, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, it's good that Paul Davies does recognise the good progress that we have made in Wales in recent years in terms of household recycling. We're absolutely one of the best in Wales, and we want to maintain—.
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I'm grateful for the ongoing work of local government, including Pembrokeshire, and other public service leaders in delivering public services to support the COVID recovery and protect vulnerable people in our communities. Local government continues to do…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you for raising the question, and I also have discussions with local government in terms of the funding needed. But I have to say, it's not a question of what I'm willing to support; it's what I'm able to support as a result of the Welsh Government…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you for recognising the important work that RCT have been doing in terms of investing in their staff to retain and value them. I think that's been really important, and an excellent intervention on their behalf. The Welsh Government is currently working…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
In the current financial year, we provided local government with a 3.8 per cent increase in their core budget, building on the significant increase we provided in 2020-21. In addition, we have made over £325 million available through the local government…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I would commend the Sell2Wales dashboard to the Member and to all colleagues as an opportunity to have a really important snapshot of the situation in terms of procurement here in Wales. So, between July and September there were 1,078 contracts awarded to…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Yes, I do agree that the fiscal framework and the statement of funding policy, which sits alongside that, do need to be revisited, and particularly so in relation to fiscal flexibilities. I have the opportunity tomorrow, at a finance Ministers' quadrilateral…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, the Minister for Climate Change has written to the UK Government, to urge them to take all possible action to protect people and businesses at this point. And I know that she received a briefing from Ofgem on 21 September, where she sought assurances on…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Llywydd, I'll be publishing the Welsh Government's draft budget and departmental budgets on 20 December, and there will be ample opportunity for colleagues to scrutinise the draft budget following that.
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Llywydd, I do try to be as helpful as I possibly can be in questions, but I'm not going to be drawn into any commentary on discussions that may be taking place between my party and Plaid Cymru. I don't think this is an appropriate time to do that. That said…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Llywydd, I'm not going to mediate between the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru on the floor of the Senedd. I will leave that to them to have those discussions themselves.
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, there's a deep irony in that question, of course, because the UK Government is not funding the Welsh Government in respect of the £375 million that we would previously have received from the European Union, and much of that funding actually went into…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you. Llywydd, Jayne Bryant's absolutely right to recognise that the UK Government's own analysis does show that HS2 has the potential to harm Wales, and particularly south-west Wales, and yet they still categorise it as an England-and-Wales project…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I want to see the UK Government follow through on its commitment to work with the grain of devolved Government policies. In areas such as net zero and addressing regional inequalities, there are opportunities for action on investment that will really make a…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, over the course of the previous Senedd term, we created more than 100,000 apprenticeships, and that exceeded our target, in fact, but, this time, we're even more ambitious, recognising the need that the economy has for these skills, and we've raised our…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Welsh Government's been working very hard to incentivise employers to recruit apprentices to help people back into work and to help the economy to start moving again, and we've recently extended our incentives to support businesses in Wales to recruit…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Apprenticeships help people, especially young people, to improve their skills and careers, and help employers to meet their skills needs for the future. I discuss our ambitious programme for government commitments to support growth, widen participation in…
, Plenary
Debate: Devolution of New Tax Powers
And that's why Welsh Government has been fully and openly engaged with HM Treasury officials over the last two years, providing the UK Government with a number of documents addressing the criteria set out in the command paper, including the scenarios in which…
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Debate: Devolution of New Tax Powers
I'd like to thank all colleagues for what I think has been a really interesting debate, and I'll just begin by saying that I do fully recognise the importance of HM Treasury's role in the assessment and scrutiny of our request, in order to ensure that any…
, Plenary
Debate: Devolution of New Tax Powers
High-quality, safe and affordable housing is the cornerstone to better health, better educational outcomes and better well-being. We know from housing need estimates that we will need an additional 7,400 homes per year for the next five years, and we are…
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Debate: Devolution of New Tax Powers
Diolch, Llywydd. We first debated the case for new taxes in 2017, beginning a national discussion about how new tax powers could provide opportunities to help us realise our ambitions for Wales. More than four years later, those opportunities are still not…
, Finance Committee
Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Well, those questions are absolutely the ones that we need to be thinking about in terms of determining the way forward: which of the possible options that I've described, or a combination of those options or even other options, do give us the greater step…
, Finance Committee
Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
We've been quite fortunate in terms of the data that we've been able to access; some data sets we've been able to access for the very first time. So, we've had the benefit of analysing data that has previously not been available to us. Inevitably I think…
, Finance Committee
Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
This relates to our programme for government commitment to make council tax fairer for all. This is probably one of the, potentially, largest pieces of work that I will have in my portfolio, and one of the, potentially, most exciting and radical pieces of…
, Finance Committee
Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Actually, Chair, we've been doing some really exciting work looking at the grants and the period for which they are awarded, with a view to grants being provided for longer periods, and then looking at what happens at the end of that grant period. We're…
