneurin Bevan gyda marwolaethau'n gysylltiedig â COVID-19. Mae dinasyddion Islwyn a Chymru wedi aberthu cymaint yn ein brwydr barhaus…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol
2. A wnaiff y Gweinidog roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am nifer y cleifion sy'n mynd i'r ysbyty gyda COVID-19 ym Mwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Aneurin Bevan? OQ57479
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Okay, thank you very much, Chair.
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Okay, thank you. So, there may be a need for greater messaging around this. Sara, I don't know if there's anything, or Ben—
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
I think that would be very useful, and I think, as a tool, as Mike has said, it is an additionality into the suitcase to provide that equity within that framework. I don't know if there are any final thoughts on what this could be used—
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Mike would be—.
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
So, this can only be used for loans and investments in the private sector. It has to be repaid to, I believe, the UK Treasury. So, Welsh Government is required to pay quite a large proportion back of that, I think, to the Treasury. So, it would help to…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
That sounds very proactive. Thank you, Sara. My final question, Chair, is with regard to financial transactions capital allocations in the final 2022-23 budget. Welsh Government has mentioned that it's planning to allocate financial transactions capital in…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Okay. Thank you very much. And my—
