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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
So, it's nearly twice as much.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
So, you've got the operational budget and you’ve got the ways of working. So, we're aware that you've got specific amounts laid out against ways of working, and we'll go into those in more detail. But the operational budget has gone up by 11 per cent. Could…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Yes.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
So, you outlined the four main areas of expenditure there, and part of that is Senedd reform, ways of working—they're ring-fenced budgets. So, the total increase of operational resources is over 11 per cent. Can you explain the reasons for that and what…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Mike.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Okay, fine. Okey-dokes. So, your overall prioritisations and decision making in reaching the resources set out in this estimate now for 2025-26, can you describe the process that you've gone through this year? How does that align with this committee's…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
That's fine—just making that clear.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
And that figure then will come out of this budget, because you've already used it in the supplementary budget.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Basically, because of the delay, and it's coming down the line next week—. Has there been any impact of that delay? Have you thought, 'Well, actually, this is not going to through, so therefore we'll stop doing something in the meantime'? Has it had any…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Okay, thanks. You provided information about the impact of the two cost-saving exercises for 2023-24. What impact did those exercises have on the 2024-25 budget and your original target of the £315,000 saving?
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Croeso cynnes, a warm welcome to you, and thank you for the documentation that we’ve had beforehand. So, we’ve got quite a lot of ground to cover and quite a lot of documentation to get our heads around and quite a few questions to ask. I’d like to start by…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Welcome.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Thank you very much.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
So, we'll go on to our first substantive item this morning, which is item 3. This is the scrutiny of the Senedd Commission’s draft budget, an evidence session with our witnesses. Can I just ask you all to introduce yourselves for the record, please?
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Papers to note
We'll move on to the papers to note. We have one paper to note. We'll note that paper, thank you. There we are.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee. I welcome the Members; everyone's here, we're had no apologies this morning. This meeting is bilingual and interpretation is available from Welsh to English. This meeting will be broadcast…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Another method for doing this could be a community right to buy. I note the recent Government statement on the community asset commission, which was issued on 24 September. My question is not in any way a criticism of the people or organisations involved in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you for that response, and welcome to your role.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
8. What support is the Government providing to local authorities to sustain non-statutory functions? OQ61600
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
We supported the policy, but then we had the amendment here to say that we needed that consultation locally, and that has, eventually, been done. There was such—. The delay by the Welsh Government in acting on that Plaid Cymru amendment, supported by the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Yes.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
It has been implemented in places across Europe, and, as much as they won't want to mention it in their debate, it's been introduced in Conservative councils across England. Plaid Cymru, Labour and the Tories all agreed that more 20 mph roads were…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
It—. We've seen the photos.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
The revisionism that has been going on during this debate is quite remarkable. After all, there was initial cross-party support for a movement towards 20 mph. This is not a new policy.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Thank you, Llywydd. I move the amendment.
