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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Okay, thank you. Heledd, one final question on this, and then we will have to move on.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Would it be your hope that this trajectory would continue?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thank you for that. Heledd wants to come in.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thank you for that. At this point, I'd like to welcome Jenny Rathbone, who's substituting in the committee this morning. You're very welcome. Alun wants to come in on that, and also Heledd. I'll go to Alun first and then Heledd.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Diolch, Weinidog. We understand. We'll go straight into questions, if that's all right. Can I check with you firstly, please—? In your evidence, you talk about how the overall revenue uplift will allow organisations to manage inflationary cost pressures, make…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thank you very much. And I understand, Minister, that Ruth Meadows will be joining us shortly.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Yes, we can.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
If we could unmute Steffan.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Thank you. I think we might've been having some problems. I'm not sure whether Steffan can hear us. Steffan, would you like to introduce yourself?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
Good morning and welcome back to this meeting for the second evidence session of our evidence sessions on the Welsh Government's draft budget. We are now going to hear from the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership. Welcome to you. I'll ask the…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from item 4 of this meeting
Members, I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that we resolve to exclude the public for item 4 of this meeting. For anybody who's watching, I just want you to be aware that we will be continuing in public session at 11:00 this morning, when we…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
That would be very useful. Thank you very much. May I thank you for your evidence this morning? It's been very useful. There will be a transcript sent to you for you to check that it's a fair reflection of what's been said. As I said, there are a few…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Certainly. Thank you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you very much. We will go, then, to Heledd.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you for that. Thank you, Gareth. There are some questions, before we go to Heledd for the final question, that we haven't reached. Would it be okay if we wrote to you with those questions?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
But we'll try and keep it as close as we can to half past. We'll go to Gareth for a question now.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you. We've got just over five minutes left, so we're going to try and squeeze in as many questions as possible. If we run over a few minutes, I hope that's okay.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you. We'll have to move on, I'm afraid. And, by the way, it's great to see schoolchildren with us in the gallery this morning—you're very welcome to hear what's going today. So, a warm welcome to you. Heledd wants to come in with a timely question.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you very much. We'll move on to Alun.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Okay. We'll now move on to Julie.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
That would be useful, please.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Alun, you didn't want to come in. No.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
That's very useful. We'll have to go on. Heledd wants to come in.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Oh, God, the memories. [Laughter.]
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you for that. Julie wants to come in on this.
