, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
Yes, thanks, Chair. So, we're still in the remuneration and staff area. It's really great to see the section about fair pay and the differential between higher and lower salaries, but I wonder whether you could just confirm whether the audit office is an…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
Diolch.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
—and that's why it's a KPI, and I'm just posing a question whether, given the scale of public expenditure, that target ought to be pushed higher, not least because the Wales audit office has, in the past, raised concerns about the ability, for example, of…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
I'm not suggesting that identifying savings is the primary scope of your work, but it is part of it—
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
If that's okay.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
Thanks, Chair. Just one question. So, KPI 7, savings identified: a target of £30 million over three years of potential savings, productivity gains and other financial benefits. You've achieved it. That's great. Well done. Could you just explain how you…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Diolch, Weinidog. As you can imagine, last week's announcements have caused huge anxiety for workers at both Admiral and Legal & General. These are well-paid jobs in an industry that's been a success story for Cardiff and south Wales over recent decades. The…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
1. Will the Cabinet Minister make a statement about proposed job losses at Admiral and Legal and General? TQ1493
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
As part of that music strategy, a music board has been established. There's been a grass-roots music venue fund to support our fantastic venues. This Friday, we have the third iteration of the Cardiff Music City Festival kicking off for the next fortnight…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for raising this question. In Cardiff, a lot of work has been done to support the music ecosystem in the city through a music strategy that's now over seven years old.
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: 'New Ambition for Wales: Programme for Government 2026-2030'
More concerning, however, is the continued failure to prioritise funding to areas of genuine need. Many in Cardiff will have heard the Trefnydd's contemptuous dismissal of my question earlier today. We've heard claims from Plaid Cymru MSs in the past that the…
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: 'New Ambition for Wales: Programme for Government 2026-2030'
First Minister, it's encouraging to see the first visible signs that this Government has a programme at last. Many who read the statement by the First Minister will have smiled to see the claim that the Government made a good start during its first 100 days…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
There's a long-established formula for the distribution of such funding, and well-established processes for making changes to this formula. Your Government has torn that up via a press release, and I'm told councils are still waiting for details nearly a week…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I would like a statement from the relevant Minister on the criteria used in allocating additional funding to support people living in poverty. A press release last week on emergency food and poverty support noted that funding would not be allocated…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Welsh Labour invested £2 billion in the Heads of the Valleys road precisely for a reason like this, to connect communities, including along the M4 corridor but also in the old Valleys communities, with projects like this. If we are serious about bringing…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I also had an opportunity earlier this year to visit this site and to see the great potential that exists there not only for a centre of innovation in rail, but also as a place where you could have things such as data centres, which will help to unlock the…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I'm done. Diolch.
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I agree and acknowledge that. Perhaps you could write to us, just setting out how you will seek to replicate, maybe, good examples with DEFRA more widely across the Welsh Government, so that then this committee can understand what the Welsh Government have…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
And if I may—sorry—you are confident that you will put structures and measures in place to address that. And what's the phrase? It takes two to tango.
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
If I turn to English, I guess one of the tensions—and it's contained in your answer—is between the principle of legislating what's devolved within Wales versus efficiency, for want of a better phrase. There have been examples over the years where there's been…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Yes, it is clear. I welcome the approach of being open to that. It's possible that such exceptions won't be as exceptional, who knows?
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
First of all, just for clarity, could you outline the changes that the new Government has made to the principles of the previous Government, the rationale for these changes, and what, within the new principles, you would consider as exceptional circumstances?
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think there are just two questions from me on this.
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Thank you very much.
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
That's exactly why I'm asking the question. One of my critiques of this place, generally, has been that they've passed some very well-meaning legislation, but have not been able to put the resources behind it to effect the changes that they were looking to…
