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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Thank you, Peter. Talking about staffing structures and focusing possibly more on the lowest level within those structures, with inflation running at 10, 11, 12, 13 per cent—whatever it is at the moment—pay rises of 2.4 per cent and 3 per cent, on well-being…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
I don't know if Nia wants to come in on this.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
I heard Ken say that, yes, we'd get that level, yes.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Yes.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Certainly.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
[Inaudible.] Okay. Yes, certainly.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Okay. Thanks. Sorry, Peter.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
And then, when you respond, that's when this committee will see the impact on budget and that sort of element?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
With regard to that decision making, I know it's dependent on the passage of the Bill and that sort of thing, but how do you envisage those decisions then being reported back to this committee and to Members, so that we can understand the decision making from…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Thank you. I'll go on to Peter. I think he's got a few follow-up questions.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Just on the ways of working element—you might touch on this anyway, Peter—can you just expand a little bit more on the ways of working strategy and what that actually means?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Peter, did you want to come in?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Certainly. Manon, did you want to come in?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
So, could you talk through just a bit—? You talked about engagement—what sort of things are in that element of the budget?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
The same as the current year.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
I think that would be very interesting, for us to understand how that project fund is worked through. Just, if I may, Mike, the engagement element of the project fund—I think it's about £200,000—is that higher, lower or the same as it was last year?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
So, it is effectively—. The amount that we talked about in the last round, we'll see, effectively, a proportion of that coming back within the budget round. Okay. Thank you very much. And Mike, I think you're next.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
And with regards to national insurance for this financial year, will we see that reflected in the supplementary in the beginning of the next calendar year?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr. So, could we move on to some of the other inflationary pressures that have to be managed each year and the impact specifically of the national insurance contributions in the budget for 2022-23 and the project fund…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
I think Manon—. Do you want to come in on that?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Thank you. Do you know what sort of benefit that is likely to have in future years or—? Have you looked at that element? Is that taken as part of the decision of joining that scheme?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Could you comment briefly on the intention to join the Cardiff district energy group? I think it's in the budget documentation highlights.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Peter, did you want to comment?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Mike.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session
Sorry?
