15 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Adroddiad y Pwyllgor Llywodraeth Leol a Thai, 'Y sector rhentu preifat'
Yn gyntaf, hoffwn gydnabod y gwaith a wnaed ar yr adroddiad hwn gan Gadeirydd y pwyllgor yn enwedig, ond hefyd gan y pwyllgor cyfan. Bûm yn aelod o’r pwyllgor am gyfnod byr, tra oedd y gwaith hwn dan ystyriaeth, ac rwy’n siŵr fod y pwyllgor hwnnw'n gweld…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol
Diolch am godi’r cwestiwn pwysig ac amserol hwn yma yn y Siambr heddiw, Hefin David. Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, fe fyddwch chi'n ymwybodol fod adroddiadau diweddar wedi dangos, erbyn 2027, y gallai nifer y plant a fydd yn ceisio asesiadau awtistiaeth ac…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Thank you. Thanks, Chair.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Thank you for that response. I guess one of the ways in which that deep poverty can be alleviated is well-educated children accessing quality jobs. Unfortunately, schools are having budget cuts where teaching assistants are being removed, but millionaires'…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
And just recently, it became clear that around 20 per cent of children are now leaving primary school, going to secondary school, who are illiterate, so we have £260 million a year spent on feeding children—some of which, of course, is absolutely needed…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Okay, thank you. And then, just a final couple of points for me about the impact of the budget on children and young people in Wales. One of the biggest expenditure items shifted within this parliamentary term, of course, has been the free schools meals…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Thank you. And just in terms of preventative spending on housing as well, things like the independent living programme, and other programmes, and this general theme of prevention, which is certainly gathering some momentum within Government, do you think…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Okay. Thank you for that. I probably must move on, but I'd be fascinated to discuss this further, perhaps another time, because one lever that they are choosing to use, which will affect those rural areas massively, is the tourism tax and that perhaps is a…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Thanks. I'm really grateful for that response. Just a final question on this theme, before I move on: of course, the best way of helping people to get out of poverty and break that cycle is access, and easy access, to well paid jobs, and that access being…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Would you, then, share the concerns that have been expressed about the implications of the national insurance increase? When we took evidence, I think it was last week, as a committee, it was shared with us, I think it was from the Institute for Fiscal…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 7
Thank you, Chair. I'm really grateful for your time this morning—it is morning still. I just want to pick up a phrase that I think you used earlier in your contribution, which I absolutely agree with, which is that we need to see more money in people's…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Thank you, Chair.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Okay. I thought Jane was going to speak then as well.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Apologies. I just want to touch on the issue of grants into social care with colleagues online. There seems to be a lack of clarity, to say the least, about some grant allocations beyond 31 March this year, which is two and a half months away. I'm just…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Thanks, Chair. I'm conscious of time, so perhaps I'll just ask a couple of quick questions.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Okay. Can I just expand on that slightly further, and perhaps I’ll come on to colleagues in social care as well in a moment? I wonder—I don’t know how we can do this as accurately as possible, but how much are we talking about that is purely a financial issue…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Yes, all right, lovely. Thanks, Chair. Just moving on, then, in terms of the budget announcements by the Cabinet Secretary in the draft budget in December, he told this committee he was satisfied there was adequate funding next year to allow in-roads to be…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Thanks.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Yes, thanks, Chair. I'm grateful for everyone's time this morning. Just on that capital piece, I don't know if you could perhaps share examples of—you mentioned the RPBs just a moment ago, but also examples of—where prudential borrowing through local…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Thank you, Chair. I just want to come back to this point around the close working between health and social services, which is good to hear. But perhaps I see it as though you're both playing the same game on the same pitch, but perhaps playing to different…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 5
Thanks, Chair. Just on this point on social care pressures, clearly you've got to get the balance right between presenting a case and being able to sustain it and deliver it and do all the right things for it, but do you think it's been understood properly…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 5
Thank you. Fair comments. Just briefly, then, you described earlier on in our time together some of the potential impacts of this funding settlement, that there may be some service changes or cuts to posts. Perhaps you could describe what that might look like…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 5
Thanks. And just on the point of sustainability, Audit Wales have said that local government is financially unsustainable over the medium term. Do you have a response on that? And do you think that that's an accurate reflection of the situation facing…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 5
Thank you, Chair. And the point that Nia’s raised, of course, that £1 million you described in Gwynedd is then a 2 per cent hit on council tax, probably—the equivalent of—which then you have to stand up in the chamber and try and justify, which I think is the…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 5
Okay, thanks. Can I just get a comment on perhaps the average expectation of council tax rises?
