19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay, great. Thank you very much. Just moving on to some other specifics, then, in terms of the Welsh Government's budget, the draft budget does look to invest around £1 billion of capital funding into low-carbon social homes. I'm just wondering whether you…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thanks. And just one more thing on free school meals before I move on to my other points, in terms of value for money as well, obviously pointing to a few points that Mike Hedges questioned there, about future costs and that sort of thing. Free school meals…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
And just to—
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Do you think, with parents having to do less and less for their children and therefore taking less and less responsibility for their children, are there any long-term risks of that just becoming the norm—more and more parents taking less responsibility for…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Yes, thanks, Chair, and good morning, Dr Winckler. Thanks for your time this morning—I appreciate it. I've got a few specific items to just gather your thoughts on, first around free school meals. I believe the Bevan Foundation described the free-school-meal…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Chair, I'm conscious of time. Thanks, appreciate it.
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
I'm just reminded, Chair, that time is running quickly; I'm just trying to be as fast as I can here. I think it would be interesting to consider that. Yes, there's Government investment, but Government investment can only go so far, and regulation's okay, but…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Yes. I suppose the old phrase, 'Put your money where your mouth is'—. There's a lot of talk; I'm not entirely sure the budget follows a bunch of that talk, as the correlation perhaps isn't as straight as people want it to be. Just going back also to talk…
19 Ionawr 2022 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
All right. Thanks, Chair, and thanks, Alex and Sophie, for joining us this morning; I really appreciate your time. And thanks also for sending through your evidence paperwork as well. I was drawn, actually, to—. I love a good table, and I was drawn to the…
18 Ionawr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan Weinidog yr Economi: Economïau Rhanbarthol Cryfach
Diolch, Gweinidog, am eich datganiad chi heddiw. Roeddech chi'n sôn am 11 mlynedd o briodas. Rwyf i wedi bod yn briod am 13, ac rwy'n siŵr nad yw arwyddocâd y rhif hwnnw mor anlwcus ag y mae rhai'n ei awgrymu. Ond, i fynd yn ôl at eich datganiad chi, roeddwn…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Anghydraddoldebau iechyd
Mae gennych chi'r Sam anghywir, mae'n ddrwg gennyf.
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Thanks, Chair. Just two quick questions. The first is in relation to a point I raised yesterday, or—the days all merge into one—in a Plenary session, anyway, about the ability of the funding formula for local authorities to take into account our ageing…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
It's a fair point, but I think the challenge that I'm trying to paint is that local authority leaders, councillors, they're every year facing a taxation decision, and Welsh Government Ministers don't seem to want to face that same decision. They set a level…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Did you have your hand up then, Rebecca? Sorry.
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Just one more quick question, sorry, Chair—unless Rebecca wants to come back in, and then I'll ask my question.
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Thanks for those additional points, and I will agree to a certain extent. In the evidence provided by the WLGA, they do point to cuts to some services of around 40 per cent over this time. So, whilst you're right in that they've had to be creative, and that's…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
I'm just doing the maths, sorry—the £250 million gap and what that effect is on council tax to try and plug that gap. Granted, another way of dealing with that is just stopping doing some stuff—cutting some services—and that might be something that councils…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Sorry, so then in terms of the potential of having to increase council tax by 20 per cent, whilst there may be some jiggling around with some numbers—. Well, as you may want to see some of those reduce, I guess local government might come back and say…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
So, on that point around future council tax implications, to look at the draft budget, which you've obviously published, in the three-year funding to local government generally, compared to what local government say they need, there is a £250 million gap…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Not today, Minister, but good try. But in terms of that accountability, it's a really important point, because you probably heard in discussions earlier I raised the point with the council leaders about it being them every single year having to stand up and…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2—y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Thanks, Chairman, and morning, Minister. I know you don't want to talk about council tax so much, but, I'm sorry, I'll be asking a couple of questions around that. First of all, more of a general question, and then perhaps I'll move on to more specific ones…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru (CLlLC)
I'm really sorry. A quick one on the council tax collection rates. There's quite a range of percentages there, from 97.5 per cent in Neath Port Talbot down to 91 per cent in Blaenau Gwent. I wouldn't have thought demographically that they're vastly different…
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru (CLlLC)
Thank you, Rich. Can I ask one more quick question, Chair? Is that okay?
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru (CLlLC)
Yes, and that's the point I'm trying to make as well. So, Richard, do you want to say something?
12 Ionawr 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2022-23: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru (CLlLC)
Do you want to come back, Anthony, before Rich comes in? Yes.
