15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Sorry, yes—.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Catherine, did you want to come at it from—?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
You're nodding away there, so, yes, let's—. Jane.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Actually, Jane, did you want to come in?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Okay. Thank you. I'll bring in Sam, then, for some final questions.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Great. Anything on that from a social services side, with regard to spending capital? I suppose it mainly comes in through local government, capital into local government and, obviously, as mentioned, the rules are slightly different there. Lance or Jane, any…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Lovely. Thank you.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
I'll bring Mike in on a couple of questions, and then come to Sam, then, to close.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Catherine's indicated there, so yes.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
I'll bring Rhianon Passmore in now with some questions around financial pressure. Maybe, reflecting on what Darren and others have said, maybe, in our papers, question 8 might be appropriate to bring in at that point, and then come from there. Rhianon. Hang…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Darren, yes.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Jane, from a treasurer point of view, managing this—and we know that the money is likely to flow down from Westminster through to Welsh Government to local authorities in particular—is there a challenge in timing and in budgeting and in making sure you have a…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
It's the challenge with timing, I suppose, with that.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
What about national insurance?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Do you want to carry on with the workforce things and then I'll go to Rhianon for the—?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Sorry, Darren. Carry on.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Thank you very much. I'll come to Mike Hedges now.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Forgive my ignorance slightly. The letter that comes out, is it tailored per health board, or is it a one to all health boards? It's just for my knowledge, really. Is it a letter to you or is it a letter to everyone?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
And what's changed?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
So, it's a bit more urgency around it, rather than—. It's probably a 'yes' or 'no' question, actually. Has the Welsh Government sent the allocation letter and the NHS planning framework for next year to NHS bodies? And if so, has it set out the headline…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
No problem there. Thanks for that, because I think it gets to the crux of the difficulties with this. I'll come to you in just a second there, Darren, because in your briefing for the Senedd's debate on the draft budget, you said, 'The NHS requires clear and…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Thank you for that. From a social services point of view, then, Lance, that's a little bit towards the more preventative aspect rather than the acute, if you like, or firefighting, as Darren explained it there. Any further thoughts on that balance between the…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
Jane, I saw you were nodding to that bit there. So, from a corporate services point of view, and from doing this, what are your views on the question of whether the balance is right and some of the things that you've heard there?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
So, have the Government actually got the balance right at the minute, or you'd say, 'No, it needs to change'?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn tystiolaeth 6
But, looking at the performance and outcomes that are in health bodies in Wales, the report from Audit Wales on cancer services said that: 'Variations in performance and outcomes persist within and between health bodies in Wales'. It was quite a hard-hitting…
