23 October 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
Please.
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
A commitment to devolve the Crown Estate as soon as possible, with relevant timescales, will not generate any extra money. It will come off the block grant. How do I know that? This is what happened when income tax was partially devolved and when stamp duty…
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'A cashless society? P-06-1335: Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash'
I support the petition. I will try and avoid repeating anything anybody else has said. But the Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards and other electronic means can pay with cash, and also those who do not want to…
23 October 2024 , Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
I can't. I'd like to, but I've been out and they won't let me intervene.
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes.
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I meant outside the Urdd and the formal ones—the sorts of informal ones, where young people who aren't into the Urdd type of thing get an opportunity to use Welsh in normal circumstances.
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Can you write to us?
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I'm just going to go outside schools, because you have youth provision. I mean, at Twrw Tawe, in Swansea, which covers the Swansea valley and east Swansea, that provides youth service through the medium of Welsh. Now, at the next stage, it may not be in this…
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
That's been hugely successful in Swansea. The main thing is the hyder, isn’t it?
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
And some are on less.
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. I'm happy, Chair.
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I'm not allowed to talk about the plan; I'm only allowed to talk about the cost. But I have views on the plan and on primary school clusters working together, but I just hope that they do it in terms of—as far as this committee is concerned—reducing the costs…
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Cardiff.
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Well, I only know Swansea in any detail, so, apologies for that, but Swansea has got a number of school clusters based around the secondary schools. I assume that other councils do it the same way, and I would expect the primary schools, within a secondary…
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. The cost for each school to prepare and publish the first and second iteration of the Welsh language education delivery plan is described as an opportunity cost. That means it's a non-cash cost, I hope. Are there any savings in terms of opportunity…
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Would there be any savings to do it via the equivalent of a DES circular—a sort of Welsh Government educational circular? Would that actually save money or would it make no difference in cost?
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you very much. The RIA sets out alternative options to achieve the policy intent of some proposals in the Bill without legislating, and I'm sure you remember that comprehensive education was brought in by a Department of Education and Science…
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Diolch, Cadeirydd. The RIA sets out transitional costs in Parts 1 to 5 of the Bill, which relate to Welsh Government staff time. Is it going to be new staff or is it opportunity costs of existing staff doing something different?
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, it's just a continuation?
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
But in the same way, are we going to assume that Morriston Hospital is still going to be funded, whatever Government is in power after 2026?
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
But it's just a continuation of what's currently being spent—it's not new money. I know I'm boring on this, but I've tried to differentiate between new money and cash and opportunity costs that are different, and the big one is additional cash.
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I was talking about that in another place, but the Welsh sabbatical, is that going to continue, because that has been the big thing for getting people who speak some Welsh to be able to teach Welsh, especially in primary schools? That's made a huge difference…
23 October 2024 , Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Do you expect to follow normal distribution, and have you got any confidence levels?
22 October 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2024-25
This is a minor financial event, but it still needs and deserves full scrutiny by both the Senedd and the Finance Committee. There are no new allocations to this budget, and all changes relate to previously announced funding. Additional funding agreed for the…
22 October 2024 , Plenary
& 9. The general principles of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. The committee’s report drew five conclusions and made 28 recommendations. I first of all welcome the response from the Minister this afternoon. I will focus my remarks on general themes emerging from our scrutiny. We do not consider it…
