, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Maybe not necessarily an unintended consequence, but a positive consequence: has it helped the industry in getting people back on buses and giving a stability of payments that keep the industry going, which was obviously hit—? If it was anything like the…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Just thinking now, it's from the age of five, five to 15, and those younger ones, from a safeguarding point of view—and maybe it's for Paul, maybe, rather than Gillian, or both—how do you make sure that safeguarding is carried out and making—? I remember…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Just to check, I think, what would be useful for any scheme here would be—. And anything you could share at a later date, maybe, of what that modelling profile looks like, so, whether you get a big surge and then a slowing down and what sort of timescale that…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Yes. Carole.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
And is the modelling pretty accurate, then? You're finding that it's—. How good is your modelling?
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Yes. Okay. So, have you done any work on how much it's costing now on an annual basis, going forward?
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Oh, you did some in 2018, as well.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Fine. All right. All the way from 2020, all the way through, then.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Just quickly, the £249 million you quoted, Gillian, what was the timescale on that? Is that over two years, or is that a year? Or how many months?
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Following on with this, have you seen the creation of any new routes whilst this has been rolled out? Has it helped with the identification of new routes for young people? If there was a need there, has this allowed bus service providers to be able to say…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
The data—have parents got access to that data?
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Another aspect that we were talking to the industry about, and in some of the evidence sessions that we've had, is that element of the younger people, the people under 16, and then, obviously, 16-year-olds, who are effectively treated as adults in this…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
That does help a lot. You've got limited experience of that cross border, because, obviously, the border with England is less populated than, obviously, our border with England. So, any ideas on how that works, or what sort of things did you have to put in…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
It's great to have you with us, and I'm sure you'll be able to enlighten us on what you've been doing in Scotland and have some hopefully relevant information for us to be able to understand what we can do in Wales and learn from some of the key learning that…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session—Free public transport for young people
Thank you, and thank you for joining us today.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: UK Government budget
Given the Easter season will soon be upon us, I have to commend the Tories for the timeliness of today's debate, because the UK Government's spring budget is about as hollow and structurally sound as a warm Easter egg. After 14 years of brutal austerity…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: UK Government budget
Thank you, Llywydd, and I would like to move amendment 1 in the name of Heledd.
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2023-24
Finally, we welcome the fact that the Minister has robust processes in place to monitor in-year spending. That said, we want her to go further, and we have recommended that forecast outturn information is published at regular intervals within the year, to…
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2023-24
The committee are also disappointed that the Minister’s request, in the autumn, to switch funding from revenue to capital budgets was declined by the Treasury. We therefore ask the Minister to provide further information to explain the rationale for the…
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2023-24
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm pleased to speak in this debate today on behalf of the Finance Committee. The committee scrutinised the second supplementary budget on 29 February, and I'd like to thank the Minister for her attendance. First, the committee is…
, Finance Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you very much.
, Finance Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting. Are Members content? I see that they are content, therefore we will go into private session.
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
Diolch, Rhianon. Diolch yn fawr, Mr Rycroft. It's been fascinating and sorry that we've gone over a little bit, but I think it was well worth it just to get your thoughts on the record. And as I mentioned earlier, we might write to you with a couple of…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
Thank you, Mike. There might be a couple of points that we'll want to write you about after this session, if we may. It's just to make sure that we capture some of the knowledge that you've got there and your opinions, as well. But I'll come to Rhianon now…
, Finance Committee
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Evidence session 1
Thank you. I'll bring Mike in now.
