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Legislative Consent Motion: The Finance (No. 2) Bill
As we've heard from the Cabinet Secretary today, we are asked to support further tax-raising powers for Wales through this legislative consent motion. The Welsh Conservative group will be voting against this LCM here today. At its core, this proposal is…
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The Tax Collection and Management (Visitor Levy Costs) (Wales) Regulations 2026
The Cabinet Secretary will be well aware of the Welsh Conservatives' opposition to the principle of a tourism tax here in Wales, and these regulations take a further step towards making that tax a reality for businesses and visitors here in Wales. We know…
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Questions to the First Minister
As you've acknowledged, First Minister, access to an NHS dentist is one of the most pressing issues that people in Wales face, and particularly in my region of North Wales. Just recently, we've heard it announced that six dental practices in North Wales are…
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Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General for Wales
Thanks. Thanks, Chair.
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Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General for Wales
Thank you. Chair, just one more question. In terms of being a public sector organisation, there's always a challenge, or often a challenge, when it comes to being efficient and ensuring value for money for the organisation. I'm just wondering how you think…
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Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General for Wales
Thank you. My continued use of paper and pen probably supports much of your comment there. Just going back to the point you made a moment ago, that so much of the role is about the people in the organisation, and, of course, you'll be looking to work…
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Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General for Wales
Have you considered how that can create capacity?
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Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General for Wales
Okay. Then, in terms of creating capacity through better use of technology—I noted your experience previously with Border Force, but it looks as though that was close to 15 years ago, and technology has leapt and bound since then—it strikes me that some of…
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Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General for Wales
Thanks, Chair. And thanks for your responses so far to the questions. I just want to build on a question that Adam Price asked you when he pointed towards perhaps some of the challenges around the backlog and perhaps the timeliness of reporting. I wonder…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Thank you for taking the intervention, Cabinet Secretary. You, of course, describe yourselves, with Plaid Cymru, as being progressive parties here in the Senedd. You must be disappointed, then, to see progress, as you describe it, resulting in the worst…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
—Deputy Presiding Officer. So, let me conclude, if I may, Deputy Presiding Officer. We're not going to see the improvements that we need to see desperately here in Wales if we continue to see Plaid Cymru and Labour working together as they have done for the…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Plaid Cymru certainly aren't listening, Deputy Presiding Officer. I've already explained that, under our proposals, income tax will be cut, saving those same families nearly £500 every single year, as well as a cap on that council tax. What we're not seeing…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Another intervention? Certainly.
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
I just said at the start of that contribution that when these conversations were taking place, there was £600 million of unallocated money. The Cabinet Secretary said it's all about choices, and that was a choice that we would have made to spend that money in…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
And when it comes to the economy, we must not forget that it was the Conservative Party—[Interruption.]—it was the Conservative Party that put 4,000 people a day into work when it was in Government. Now we're seeing a Labour Party, which you're supporting…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Clearly, Rhun ap Iorwerth forgets that we want to see a cap on council tax at 5 per cent.
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
I thank the Welsh Government today for bringing forward today's budget debate and also for the Cabinet Secretary's engagement through this budget-setting process. I'm sure that he will be not surprised at all to hear that the Conservatives will not be…
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Debate: Welsh Rates of Income Tax 2026-27
The Cabinet Secretary may not be surprised to hear that we will not be supporting the Government's proposal on income tax, because we believe and we think it's right to put more money into people's pockets by cutting the basic rate of income tax by 1p, saving…
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Topical Questions
Cabinet Secretary, this is ridiculous. People on Ynys Môn and across the Menai have been waiting five years for these repairs to be dealt with. You've got to be embarrassed at the very least at the state of what's going on here. I think there's a growing…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospices
It was the former Vice-president Hubert Humphrey who said, 'the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life...in the twilight of life...in the shadows of life'. It's our hospices who are supporting those in the…
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Finance Committee Debate: 'Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019'
I just want to echo the comments from the Chair of the committee as to the work of the committee, and also to add my thanks for the support from the clerks and the Senedd Commission staff in the compiling of this report. I think it's worth Members reflecting…
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thanks, Chair.
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Of course, where you're domiciled will be where you pay that tax, not where the property sits, which is another consideration as well, isn't it?
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thanks, Chair, and perhaps finally on this, Cabinet Secretary, we've heard a description of some of the data that is available on this, and sometimes being perhaps older than you'd want it to be. I'm just trying to understand what access you have to data to…
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Welsh Government Final Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Understood. Thank you. And then, in terms of administration in Wales, how do you expect it to be administered, and by who?
