22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth
Within those couple of meetings you've had with the Member, what's your understanding of what the actual intent is, whether it's an offer or a mandatory residential?
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth
So, what you're pointing out there is the disparity between the wording of 'offer' and actually a compulsion.
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth
Right. Okay. Can I just ask one interesting question here? To make the changes that the Member is seeking to make, whether you as a Minister want to support this or not, does it require primary legislation? Could it be done in a different way, either through…
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth
And you've made that offer, I think, publicly on the floor as well.
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth
Thank you, Minister. Now, this is something we're really interested in, as we follow these private Members' Bills here: what discussions have you had, or your team had, with the Member in charge during the development of this Bill?
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth
That's great. Thank you very much. You're here with us in advance of having the Member who's bringing this legislation forward, so we'll be interested in your responses today. A straightforward one at the start, it's the one we always ask: do you consider…
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth
We're going to go straight ahead then to our first substantive item today, which is item 2, the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill, evidence session with the Minister and his officials. We're delighted to have you with us here today, Jeremy Miles MS…
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Cyflwyniadau, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
Welcome to this afternoon's meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We have apologies today from Sam Kurtz, a member of this committee, but we're delighted to have back with us James Evans as a substitute, and a very able substitute…
22 Ionawr 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Cyflwyniadau, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
Prynhawn da. Croeso i chi i gyd.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Okay. It's a big risk, though.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, if that's successful, you could well need to actually restore some of the budget lines on this?
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Okay, that's great. My second question, Minister, is: if I was sitting there, if Peredur was sitting there or Peter was when you were going through some really hard decisions and we look at areas where we think, 'Well, look, the take-up of that particular…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes, work together, cut down the silos, agree what the priorities are, spend the money jointly. It may have been parked because of lots of things. COVID has happened in between as well, and it blew a lot of good plans. Anyway, let me go on to what I'm…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Very much. Yes.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Thank you. The reason I've raised that is—. Mike raises quite an interesting point. Even with pooled budgets, you still have tussles, but those tensions are resolved by democratically elected people plus the health authorities—this is always the…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Fascinating. Okay. So, let me bring it right up to speed. Another thing that happened back in 2018, and it's interesting to this budget what's happened to that—. One of the ways to unwrap this blockage between budget silos of health and local authorities…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Indeed. It would. It would.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And then they didn’t and they unravelled that and it went elsewhere.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, we paused; we waited for the UK Government because we thought it was going to happen.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Indeed, what you would do.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
I've got the scars.
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Thanks, Chair. I want to come on to issues to do with gender budgeting. But before I do that, can I just come back to the point that Peter was raising about the interface between social care and health spending in particular? This is far from new. Back in…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes. I think there is an alternative way forward, but it does, I suspect—. We're slightly limited at the moment. I think that this is the role of committees. Committees could look at it. Individual backbenchers on a committee, like myself on the climate…
18 Ionawr 2024 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Yes. Mike, I don't know if this will help with your line of questioning as well, but we were in the debate yesterday on apprenticeships, and it's something that we all feel very passionately about. One of the challenges in that debate was is there sufficient…
