, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6
Yes. Yes. I'm waiting for social services to respond.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6
Please.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6
Yes. I want to talk about the position of recruitment and retention, which are incredibly important to both health and social services. I'm also aware, if only from Swansea, that there's movement from social services into health as well, because health pays…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6
Despite increasing costs. I won't take it any further.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6
What you're saying is it went down by 1 or 2 per cent. Is it 1 or 2 per cent of the total health budget or 1 or 2 per cent of the primary care budget, and how does that compare with the increase in secondary care?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6
Yes. Health is a big budget, et cetera, and it's all centralised, but you've got the split between primary and secondary care, and it's a matter of fact that primary care has had a smaller and smaller percentage of the health budget over the last five years…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Can we write on the shared prosperity fund?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
The point I was making is that, if it was 10 to each school then you could sort your budget out, but it won't be 10 to each school, will it? The very popular schools will just increase in numbers to their standard number, and the less popular schools will end…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Or, in seven years, they won't be.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
But in five years, they won't be.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Two questions, really, as we're running very short on time. The first one is on education. What are your expectations of pupil numbers for the next 12 months and the next five years, because I've seen figures that show them reducing? Now, that creates two…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
So patiently. [Laughter.]
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
You could also increase fees and charges.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Second lowest.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
Well, the percentage increase, all that tells you is population change, doesn't it? That's what it reflects. The absolute amount, however, and, as Lis knows—you get the second smallest absolute amount of revenue support grant; Monmouthshire gets the least—and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Which comes up now. In accordance with Standing Order 17.42, I invite the committee to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Do Members agree? Yes. We're now going into private.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Yes, we can ask for that. Correspondence with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Welsh Government’s principles on UK legislation in devolved areas. The Counsel General responds to our letter seeking further information about the Welsh…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Perhaps we can go into it in more detail in the private session.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
—rather than via committees putting names forward.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
We can perhaps discuss it in private, but, in general, I believe every appointment should be made via the Senedd—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Item 7 is papers to note, correspondence from the Equality and Social Justice Committee, joint ministerial scrutiny session on criminal justice. Members are invited to note the correspondence from the Equality and Social Justice Committee in relation to a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Item 6, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement, correspondence from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Okay. Do Members have anything further to add?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Yes. Do Members want to do anything, or just note that? Okay. Item 5.3 is the Local Health Boards, NHS Trusts and Special Health Authorities (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024. The committee…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
No. Members? No. The Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2024. The committee considered this instrument at its meeting on 6 January 2025 and laid its report the same day. Members are invited to note the Welsh Government…
