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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you. In terms of inflationary pressures, which have more than tripled from £49 million to £161 million, what does this mean in terms of schools and education services?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you. Any other further comments, very briefly, or is that—? Llinos.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 7
—'yes' or 'no', are you going to be passing that on in full?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 7
Sorry to interrupt you, so, the answer is—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 7
Thank you, and I also want to echo my colleagues' comments in regard to appreciation for the really difficult work that you're undertaking on the public's behalf. I'm going to talk specifically around pressures in terms of education and school budgets. So, in…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Thank you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Just very briefly, and in parallel to the conversation that we've had around the marketplace in that we have to have the available residential care for complex needs, looked-after children and others, and, of course, if that market's not there, you have to…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Can I just ask Alwyn, in regard to the looked-after children point, and, I think, the last point that's been made in terms of, potentially, down the road, another huge issue in terms of that feeding back into secondary care? But, in regard to looked-after…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Okay, thank you. And also, in terms of care providers continuing that journey of getting into more and more financial difficulties, with local authorities having to intervene, with their own financial pressures, what are the financial consequences to that?…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
My next question—I don’t know if anybody wants to add anything to that—would be really how you quantify the scale of the challenges, but I actually think that's been answered. I don't know whether, Dave, you wanted to add anything in terms of the scale of…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
I'll ask those who are bereft on the screen shortly.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you for that response. In terms of those pressures, and in terms of every single aspect on that clock face where those pressures are accumulating—I can't see anywhere where it's not accumulating, despite the best efforts of Welsh Government…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Okay, thank you. And in terms of the overspends that you've just mentioned, Sally, for 2022-23, how financially sustainable are the organisations, Darren, in terms of who you represent? And what are, briefly, the main risks?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
I don't know if there's anything that you would like to add that's brief, but I mean—.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Thank you. And before I move into my line of questions, it's a broad question, and if you could be really, really brief: how much of this challenge, in terms of what this draft budget can do, with the amounts that we're talking about in terms of finance…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
That's fine. I'll dovetail.
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you, Minister. Tory austerity is now a teenager; it's almost 13 years of age, and it continues to decimate local government budgets—this is despite the heroic efforts of Welsh Government. Caerphilly County Borough Council has just unveiled its draft…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
5. How is the Welsh Government encouraging local authorities to enhance urban green infrastructure in Gwent? OQ58964
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
You could get into difficult territory there.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Just for information, if there was absolute incongruence and divergence, and you thought, 'Oh right', and you've got your opportunity for your mid-term forecast, do you ever bring out an emergency forecast or an interim—?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Okay. Thanks.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
This is very brief, if I can do it, and that is, basically, you've mentioned mortgage rises, and obviously the rent rises that go with that, so I'm just still struggling with why you think people are going to consume more, in terms of where you're starting…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Very quickly.
