14 Hydref 2024 , Petitions Committee
Y wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am ddeisebau blaenorol
I'd better declare a late declaration—
14 Hydref 2024 , Petitions Committee
Y wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am ddeisebau blaenorol
No problem. This will be the third time that we will have talked to this, firstly in September 2023 and again in October 2023, and now, obviously, again. Very clearly, there is a desire to make the Senedd more representative of the Welsh population. I think…
14 Hydref 2024 , Petitions Committee
Y wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am ddeisebau blaenorol
I'm happy to take your approach, Chair. And also, you know, I thank the petitioners for the work they have done in shining a light on some of the issues, and you've just reiterated some of them there. I am extremely concerned about how many pets might not be…
14 Hydref 2024 , Petitions Committee
Deisebau newydd
Thank you, Chair, and I thank Mr Evans for putting forward his petition. Obviously, he raises some points of concern to him and I'm sure they might be shared by many other people, but sometimes the wider public don't always, perhaps, understand the nature of…
14 Hydref 2024 , Petitions Committee
Deisebau newydd
If I could, Chair, I think it's only fair that the petitioner has, perhaps, a few views from the group. There are many issues that, as you said, have been very well rehearsed about, perhaps, some of unworkability of some of the original views that were…
14 Hydref 2024 , Petitions Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
And with regard to P-06-1461 about universal actions in the sustainable farming scheme, I declare that I am a farmer.
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Maybe, Chair, in a similar way, when we present or you present the annual budget, there's usually a summarised, quite easy-to-read narrative that explains the bulk of what's happening. An easy-read narrative, recognising as well that there's a lot of scrutiny…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
That's money you can't spend anyway.
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, a lot of that £215 million is part of the £500 million, which is now—
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you for that. Moving back into the education realm a bit, I still want to understand—and I'm sure many people looking in do—a little bit more about the £215 million reduction in education, and what that actually means. So, an actual layperson's…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you, Chair. Carrying on that theme of health for a moment, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care mentioned in September the modelling scenarios for winter and key areas he would wish to be considered, or to be focused on. I just wondered how…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you for the clarity on that. While we're talking about health budgets, can you provide any update on the financial position of NHS bodies, in regard to their resilience, as we move forward to the winter?
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I’d like to explore a few points around those funding changes within MEG, to try to understand those a little bit better. To kick off, the supplementary budget includes a £141.3 million consequential allocated to support allocations to the Welsh NHS. Can you…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
In fairness, one of the things that I did when I got here was to get the definitions of all of those elements. And they are freely available on many of the documents around the budget. There’s usually a glossary at the end, which gives you some insight into…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
This is something I was going to raise a little later on, but it's pertinent now, because I think when you look at the headline figures—. Let's look at the education figure. It looks like, 'Education has been reduced by £215 million, isn't that horrific?…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I've always wrestled with this concept of changing capital to revenue, because it's something that, in a previous life, we so could not do, because, obviously, capital is for infrastructure and you can't service, you can't do it regularly, so how can you…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I think so.
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Cyllideb Atodol Gyntaf Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Only a little one. It's really how the relationship now is going to be more conducive for change, probably, or I would hope so. I've often wondered in the past—. We know the Secretary of State's role is sometimes questionable on what it achieves for Wales…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Adolygiad o weithrediadau, prosesau ac ymchwiliadau Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Chris, you captured it, actually. I think people have a right to a private life, and social media is a big part of people’s private lives now. It’s quite appropriate that anybody could make a judgment. It could be a political decision, something's made it to…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Adolygiad o weithrediadau, prosesau ac ymchwiliadau Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Adolygiad o weithrediadau, prosesau ac ymchwiliadau Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I'm not suggesting you have to do that, but it's worth reflecting on whether that strengthens any—. I think the report is strong and I think it gives a lot of clarity and a lot of reassurance to a lot of people, but belt and braces is always important with…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Adolygiad o weithrediadau, prosesau ac ymchwiliadau Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
A couple more questions from me, not too many. I was just wondering, do you think that there is any future role for the review team to conduct any follow-up work, or anything? Do you envisage anything like that?
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Adolygiad o weithrediadau, prosesau ac ymchwiliadau Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you for that. That's answered of the questions I was going to ask. Perhaps in addition to that, do you feel that there might be any further need to engage with this committee to inform us of any updates against any of the actions that you're carrying…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Adolygiad o weithrediadau, prosesau ac ymchwiliadau Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
That takes us on to my next set of questions, really. You've accepted all of the recommendations and lessons learnt from the review. Could you give us some clarity now on how you will go about implementing them? What mechanisms are in place to ensure that you…
10 Hydref 2024 , Finance Committee
Adolygiad o weithrediadau, prosesau ac ymchwiliadau Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, just for us to be clear, and you don't need to repeat your answer, but, yes, I'm reassured that Dr McCullough and her team had access to all of the correspondence that they would have received pertinent to the review. If she had felt that there was…
