, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you, Chair. For a start, I don't think there's any disagreement: we know that there is not the same level of funding as there should have been, and we are more than a penny worse off. This is a fundamental matter for Wales and a fundamental matter for…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
I'll look forward to that. Thank you very much, Minister.
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you. I think the last point is really important and that would be really useful. Moving on, the Bevan Foundation has advocated adopting a distribution analysis approach—and there was publication of a document, if I recall—and that there is scope to do…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
And I think it would be really interesting to understand that because, obviously, the single advice centre, in its very name, would purport to be identifying everything around the individual, with all of the things that you've spoken about, and many others as…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
—pandemic preparedness. Thank you, Chair. In regard to the Bevan Foundation statement that the Welsh Government support schemes are 'separate, discrete and quite obscure', in their words, what more can be done to create a more streamlined, accessible system?…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
I think that would be very welcome, Minister, in respect of—
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
That's encouraging to hear, and I totally agree with the last point. Do you think the budget gives sufficient investment, Minister, to ensure that small businesses have the digital infrastructure? It was something that was brought up this week by different…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you, and I'll look forward to that, Minister. You've partially gone into this, but how would you respond to the questioning around the draft budget? Because it was obviously published prior to the omicron variant metamorphosis. So, what consideration…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you, and we'd be very interested in that in this committee. Moving on, in regard to policies supporting business within the pandemic, what could Welsh Government do further to demonstrate how allocations made in the draft budget align with the strategic…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you, Minister. In regard to mitigation of data on free school meals no longer being available as a key indicator into calculating the local government settlement, how will that be mitigated for?
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
And you're not minded to do that in terms of that lack of input in this regard from the WLGA. They haven't raised it, so it's not on the agenda. Is that correct?
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
I presume that's disaggregated, and do you feel that a review of the distribution of funding formula is needed—yes or no?
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you, Chair. Regarding levels of reserves held by councils within the context of uncertainty and the incorporation into baseline budget of previous COVID spends, what analysis or assessment has been undertaken to understand those levels of reserves held…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Very briefly, in regard to that incorporation into baseline budgets and the long-term anticipated and projected impact and effects of COVID across the public sector and beyond, what is your view, Minister, in regard to sufficiency around that uplift in the…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Thank you. Just a quick question around your comments, Minister, around the distributional analysis, which is welcome. There was felt to be a need for more meat on the bones around that, but obviously in regard to the context that Andrew has set out, the…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost of living
The Tory UK Government's cost-of-living crisis is hitting the people of Wales hard. It is a crisis and, yes, it is one that's been seen approaching. But we do have to acknowledge that the Tory Government is in charge of the parafiscal levers that will…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch, Llywydd and Minister. Thank you for that update. Sadly, 1,160 people have died in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board with deaths relating to COVID-19. The citizens of Islwyn and Wales have sacrificed so much in our continued fight against this…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
2. Will the Minister provide an update on the number of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board? OQ57479
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 7
Okay, thank you very much, Chair.
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 7
Okay, thank you. So, there may be a need for greater messaging around this. Sara, I don't know if there's anything, or Ben—
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 7
I think that would be very useful, and I think, as a tool, as Mike has said, it is an additionality into the suitcase to provide that equity within that framework. I don't know if there are any final thoughts on what this could be used—
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 7
Mike would be—.
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 7
So, this can only be used for loans and investments in the private sector. It has to be repaid to, I believe, the UK Treasury. So, Welsh Government is required to pay quite a large proportion back of that, I think, to the Treasury. So, it would help to…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 7
That sounds very proactive. Thank you, Sara. My final question, Chair, is with regard to financial transactions capital allocations in the final 2022-23 budget. Welsh Government has mentioned that it's planning to allocate financial transactions capital in…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you very much. And my—
