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Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
The committee welcomes the £162.4 million allocated in the final budget to help those affected by the cost-of-living crisis, with £1.6 million of that allocated for the single advice fund to offer advice and support on income maximisation. We recommended that…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I am pleased to contribute to this debate on the Welsh Government's final budget in my role as Chair of the Finance Committee. The committee's report on the scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget for 2022-23 included 41…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like to request a Government statement on day-care provision for disabled people during the pandemic. I raise this with you again because there seems to be a big contrast between what is provided, with some local authorities, such as Gwynedd and Blaenau…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the meeting on 11 March 2022
So, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, I propose that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the meeting on 11 March this year. Is everyone content? So, we'll go into private session. Thank you very much.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you very much for joining us this morning and I'm very pleased to see you, and thank you very much for giving such interesting answers.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you. Thank you very much. Unless anybody else has got any further questions or any supplementaries, thank you very much.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
With that in mind, what sort of contingency planning are you doing, currently, to model that and see what pay awards are going to be looking like?
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Thanks, Jack. Just to emphasise the point then—that £20 million, in its entirety, will be a recurring cost next year?
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you. Jack, sorry about that. There we are, carry on.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Could Mike just come in with a supplementary, before you move to your final question?
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Sorry, Jack—
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
It's probably for the education Minister, but the capital would need to come through, and the funding would need to come through, you. So, it's worth keeping it on the radar, so any updates around that would be excellent to receive. Even if it's a letter to…
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
I suppose hand in hand with the new curriculum, we're going to be seeing the roll-out of free school meals, and I think it's a point that Mike raised a while back, and we've asked questions in the past, around that capital spend on the actual schools…
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you, Mike. Peter, I think we need to keep a little bit tighter, but I won't curtail you here.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
I'd like to just bring Jack in on this. Jack.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Sorry, cutting across Mike there.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
And with those hardship funds, and I think you alluded to it, but promoting that so that the unpaid carers that are feeling the real hardship—. What encouragement can you give, or what mechanisms can you put in place, to make sure that they're aware that…
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
—what's your thinking around—? Making allocation for social care is extremely important, but also we've got an army of unpaid carers out there, and what support can we give them?
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
And also the unpaid carers—
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
If I may, on that, you're putting the money into social care; what consideration have you given to things like hospices who are voluntary, and in that sector, that might have to match that salary or whatever for that nurse or whoever that might be? Is there a…
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
And it would be very interesting, as Mike says, to see the workings out, for us to have a better understanding of how it works so that we can better scrutinise how it works then.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you very much. I'll pass on to Mike.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
But it's part of your contingency planning.
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
And have you got plans in place if you're looking as though you're getting very, very close to that headroom? What would you do in that instance?
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Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Evidence session
And what's the risk of breaching that—of breaching the threshold?
