, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
The question is how we get there, and these are the details that are negotiated between the Minister for social services and the sector. So, I'd be more than happy to get a written note, but I'm afraid I'm not involved in those discussions, so I wouldn't be…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
So, local governments are all committed to delivering the real living wage. The question is—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
So, my role is to fund local government appropriately to undertake the role that they are being asked to do in terms of social services. In terms of the specifics of it, I think I would be best off asking my colleague the Minister for social services to…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, I think another example, then, would be teachers' pay and the deal—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
We meet frequently with local government to have discussions on various areas of interest. I'm going to use social services as an example, because, clearly, it's a key service delivery point for local government. So, my colleagues the Minister for Health and…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
So, I'm saying that local government does have areas of responsibility where we, as Welsh Government, have set the agenda and they're our delivery partners for it. I'm not sure I understand the question.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
What I was trying to describe was in terms of Welsh Government's commitments in our programme for government in areas where local government are delivery partners, so, in that sense, they're responsible, and one example is social services. We work very…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
—in terms of—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
Yes, so what I was trying to describe—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
As part of the multi-year budget, we've employed a new fiscal strategy to try and maximise all of the available funding. So, from 2023-24, the Wales reserve will be used to manage the in-year financial position without holding any unallocated departmental…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
I think it would have been a difficult decision to make had the settlement for local government been more challenging. I think that, then, that would have been a more difficult decision to make. But the fact that we don't have any COVID-specific funding from…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
Yes, certainly. The first thing I really want to do is, obviously, recognise the incredible role that local government has played in our response to COVID. I think the way in which Welsh Government and local government have worked seamlessly has been so…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
Again, the settlement is unhypothecated, so local authorities will be setting their budgets and using the funding to support the Welsh language in the best way possible for them locally, but we do absolutely recognise the important role that local authorities…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
I suppose in terms of preparing the settlement and looking at the RSG in particular, this is viewed at a very high level in the sense that local authorities will receive funding that is based on a number of factors, some of which take into account…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 2—Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Chair, and good morning to you and to the committee. Very early on in the preparations for our budget, we identified health, alongside social services and local government, bearing in mind all of the other services that they provide, as being our…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2022-23
Finally, on local government, I'm really pleased that we were able to provide local government with a positive settlement. As Sam Rowlands says, like-for-like, it will increase by 9.4 per cent compared to the current year and no authority will receive less…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2022-23
Mental health has been referred to, and, again, this is a really important pillar of our budget, and I know that there was particular concern expressed during the debate about children and young people's mental health, and we absolutely recognise the impact…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2022-23
The UK Government has also announced that £0.4 billion will be available UK-wide on the shared prosperity fund in 2022-23, £0.7 billion in 2023-24, and £1.5 billion in 2024-25. So, clearly, by anyone's reckoning, we are absolutely being short-changed of the…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2022-23
Thank you very much. Thank you to all colleagues for what has been a really, really useful debate. There have been so many points raised. So, I will try and respond to at least some of the key themes, but I know that my colleagues will have been listening…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2022-23
We'll build a stronger, greener economy, including over £110 million in additional non-domestic rates relief to businesses in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors. We cannot and will not ignore the devastating and unequal impacts the pandemic has had…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2022-23
Diolch, Llywydd. I am pleased to make a statement on the 2022-23 draft budget laid on 20 December—the first multi-year budget since 2017. As we stand at the start of a new year, I want to reflect on the circumstances that shaped our preparations, alongside…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 1
Maybe officials would be able to provide an example from the past that might give at least some colour to this, but I think Mike Hedges is right in the sense that if we were to be bringing legislation forward and using the procedures as set out in the Bill…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 1
Again, I suppose this would depend on the specific intervention that we were making. We would have to explore that closer to the time in terms of being able to provide the Senedd with more information about what the costs would be of intervening and not…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 1
That cost very little. I don't have the exact figure in front of me, but I remember at the time the WRA in a meeting were very pleased at how little it cost and how they were able just to absorb it within their normal operating and how they were able to just…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 1
It's nebulous at the moment.
