8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Short term, areas that have got moneys, I'm sure, will spend them. Local authorities have gone through 13 years of being cash strapped, the reality of austerity, and it's made a really big—. It's been a really significant challenge for every local authority…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Well, that's generous of you.
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
I've sought a meeting with Dehenna Davison. I read the article that she wrote where she said historians will look back on this as a giant leap forward in levelling up. I don't quite share her view, but I've not actually managed to secure any time in her busy…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Well, look, local authorities are pressing the UK Government for clarity on whether they can use this money to address essential skills more broadly. If there was clarity in that, we could look at how best to use the money and how that could be used to…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Well, if it had been designed with us, and if you had the ability to not use Multiply for a single purpose, and if it was not just about numeracy but was about essential skills, you could do something with it. But it comes back to the lack of willingness to…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Bore da, Dr David. I think the Multiply programme is a significant problem. It's a deliberate transgression into a plainly devolved area, and I don't think it's going to deliver significant benefits to citizens in Wales. It cuts across and competes with our…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
I'm not sure there's something you'd describe as a plan. The approach, I think, from the UK Government is that, within some meetings, some Ministers acknowledge that it's a reality that there are jobs that are going to go—the 1,000 jobs at Welsh higher…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
I’ll answer the last question first. We regularly have explained in direct ministerial engagement, in correspondence, and between officials, that there is a gap that is being created, and there is not the budget to fill it in, and we’ve got the fund that…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
It’s really hard, because of the deliberate design of the fund, and that’s a problem not just for the Welsh Government but local authorities themselves as well. We’ve tried to maintain a group of stakeholders to understand what’s going on. The strategic forum…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
I think it's very hard to see how transformational change will be delivered. We've gone through before about when the pilot rounds, the community renewal fund, for the SPF was introduced and the levelling-up funds. The levelling-up funds are discrete bids…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
The problem was that we were denied a meaningful role in discussing how the funds would be delivered. We wrote seeking meetings, we raised them when we had other ministerial meetings about needing to have a conversation. I know there were letters saying that…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
The UK Government said that, in bypassing the Welsh Government, they were actually directly devolving greater power and responsibility. Actually, it has not done that. What it has done is it has undermined regional policy in Wales, and it has put local…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
No, it's the concentration of need. So, if you consider this: Merthyr Tydfil, as an area that I don't represent—I'm deliberately choosing somewhere that I don't represent—has a concentration of significant need. It's concentrated in that area. That doesn't…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
But the index covers income, employment, education and distance from services, so actually, those things do matter wherever you live in Wales. And the difficulty is here, Sam, if you think, 'Actually, let's make sure the money goes everywhere', then you're…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Well, we proposed using the Welsh index of multiple deprivation for the overwhelming majority of how the funds will be allocated. Now, we knew that the UK Government would not agree to allocate all of the money on the basis of that index. We knew that they…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
There's always been a possibility that you could lose money in any funding envelope. That depends on delivery, it depends on people being able to use their plans, and the flexibility is narrower now at the end of the funding programme. But I think the idea…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
All of the moneys have been allocated, and so they're earmarked for spend. There's always a risk about projects being able to deliver against that. I think the headline doesn't actually match the reality. There isn't a realistic risk that we're going to lose…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Three? Even better. So, you get to run off that period of time, and that isn't netted off against your next entitlement if you still qualify. The problem with the shared prosperity fund is when it looks at annualised settlements, it avoids the ability to have…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Well, I haven't seen the exact comment of those and what they say is or isn't reasonable. What I can tell you is it isn't reasonable to avoid providing Wales with £1.1 billion that we would have had if we were still within the structural funds framework, and…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Because they never have been. If you look at all the periods of EU structural funds that have been delivered, then you get a window for the seven years, you then get some time to run those off. You never get those netted off against the next period of…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Well, when it comes to the difference of opinion, yes, it's a difference of opinion, but, actually, there are just facts in this as well, and the fact is that, at the end of the multi-year budget settlement, that final year will be roughly equivalent to the…
8 Mehefin 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cyllid datblygu rhanbarthol wedi’r UE: Gweinidog yr Economi
Diolch yn fawr. Bore da, Cadeirydd. I'm Vaughan Gething, I'm Minister for Economy.
6 Mehefin 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan Weinidog yr Economi: Y Sectorau Technoleg a Seiber
Diolch i'r Aelod am y sylwadau a'r cwestiynau. Rwy'n fwy na pharod i gydnabod llwyddiant ysgol uwchradd Sant Joseff unwaith eto ac, yn wir, y gwaith sy'n digwydd yng Nghasnewydd a'r cyffiniau. Mae'n fwrlwm gwirioneddol o weithgarwch, ac rwy'n credu bod…
6 Mehefin 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan Weinidog yr Economi: Y Sectorau Technoleg a Seiber
Diolch i'r Aelod am hynny. Rwy'n credu ei fod yn ddefnyddiol bod Mike wedi rhoi tair enghraifft i ni o gwmnïau a oedd gynt yn gewri technoleg nad ydyn nhw bellach yn cael eu gweld yn y ffordd honno: Nokia, BlackBerry ac IBM. I'r Aelodau hynny yn yr ystafell…
6 Mehefin 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan Weinidog yr Economi: Y Sectorau Technoleg a Seiber
O ran y Cymoedd Technoleg, does gen i ddim yr wybodaeth ar gael i'w rhoi iddo. Byddwn yn hapus i edrych ar wybodaeth y gallwn ni ei darparu nid yn unig ar y gwariant, ond ar ganlyniadau cyflogaeth hefyd, a lle mae'r arian hwnnw wedi mynd fel arfer a'r radiws…
