15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Thank you for that. Just moving on to market housing, I'm just wondering why, after an additional £25 million of annual capital had been allocated to the empty homes grant, there hasn't been a decrease in the number of empty homes over the last three years…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Yes, but you're not expecting any of this £2 million to be helping them to come on board, because that was already in the settlement.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to ask you a quick question on the leasing scheme. We know you've put an additional £2 million into that. I just wondered if you could give us a little bit more detail on what your intended purpose is for the additional money.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Yes. Thank you.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Yes. My experience has been that, when we get to planning application time and developers are coming forward with a 30 per cent target, and then when it comes to granting them planning, they'll hold back and hold out and argue and we've seen figures come in…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Yes. It's a really interesting area, and as a past council leader, we've seen LDPs put in place but not deliver for about five years after or more, and I wonder how much forward planning we should be doing. I know that strategic planning is looked at by…
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Okay. Good, thank you.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
On what you said there, have we seen—? What's the difference in land supply costs and things now? Have we seen quite an increase for development land or—?
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Chair, I'm not trying to make political points on this. It's trying to ascertain the facts as they are at the moment. Without the clarity on national insurance, the facts are that our aspirations won't be achieved until those negotiations perhaps deliver.
15 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Dai a Llywodraeth Leol (Tai)
Yes, it's very clear, and, notwithstanding what you're trying to do in helping with the living wage, it's just a fact that the third sector are going to be under huge pressure if this element of national insurance isn't addressed, so your aspirations for what…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a’r Gweinidog Cyflawni ar y Bil Deddfwriaeth (Gweithdrefn, Cyhoeddi a Diddymiadau) (Cymru)
Thank you, Counsel General.
13 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a’r Gweinidog Cyflawni ar y Bil Deddfwriaeth (Gweithdrefn, Cyhoeddi a Diddymiadau) (Cymru)
Thank you for that. On the same theme, perhaps you can put this right as well: why does the Bill refer to the ‘Clerk of Senedd Cymru’, as opposed to the term used in the Government of Wales Act 2006, ‘Clerk of the Senedd’?
13 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a’r Gweinidog Cyflawni ar y Bil Deddfwriaeth (Gweithdrefn, Cyhoeddi a Diddymiadau) (Cymru)
Thank you for the clarity around that. A couple of other questions from me. Why did the Welsh Government not engage with the Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd ahead of the Bill's introduction, given that some of its provisions relate to the clerk’s…
13 Ionawr 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a’r Gweinidog Cyflawni ar y Bil Deddfwriaeth (Gweithdrefn, Cyhoeddi a Diddymiadau) (Cymru)
Yes, thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, Counsel General. Just following on from the theme of the Open Spaces Society, I understand that they’d suggested that the repeal of section 28 of the Commons Act 1876 should not be taken forward in the Bill. I wondered…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru
I'm not knocking councils for having reserves, you need reserves, and I'm appreciating how much you are needing them now, and using them, and you were already doing it in Bridgend, which is great. What I would ask, where there are authorities that have…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru
Just touching on reserves—and I do recognise how you are having to draw off them every year, and hopefully your treasury management will be replenishing them to a little degree and there are more favourable opportunities to do that—I would ask leaders, and…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru
Just briefly, on the whole collaborative agenda, because it was something I certainly, in my past life, could see that was fundamental, actually, to a sustainable local government family. I just wondered, can you give us a flavour—obviously, that could go…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1—Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru
Good morning, all. It’s really good to see you and to catch up with where you are. Mary Ann, you shared that there was a sigh of relief when the budget came through, but, clearly, as we all know, the variances between the distribution of Newport and Monmouth…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Diolch, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, mae hynny'n galonogol. Rwy'n siŵr y bydd llawer o bobl sy'n gwylio yn derbyn eich cyngor. Fe sonioch chi am y gwersi a ddysgwyd eisoes, ac nid yn unig y rhagwelir y bydd y prosiect hwn yn costio £2 biliwn yn y pen draw—ymhell…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Diolch, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet. Rwy'n credu bod pob un ohonom yn gobeithio y daw’r manteision hynny i’r ardaloedd sydd eu hangen fwyaf. Diben prifddinas-ranbarth Caerdydd oedd ceisio codi'r gwastad, ac os yw hyn yn helpu o'r pen uchaf, mae hynny'n wych, ond…
8 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Drafnidiaeth a Gogledd Cymru
Diolch, Lywydd. Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, edrychaf ymlaen at weithio gyda chi yn fy rôl newydd, a gobeithio y gallwn weithio'n adeiladol gyda'n gilydd i hybu'r gwerth gorau i Gymru o safbwynt trafnidiaeth. Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, fel y clywsom ar y newyddion yr…
7 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Diolch, Prif Weinidog. Fel y gwyddoch chi, ac fel yr ydym ni i gyd yn ei wybod, mae rhestrau aros wedi bod yn mynd ymhellach allan o reolaeth, gan gyrraedd lefel uchaf erioed newydd ar ôl naw mis o gynnydd yn olynol. Mae'r sefyllfa enbyd hon yn gorfodi llawer…
7 Ionawr 2025 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
2. Pa asesiad y mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi'i wneud o'r rhesymau dros y cynnydd yn nifer y cleifion sy'n defnyddio gofal iechyd preifat yng Nghymru? OQ62084
13 Tachwedd 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
Diolch, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet. Cyn bo hir, bydd y Senedd hon yn gwneud gwaith craffu ar yr ardoll twristiaeth yma yng Nghymru—dimensiwn newydd i'ch polisi trethiant, os caiff ei basio. Fel y gwyddoch, mae fy nghyd-Aelodau a minnau yn gwrthwynebu gweithredu…
13 Tachwedd 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a’r Gymraeg
6. Sut y mae polisi trethi Llywodraeth Cymru yn cael ei ddefnyddio i gefnogi busnesau yn ne-ddwyrain Cymru? OQ61847
