22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
I think there are, perhaps, two things—if you wanted to give some credit to the UK Government—they learnt. The first was that they themselves recognised that the scatter-gun approach was problematic and they wanted to have a plan to invest against that wasn't…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
So, that was in the last two weeks. They were two weeks of very intensive engagement, and it meant that Ministers, special advisers and officials worked through the weekends to try to get something sensible, and that was driven by the UK Government wanting to…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
So, if you take a step back to the pilot funds, community renewal and levelling up, we were, literally right at the end of the process, given a 50-word summary and asked, 'What do you think?', and we said, 'This isn't meaningful; we're not going to engage our…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
And the sector here as well.
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Well, this is all about the politics of the matter. It's not just the mandate from five or six elections to this place, there have been two referenda that have established this place with the network of powers that we have. The United Kingdom Internal Market…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Well, I don't disagree. We've done some of that in Wales as well. We've moved civil servants to different places, and local authorities have done some of that in the way that they have moved their office space around. There's a different challenge, of course…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Yes, look, when it comes to the use of the shared prosperity fund, we only have an influencing role, we don’t have a decision-making role. And that is a real problem, because it isn’t just a sense of grievance from a Welsh Minister who says, ‘This has been…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Well, that's what we want them to do, and that's the reason why we had an investment framework. It's why we encourage each other along to have the regional plans that they provided, the regional economic framework, because that means the framework to then…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Well, I think it comes back to, not just comments we've made, but the UK select committees and their own Public Accounts Committee—this doesn't look like a great use of public funds, and not great value for money overall. So, I think it would be wrong to say…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
The levelling-up fund is a different fund. It replaces the towns fund in England. And, again, there is a range of criticism about the way the towns fund was created in England. We used to get a Barnett consequential for that. When the levelling-up fund was…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
The WLGA did have a lot more direct engagement with those UK Government officials, but that's because the UK Government department was creating a relationship that didn't exist, because, of course, the department that's been running levelling up now for the…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
I think it's both, in the sense that—
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
You're going to have a perspective on how we've used funds in the past and how we're are still using EU run-off funds. You've got a role as the chair of the programme monitoring committee for that. What you will see in the way that the UK Government developed…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
No. That's the broader challenge around the cost of living in its broader sense. It's not just for households but actually for businesses and other affected sectors. So, I don't think you could directly point to a comparable source of UK funding. That is when…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
That's different. So, when we talk about the over £1 billion, that's on the programmes that we're talking about now that we would've had. It doesn't take into account the new fund that was created that Peter referred to earlier.
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
What I think it's also worth mentioning in terms of some of the differences is that having netted off in a way that we disagree with, the challenge is that there isn't any plan or any commitment at all in future years to invest that money that they're netting…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
I will ask if Peter can start this, as he's leading the group and he isn't a politician. He'll give you straight answers about how much we think is available and then if there are matters for Ministers to deal with in response, we can do that. So, Peter.
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
No. Rebecca do you want to—.
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Well, Ministers who engage with UK Government Ministers on a range of levels make this point. So, whilst I've got a lead role within a lot of this space, and Peter Ryland works in my department, as it were, Rebecca directly takes it up with finance Ministers…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Well, I don't think it's terribly difficult, actually. The manifesto commitment was to replace and, at a minimum, match the size of former EU funding to nations in the UK. So, that's pretty unambiguous and that isn't what's happening. And I know you've had a…
22 Mehefin 2022 , Finance Committee
Trefniadau ariannu ar ôl yr UE: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
I'm Vaughan Gething, I'm the Minister for Economy.
15 Mehefin 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Weinidog yr Economi
Rwy'n credu bod y cliw yn y geiriau 'troseddau busnes'. Nid yw troseddu a'r system cyfiawnder troseddol wedi'u datganoli i'r lle hwn, neu ddim eto, o leiaf. Felly, bydd angen inni ymgysylltu ag asiantaethau'r DU. Rydym yn gweithio'n rheolaidd gyda heddluoedd…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Weinidog yr Economi
Byddaf yn cyfarfod yn rheolaidd â chynrychiolwyr lletygarwch, twristiaeth, digwyddiadau ac economi'r nos drwy'r fforwm economi ymwelwyr. Sefydlwyd y fforwm i drafod amrywiaeth o faterion yn ymwneud â'r cyfleoedd a'r heriau sy'n wynebu'r sector. Edrychaf…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Weinidog yr Economi
Wel, mewn gwirionedd, roedd datblygu'r gwesty yn rhywbeth a drafodwyd mewn cyfarfod yn gynharach heddiw gyda swyddogion, wrth edrych ar arallgyfeirio'r economi, nid yn unig yng ngorllewin Cymru, ond rhai o'r heriau sy'n gysylltiedig â buddsoddi mewn…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Weinidog yr Economi
Diolch. Ein blaenoriaethau o hyd yw cefnogi busnesau newydd a rhai sy'n bodoli eisoes drwy wasanaethau Busnes Cymru a'r tîm cymorth rhanbarthol. Rydym wedi darparu cefnogaeth helaeth drwy'r pandemig a'r realiti masnachu ar ôl Brexit. Rydym wedi ymrwymo i…
