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We'll work through that as time goes by. So, lovely. I'll bring back Rhianon now. Thank you.
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Because we had a very lengthy—well, fairly lengthy—discussion on this in the Chamber yesterday and the day before, so it was just getting that clarity. So that's fine; thank you. I'll bring—. On that, then, we'll watch and see how that works and then we'll…
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
And have you looked at the Office for National Statistics definition of public sector and whether or not you believe that you fall into that, so it means that therefore that passported money should come to you, or—? Where do you where do you sit in that?
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Can we unmute Peter, please? There we are. Thank you.
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
There's a 'yes', Rhianon.
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Fine. Okay. Thank you very much. I'll bring Rhianon Passmore in at that point. Thank you very much, Rhianon. Let me just make sure that you're unmuted. There we are, you're unmuted. Thank you.
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
So, you could make those decisions in-year, bring back a supplementary or report it at the end of the financial year. Are there any issues that you could foresee where you'd need to speak to this committee—if they're larger than you expect, whether or not we…
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you for that explanation. That helps. You've previously told us that the movement in working capital relates to that normal contingency, and you were talking about that just now, through year-end movements. Does that remain the same, and can you…
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Okay. Thank you, Kevin.
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Okay. Thanks for that. Last year, you talked about the presentation of your estimate and the issues around understanding precisely what level of increase you'll be requesting. Part of that issue related to the money moving from one spending area to another…
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
It's 2.9 per cent—lovely, thank you. You've talked about savings and you've halved the savings target for 2025-26, compared to 2024-25, from £400,000 to £200,000. We previously discussed the financial sustainability review group that we've got, in October…
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Could you remind us what percentage rise that will be as an overall percentage figure?
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
A warm welcome to you and thank you for the documentation we've had in advance. We've seen each other fairly recently as well, so it's good to see you again. We'll now go on to some questions on the estimate and then on the interim report. We've got quite a…
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Great. A warm welcome to you.
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Welcome.
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Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
I'll move on to item 3, which is the scrutiny of the estimate for 2025-26 on the interim report of Audit Wales. I'm glad to see four witnesses with us this morning. It's good to see you. Are you able to introduce yourselves for the record, please? We'll start…
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Papers to note
We have four papers to note. Are we content to note those? I see that we are. Those are all noted, so we'll move on to item 3.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee. It's great to see the Members all here online, and we have our witnesses also with us this morning. This meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be…
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Topical Questions
Crashes like this one that took place in Powys last month have thankfully become a very rare occurrence. It resulted in the death of a passenger, and my sympathies and condolences go out to his family and friends, but this could have been much worse and I…
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Topical Questions
Thank you for that response, Cabinet Secretary.
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Topical Questions
2. What assessment has the Welsh Government made of other Transport for Wales trains fitted with the automated safety system intended to spray sand during wheel slippage which failed on a train involved in the recent fatal crash in Powys, and what is the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you for that response. During the last few weeks, I've been having discussions with the education profession on the use of e-sgol in my region. As you said, this resource was established online originally to help with the provision of sixth form in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
6. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the use of e-sgol in South Wales East? OQ61811
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay, that’s not quite as positive as what the finance Secretary said yesterday, but I know there are lots of things to be worked through. I’ll look forward to getting that update from you. Finally, can the Cabinet Secretary assure us that consequentials from…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch. It is disappointing that that assurance isn’t there at the moment. I’m sure you are listening to local authorities. I’ve been speaking to them as well, and they are making those asks as to how much of that £1.7 billion will be coming their way to help…
