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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Okay. Carys.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Diolch. Darren.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Welcome to this session and thank you for the evidence that we've had already from your bodies. We've got quite a lot of ground to cover, and we might not come to all of you for every question—we'll come in. If you've got something relevant that you want to…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Fantastic. A warm welcome to you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Fantastic. Thank you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Nice to see you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Wonderful. Diolch.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
It's good to have you all with us here. I'm going to start on my left. If you could all introduce yourselves and where you're from, and then we'll start the session. If we start with Sally.
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Welcome back to this session. We're now looking at the draft budget from a health and social care perspective.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
—thank you very much for coming this morning. It was incredibly interesting, and we hope to see you again soon, either during the year or at this time next year. We'll just go into private for a few minutes before we come to the next witnesses. Thank you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Diolch. Diolch yn fawr iawn. We've come to time, so—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Yes. Jacob.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Okay.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
And you've got specific asks that you'd be able to work with the Government on on improving that documentation.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
We can ask her this afternoon.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
I'm conscious of time and I want to bring Peter in, but it is fascinating and extremely good work on this. I think it does give an extra tool to be able to help benchmark and to help understand what's happening in Government, but also in other bodies. But…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Diolch, Mike. You said that the preface to the budget talks in warm words about future generations and you talked there in your answers to Mike about 'hinted at this' and that sort of thing. You've used the maturity matrix to assess the Welsh Government's…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Anybody who listens to this committee regularly will know that 'show your working' is one of Mike Hedges's catchphrases, and I'm going to bring him in now around transparency. I'm sure he'll have something further to ask around that.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
That's an interesting point, and I think this committee is particularly interested in anything that will help budget documentation and help to bolster up some of those impact forms. So, if you've got anything further that you wanted to let us know about in…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Sorry, yes. Jacob.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
So, you're not seeing those joined-up dots?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Okay. So, what do you see your role as within the budget-setting process? You've had meetings with Ministers, you've had meetings with Government. What do you see your role as, and where do you see yourself coming in to that sort of process, if you like?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
So, we've got you, hopefully, for half an hour or so, and we were very pleased to receive your written evidence—very thorough, very well written, and some very interesting things in there for us to pick apart. So, in this session we'd like to understand a…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
Great, thank you very much. A very warm welcome to you. It's good to have you with us.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 5
A warm welcome to our witnesses this morning. I wonder if you'd introduce yourselves and your roles, and the roles of your team.
