27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
I would totally agree with that. I think my point, really, is around how that balance is then reflected, because you know as well as I do, Mary, that you can pay the adequate amount of money, a good amount of money, but that doesn't necessarily get reflected…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Very briefly, Chair, if I may, on that particular point, because this is at the crux of a lot of the issue, although not the main issue by any means. In regard to this, though, being, in a sense, a buyers market, it could always go up, couldn't it? And I…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you very much. Chair.
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Okay. And finally, if I can just ask you this: how fit for purpose is our current system, if you were starting from scratch today?
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you. And my final question then, Chair, if I may: so, in regard to the pooled funding arrangements for care homes, do you feel pooled funding arrangements have been developed as expected? If not, why not? And do you feel, as you've inferred, a unified…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you. Where there is disagreement around—. Where public sector partners do not agree on commissioning placements, what's the impact on service users, families and providers?
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you—multifaceted. In regard, then, to public sector funding arrangements and potential then for division amongst our public sector partners around payment, who pays, how can that potentially be simplified? You mentioned earlier on simplifying…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 1
Thank you very much, Chair, and welcome to Mary. It's good to see you here. We've mentioned where you feel the overall priorities are within the sector, and I don't disagree with that, but would you also comment in terms of the broad provision of the variety…
27 April 2022 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Thank you, Chair. Not much more to add to what to Mike has said. I think it does no harm to review where we're at with this. We all remember the bonfire of the quangos and the Great British potato, et cetera, et cetera. But I think this is something that…
27 April 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Minister. People in my constituency of Islwyn and across Wales are facing a truly unprecedented cost-of-living crisis. The Office for Budget Responsibility has said that in 2022-23 we will see the biggest fall in living standards since records…
27 April 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
4. What discussions has the Minister had with HM Treasury to ensure that the Welsh Government has the finance it needs to support the people of Islwyn through the cost-of-living crisis? OQ57922
26 April 2022 , Plenary
& 13. Debate on the General Principles of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill and Motion to agree the financial resolution in respect of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
As a member of the Senedd's Finance Committee, I wish to thank the Chair of our committee, Peredur Owen Griffiths, for his stewardship, and to my fellow committee members, Mike Hedges and Peter Fox, for their solid work on the committee. I also want to take…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you, Minister.
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you, Minister. And finally, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales told us that its guiding principle is that penalties have a major impact on the taxpayer and are not something that should be imposed by way of regulatory powers…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you; you've been very clear on that. The Welsh Revenue Authority told us, though, that avoidance isn't a risk that it currently sees within these two devolved taxes and that the existing anti-avoidance provision in the Tax Collection and Management…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. That's clear, in terms of your response to that question. It was suggested that the case to amend legislation to protect against tax avoidance and to respond to decisions of the court or tribunals has not been made, in a similar vein, so is there…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
No, that's a really interesting conversation, actually. With regard to the evidence, which suggested that the purpose to respond to decisions of the courts or tribunal is too broad, given it would apply to any provision in the Welsh tax Acts, apart from those…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. That was—
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. You'll have to ignore my dogs. You've told the committee previously—and we've spoken to Professor Emyr Lewis recently, who provided an example on this—about how the powers would be used in theory. He also specified an individual example of where…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you very much. So, to summarise, then, you're saying that this will give us a flexibility and an agility on a par with the UK Government, and that, in a sense, the GAAR acts in the same sort of way as an anti-social behaviour order—it's the end process…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
That's fine. I just wanted a general understanding.
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, I'll just be a bit more concise, then. Do you feel that the general anti-avoidance rule is working well at the moment?
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. We did go into this in some length in terms of the terminology. I think in terms of the general anti-avoidance rule, I'm not quite clear whether you say that's working well at the moment. But in regard to that and the fact that the term 'tax avoidance'…
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, I can't see.
16 February 2022 , Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you—
