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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Yes, certainly, David.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Mike.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Great. I don't know if David had anything to add, otherwise I'll move on to Mike.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Peter, did you want to—?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
I'd like to move on to the impact of inflation—we've touched on it earlier in other questions, and I know that Mike's got some questions to follow as well, and I suppose it goes on to a little bit of the supplementary I asked about GDP in different areas…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
David, is this budget going far enough, then, to be able to help? And obviously, any other comments that you've got.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Interesting. There we are. Welcome, anyway. Moving on, as we are expecting falls in real wages to continue over the next year, coupled with a recession, what do you think are the key pressures facing households, and how are these likely to manifest themselves…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thank you very much. Rhianon has joined us—welcome, Rhianon. I hope your journey wasn't too bad in.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Okay. David, did you want to add anything to that?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thank you. What's your understanding of pay assumptions in this Welsh Government budget, and what would be the impact of different public sector pay awards in 2022-23 and 2023-24 on the Welsh Government? Do you have any thoughts on that? Guto.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thank you. Ed.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Mike.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
With regard to that GDP deflator, is it because it's an aggregate over a lot that makes it a bit more tricky? An average doesn't fully—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Okay. David, what is your take?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thank you very much. We'll crack on. We've got you hopefully for an hour or so, so we'll try and keep our questions succinct and the answers as succinct as possible, just to cover as much of the work as possible. I'd like to start. I'd like to understand the…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thank you very much. A warm welcome and thank you very much for joining us this morning.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
And Ed.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thank you, David. Guto.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
We've got the three witnesses with us. Are you able to introduce yourselves, your roles and in what capacity you're here? Shall we start with David online?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
We'll move on now to the work that we're going to be doing today, which is to look at the draft budget of the Government. This morning, we have, to start, three witnesses.
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Papers to note
So, we'll press on now to item 2, which is the papers to note. We have one paper to note. We've had a letter back in terms of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill. Are we happy to note that paper? Yes. Great. Thank you very much.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. A warm welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee—the first one of the new year. A happy new year to everybody in the room and to everyone at home, as well. This meeting is being broadcast live, and a Record of Proceedings will be…
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Debate on the Local Government and Housing Committee Report: 'Community Assets'
Our communities have faced hardship after hardship in recent years, following over a decade of austerity from the Conservatives in Westminster, then we had Brexit, then the pandemic, and now this pervasive cost-of-living crisis. Yet, above all, we have seen…
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Debate on the Local Government and Housing Committee Report: 'Community Assets'
Thank you very much to the committee and the Chair for bringing this debate forward today and for this important report.
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Motion under Standing Order 10.5 to appoint the Chair of the Wales Audit Office Board
Thank you, Llywydd. I am pleased to move this motion today on behalf of the Finance Committee and to ask the Senedd to agree to appoint Dr Kathryn Chamberlain as chair of the Wales Audit Office board in accordance with the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013. Dr…
