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We've got time for a couple more questions, if you wanted, Mike, before moving on to Rhianon.
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Okay.
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Just on that point—sorry, Mike, to cut across—in particular, is there a risk there might be an in-year ask, especially as inflation seems to be going up and up—that there will be an in-year ask from especially public sector workers of an increase in year?…
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
I think Andrew wanted to come in on that point.
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
If I may, and just to emphasise slightly that point that Mike was making, but also, certainly back to the question we had earlier in terms of budgeting in different areas, we heard from the business community on Wednesday that they would really appreciate…
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
I think Andrew wants to just come in on that, if he may, Mike, before moving on.
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you very much. I'll come on to Mike Hedges now.
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
I did have one more question, but I think I'll keep it until the end, if we've got time, and move on to Gareth, because I'm conscious about time moving forward. Gareth.
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Okay. Lovely, thank you very much. We're moving on to tax forecasts and policy. I've got a couple of questions, and then I'm going to bring Gareth in straight after. The first question I have is: what criteria do you consider that the programme—? Let me start…
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Okay. Thank you very much. There are just a couple of areas to cover off before I move on to Gareth. We're a little bit behind time, but we're okay—we're having a good discussion, so that's good. While the review of inter-governmental relations published last…
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Andrew.
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Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Rhianon, I think you wanted to just come in briefly on this one.
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The increases in the budget, as you've said yourself, are front-loaded, so there's a lot of investment in this year, and we've seen wages, inflation, COVID recovery costs and the impact of those. How are you planning to deliver your objectives in 2023-24 and…
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Gareth, did you want to come in? There we are.
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One of the things that we've been hearing about a lot in Plenary and obviously in talking to constituents out there in the real world, as it were, since the draft budget was laid, is that the cost-of-living crisis has deepened, and I was wondering if there…
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That would be very useful, thank you. Can you summarise for us any other the funding announcements that have been made since the draft budget was published that will be included in the final budget?
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Yes, Andrew, if you've got some brief comments on that.
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I think that Mike might want to come on this.
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Okay. Thank you very much. I want to move on to decisions you've already made in the final budget, particularly regarding financial transactions capital. When you spoke to us in December you said that financial transactions capital allocations would be made…
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Great. Thank you. In December you talked about the prior—. The prioritisation process—I'll get my teeth in now—prior to the budget and the difficult decisions that accompanied that. Can you provide some examples of those decisions, in particular those areas…
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We would be very interested in knowing the composition of it as well, who you've got on there. That would be really interesting.
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I think Rhianon has a quick question to come in. Could we unmute Rhianon, please? There we are.
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I think Andrew wanted to come in at that point.
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We heard a bit from stakeholders during our evidence sessions that they were interested in seeing individual sector budgets be more clearly identified. What further work could you do in terms of budget presentation to make allocations for individual sectors…
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Diolch yn fawr. We'll move on. I think we've got you for about two hours this morning, so that's good. We'll start with some questions. I'd like to head off with some questions around budget timings. While we appreciate your constructive engagement before the…
