, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Mine's a very short one.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I'm glad that you’ve mentioned gender budgeting, Chair. In terms of the areas within the budget that you have identified, are there any that are going to be deprioritised? I don't know who would like to answer that.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I'm going to move swiftly on to priorities for the forthcoming budget. What did you take away from the committee's spending priorities—you spent a little time on this at the beginning—debate prior to summer recess? Has that debate influenced your planning for…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you. I think the committee would be really interested to be updated in terms of when and if that top tier of the FISC meets.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you very much. In terms of new financial structures being established—and you’ve given an overview at the start of this session, Minister—what changes in these early days do you know of that are being implemented to our existing structures, and also in…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you, Chair. You've mentioned you've met with the Exchequer already, so, comparing the new UK Government with the previous administration, what is the difference in terms of information being shared and the conversations being held around the upcoming…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you very much, Chair. We've referenced the Scottish situation in terms of the capital borrowing increases, and you've mentioned Northern Ireland, as context, and the 2016 levels that we're on now, but we're also living in a period when prices are 20 per…
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
—during 14 long years of Conservative management, there is a great big hole to be filled. My question, First Minister: what policy areas and strategic opportunities have you identified that will be advanced via constructive dialogue alongside our UK…
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
First Minister, thank you, firstly, for your statement. The value to the Welsh people of having two Governments in Cardiff and London working together to improve their lives cannot be underestimated, and it has been missing for 14 long years. The Labour Prime…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, the lifeblood of the national health service created by the Attlee Labour Government is its dedicated workforce. One of the very first acts under your administration, First Minister, was accepting in full the recommendations of independent pay…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you. It would be useful for us to know when that will be published. Finally, in regard to the Civil Aviation Authority's accessibility report 2023-24, in regard to the treatment and accommodation of passengers with reduced mobility and disabilities, I…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
And I'm sure—. That sounds very interesting. With regard to when that's going to be published, have you got a timeline on that? I've got another question that I need to move on to.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you so much. I'm going to move quickly on. In May 2023, the Welsh Government told the committee that it understood that the airport would be updating and publishing a new version of its environmental flightpath document in due course, which would map…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
And that's not recognised as income. Is that correct?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay. So, in need, in terms of that qualification. Thank you. I'm going to move on. So, what's your current cash position, please? And how much of the rescue and restructuring grant have you drawn down but not yet recognised as income since it's not met the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
But you have actually drawn down in advance. Is that correct?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay. Thank you. The next questions are also to the airport. The airport, in March of 2023, held around £15 million in cash. It had yet to meet the related grant conditions for around £13 million of Government grants, and so that amount was included as a…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Can I just interrupt? I mean, but how does that delay, and obviously you've given us a reason for that, in terms of the ability to acquire those carriers, how does that impact on your ability to meet your cash requirements?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay. Thank you. That's a good overview. I'm going to move to my next question. Obviously, you've mentioned that you've had a good summer. You've also mentioned the hinterland opportunities around the airport. But, if we look at some data, there was a…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Yes, briefly.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you very much, Chair. We are three years into the five-year rescue and restructuring plan. So, how do you, and I suppose we, assess the effectiveness of the plan against those objectives?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Happy to note, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
I think so, yes. Okay. I'm content to note, at this stage.
