16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
So you haven't had to make any hard decisions yet.
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
And finally from me for the moment, you've talked about the conversations you've had, you've talked about the budget and protecting some of that core funding and core elements, but what's been the hardest decision you've had to make?
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Those services and the impact on your three elements—the most vulnerable and the cost-of-living crisis—what do you foresee is the impact on the tribunals, on PCSOs? In real terms, it's a cut because of the inflationary pressure. So, in terms of numbers of…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
In your discussions—you've talked about the social justice Minister—what sort of evidence and data have you been using to come to budget-making decisions and some of those things that you were talking about there?
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Counsel General, you talked there about protecting the core functions, which suggests there are non-core elements, so they will be negatively impacted by reducing budgets. Could you give us an outline of what's been deprioritised?
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
As mentioned earlier, we will now go into private for the rest of the afternoon. Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Thank you very much for your time.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Thank you very much for that. I'm sorry for going a little bit over time. It's always fascinating to have you in and to have your insight into the way that these things work. It does help with our deliberations on the budget and to understand the…
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Okay. Thank you so much.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Am I right in saying that that is at the request of the Government, rather—? You wouldn't independently publish that.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
And is that the same then for income tax? Is it the same sort of thought process that goes into the forecasting and modelling of income tax—all of your forecasts, effectively?
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
And I suppose you see there are older people, so they're less likely to move, and there's all the demographic information that society in Wales is different from parts of the UK as a whole. So that would have a bearing on how often houses are sold and that…
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
That's interesting. You mentioned earlier that you effectively model the UK and then mechanically, effectively, take out a percentage for Wales, rather than modelling the Welsh economy in isolation. If you saw—I don't know if you do see—any divergence from…
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Thank you very much. There's one question from this section that we haven't quite been able to get to, but I think it's an important one. You've included a house price inflation uplift for Wales for 2021-22; how effective was this in delivering more robust…
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Mike.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
—because I think we're nearly at time, but I know that Mike has got a few questions as well. So, we'll—
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Very quickly—
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Peter.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
It's just something that might come down the line from evidence we heard earlier, so, I haven't spoken to colleagues yet about it, but it was just something that came up in evidence this morning. So, it might be something that will come down the line. I'll…
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
No, of course not.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
One of the things that we heard from Wales Fiscal Analysis this morning was that they would find it useful if the things that you've got in the annex were moved into the main body of the report with regard to the impact on the block grant and tracking that…
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Thank you. You published your Welsh tax forecast to coincide with the Welsh Government's draft budget, three weeks after the UK autumn budget. Were there any challenges in adhering to those timescales and, if so, what were they?
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Thank you very much—[Interruption.] Yes, certainly.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Rhianon.
12 January 2023 , Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 5
Mike, did you want to—?
