18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Okay, Lis. Thank you very much. Would any other witnesses like to add anything to what Lis has said on these matters?
18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Thank you very much. In terms of that WLGA conference and the commissioner from Birmingham, I did want to come on, really, and just ask you all whether you think that any local authorities in Wales might be at risk of bankruptcy, as it's termed, via a section…
18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Thank you very much, Charlie. Thank you for that, giving us a flavour of the situation in Conwy. Dyfrig, did you want to add anything to what we've heard?
18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Okay. Thank you very much, Jane. Would either Dyfrig or Charlie, joining us online, want to add anything to what we've heard?
18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Okay. Thank you, Lis. Jane.
18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Yes, please, Lis. Yes.
18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
Okay. We'll move on to item 2, then, which is our scrutiny session of the Welsh Government's draft budget for the forthcoming financial year, with the Welsh Local Government Association. And I'm very pleased to welcome, joining us here in person, Councillor…
18 January 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Local Government and Housing Committee. We've received apologies from Luke Fletcher, and Adam Price MS is attending committee as a substitute. Thank you for that, Adam. The meeting is being held in a hybrid format…
17 January 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
I believe the Welsh Government has a strong record in terms of developing apprenticeship programmes here in Wales, and it really is very concerning that we're now in a position where some of that progress will be weakened. And as Huw Irranca-Davies and Jack…
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
And for the very early years, and the workforce in the private nurseries, and so on, would there be perhaps more opportunities for them to advance?
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
I'm just wondering, Minister, whether we need to join up a bit more in terms of the early years workforce—the private nurseries, the teaching assistants, teachers, the school team—and whether we need to see that as more of a whole rather than as distinct…
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Diolch yn fawr. Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd.
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Is there anything that might be done, do you think, Minister, to deal with those issues of economies of scale with the primary schools and the fact that they are smaller projects, in the way that we group different schools together and get local authorities…
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Okay, Minister. Could I also ask you about the different sectors—the schools, primary and secondary, further education, Welsh-medium? When we look at this picture of higher construction costs and greatly pressured capital funding budgets, and we look at that…
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Are we, though, likely to see projects that were programmed over a period of time taking longer to be delivered? Is that inevitable now?
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
No. So, from what you say then, Minister, when we look forward, with budgets flat or perhaps even going down in cash terms, it will inevitably then, I guess, be a matter of delivering less with the same money, or delivering less with less money.
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Okay. The sustainable communities for learning programme, there have been previous increases in that budget, but then we've had, unfortunately, fairly rapidly rising inflation in recent times, haven't we? How would you say those two things have played out?…
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
And local authorities have been in a position to make that contribution, generally?
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Yes, some questions on capital funding. Firstly, on the Finance Minister's announcement in October, which took £40 million from your capital budget for the current financial year, which I think equated to around 11 per cent of the budget, could you tell the…
17 January 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Minister.
10 January 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you for that, Minister. It's very good to see ongoing investment in those primary healthcare services, and I'm very pleased that, in Ringland in Newport East, we will have a new integrated health and well-being centre hopefully opening in around a…
10 January 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
2. What is the Welsh Government's current assessment of the availability of primary healthcare services in Newport East? OQ60481
9 January 2024 , Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
Within the limited funds available after so many years of austerity from the UK Government, I think all of us here should recognise—although, obviously, not all do—that this is an extremely difficult budget for the Welsh Government to take forward. But…
9 January 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The compound semiconductor industry
Minister, thank you very much for this statement today, highlighting the very positive nature of the semiconductor industry for Wales, and particularly for south-east Wales and, indeed, the constituents of my colleague Jayne Bryant and myself and other…
13 December 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and from the committee meeting on 10 January 2024
Item 4 is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and also from the committee meeting on 10 January 2024, next year. Are you content to do so? Thank you very much. We will then move to private…
