, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you, Gareth. You didn’t want to come in, did you, Alun?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you for that. We'll move on to Gareth.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you for that. We'll move on to Heledd.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you very much for your answer on that. Over the years, a large number of either Cabinet Secretaries or Ministers have made the point to the committee, and they’ve agreed with us, that there is a need for the Welsh language to be embedded across…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Nice to see you all again this morning—thank you very much. I'll go straight into questions, if that's okay. May I ask, first of all, in terms of the reduction in the budget for the current financial year, what impact has that had on the delivery of the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
So, we'll move straight to item 2, namely scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget. We have an evidence session this morning with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language. I'll ask the Cabinet Secretary to introduce himself and also perhaps…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. I'd like to welcome Members to this meeting of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee. Do Members have any declarations of interest? I don't see that there are any. So, we'll move straight on…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Since these queries were first raised in the Senedd about eHarleyStreet, about how this private company is managing GP surgeries in Blaenau Gwent and throughout the Rhymney valley, I think a number of us have been contacted by constituents who can't get…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Funding for the arts and culture is in a perilous state. Modest uplifts will do little to ease the sense of strain on theatres, publishing, music companies, libraries, museums—a strain that has already led to job losses and cutbacks in creativity. We risk…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Thank you for your response, Minister.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
8. What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the adequacy of the funding the Welsh Government provides for culture and the arts? OQ62120
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Thank you for that, Peter. Finally from me on this, do you think that there will be a time that we can anticipate when TfW's total budget can be published at the same time as or alongside the Welsh Government's draft budget? Are there any further hurdles that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Thank you very much for that. We touched on performance as well in terms of budgeting. Your predecessor and her officials had said to us, not December of last year but December of the year before, I think, that there were plans for a performance board…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Thank you both very much for that. So, just to clarify that I understand you correctly, in terms of any projects that you would be most concerned about that could be delayed or might not be able to be delivered because of any pressures, the principal one…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
No. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Oh, I don't think the Chair would let you do that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I’m going to ask about TfW’s budget. We have called for TfW’s total budget, not just rail, to be available for scrutiny. So, just to reiterate that point. And, in that vein, could you reassure us, please, that TfW’s total budget will be sufficient to deliver…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Thank you. Good morning to you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay, thank you. That's really useful. And just finally from me on this, in terms of extra resources being put in to the interim role, do you feel that that will in any way improve public awareness of the assessor's work, or in terms of ensuring that people…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, that's really useful. So, that won't be reflected in the current budget.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay, thank you. On that, is it the plan, please, to establish a shadow body whilst the transition to the statutory body is going ahead?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Bore da. Forgive me that I was a little late. It's lovely to see you. I wanted to ask you about environmental governance, which is so important because so much of what we have been discussing already, so much could stem from that when it's…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
The wintry weather has caused a lot of difficulty locally. When the snow melted it caused flooding that led to road closures in Hengoed, in Ebbw Vale, and there was a landslip near Crumlin. And now that will have caused worry for people not just in that area…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Happy new year. I'd like to have a statement, please, to say what support is available to local authorities to deal with the effects of the winter weather.
