, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
I think that that is the difference. If you had the health Minister here, he would be monthly monitoring everything that he has to answer for every month. My interest is in the two-year and how that money has been allocated, allocated above what the NHS is…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Yes, I guess my interest is—. The health Minister's interest will be in those monthly statistics that come out on waiting lists and how those are being reduced. My interest will be in how successful the two-year plan has been in enabling us to assess whether…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Yes, this is primarily—. Well, the £100 million of resource funding, as well as £25 million for capital allocation, is to meet Plaid Cymru's and the Welsh Government's now priority to reduce waiting times in Wales. We know how they affect so many people in…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
It doesn't get past Sharon. [Laughter.]
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
I won't get sidetracked into that—no pun.
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Well, there is much spotlight on funding and how funding for devolution and funding for Wales could be changing over the next few years, so there is much opportunity in what might be happening at a UK level for Welsh Government and others to pursue on this…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
That's a kick under the table. The table is long, but I felt the kick.
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Oh.
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
So, as you've said, the Government, both myself and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution, have outlined how this Government wants to shape its work in the context of not just how much money is spent on something, but also on…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
And the explanatory memorandum, I think, clearly differentiates between the funding that's within our gift as a Welsh Government and Senedd to allocate and then the budget cover transfers—the projects that they've been allocated towards.
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Budget cover transfers were new ones for me as well in detail, in coming into my post, and they are very different to the ability that we have as a Welsh Government to take decisions on the other aspects of the supplementary budget. So, budget cover transfers…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Good morning.
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Yes, this consequential funding for special educational needs was allocated in England for a debt write-off in terms of the debts accumulated by local authorities over a period of years as they provided SEN services within local authorities in England. The…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Well, managing that within the financial year and the use of that, if necessary, will be part of the Government's management of expenditure. The next supplementary budget, the second supplementary budget this year, will be a way of confirming what has been…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
There is a limit on the Wales reserve of £385 million, and so that's the limit that we have as a Government on the Wales reserve. In this financial year, and in this financial year only, we have been given the right to have full access to the reserve to use…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
The capital budget and resource budget are managed totally differently. The way to allocate capital most efficiently is to do so early, in order to enable those public authorities and others who will use that capital to get on with spending it and supporting…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Yes. We hope that we will be able to work with the NHS to see how that pressure can be reduced over the year, but we do need to ensure that we keep moneys to manage the in-year flux. Perhaps Andrew might give a flavour of how this has been done in previous…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
With the childcare offer, I noted that there was £25 million pressure already existing in the system when the new Government came into post, and that, of course, has been provided for in the £45 million resource that we've now allocated within the financial…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thank you for the question and the invitation to join you this morning to look in detail at the supplementary budget. Yes, the budget does allocate £433 million of additional allocations and £294 million of those relate to the priorities of the new…
, Finance Committee
First Supplementary Budget 2026-27: Evidence session
Thank you very much for the invitation to join you this morning, Chair. I have two officials with me this morning: Andrew Jeffreys and Sharon Bounds.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
You've outlined the aspiration that you have for the Warm Homes work that needs to happen in Wales and the benefits that it can reap for households throughout Wales. I outlined in my original answer the consequentials we've already received as a Government…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
The consequentials from the UK Government's Warm Homes plan were confirmed in the autumn budget 2025. Wales will receive £17 million in 2026-27, £26 million in 2027-28, £26 million in 2028-29 and £17 million in 2029-30.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
My fault.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
I didn't divert a single penny away from additional learning needs in yesterday's supplementary budget. The allocation for additional learning needs and for schools was voted on by the Senedd, introduced by the Labour Government and supported in part by Plaid…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Finance
The first supplementary budget, published yesterday, provided an additional £164 million revenue and £130 million capital funding to our key priorities. This includes £145 million for NHS Wales to cut waiting lists and build a health and care service fit for…
