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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Croeso cynnes, a warm welcome to you, and thank you for the documentation that we’ve had beforehand. So, we’ve got quite a lot of ground to cover and quite a lot of documentation to get our heads around and quite a few questions to ask. I’d like to start by…
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Welcome.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Thank you very much.
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Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
So, we'll go on to our first substantive item this morning, which is item 3. This is the scrutiny of the Senedd Commission’s draft budget, an evidence session with our witnesses. Can I just ask you all to introduce yourselves for the record, please?
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Papers to note
We'll move on to the papers to note. We have one paper to note. We'll note that paper, thank you. There we are.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee. I welcome the Members; everyone's here, we're had no apologies this morning. This meeting is bilingual and interpretation is available from Welsh to English. This meeting will be broadcast…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Another method for doing this could be a community right to buy. I note the recent Government statement on the community asset commission, which was issued on 24 September. My question is not in any way a criticism of the people or organisations involved in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you for that response, and welcome to your role.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
8. What support is the Government providing to local authorities to sustain non-statutory functions? OQ61600
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
We supported the policy, but then we had the amendment here to say that we needed that consultation locally, and that has, eventually, been done. There was such—. The delay by the Welsh Government in acting on that Plaid Cymru amendment, supported by the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Yes.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
It has been implemented in places across Europe, and, as much as they won't want to mention it in their debate, it's been introduced in Conservative councils across England. Plaid Cymru, Labour and the Tories all agreed that more 20 mph roads were…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
It—. We've seen the photos.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
The revisionism that has been going on during this debate is quite remarkable. After all, there was initial cross-party support for a movement towards 20 mph. This is not a new policy.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Thank you, Llywydd. I move the amendment.
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Debate on the Standards of Conduct Committee Report—Fourteenth report to the Sixth Senedd under Standing Order 22.9
Thank you. I was concerned there that I had a new job. The Chair, of course, is in the Chamber. I'd like to thank Natasha for her comments and I do note them of course. Our report is clear and is presented with cross-party recommendations, so I call on the…
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Debate on the Standards of Conduct Committee Report—Fourteenth report to the Sixth Senedd under Standing Order 22.9
Thank you, Llywydd. As a member of the Standards of Conduct Committee, I formally move the motion. The committee considered the report of the standards commissioner in relation to a complaint made against Natasha Asghar MS regarding a tweet that used…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
—and not to rehearse the same argument, because the Grange is something that is not best served with some of the public transport links that have been there, and, obviously, that bus service that Natasha talked about was jettisoned after six months, could you…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Following on from Natasha's question—
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
I intend to go into private session now. So, under Standing Order 17.42(ix), I propose that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. No problem. Thank you very much.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you very much for joining us this morning. Sorry that we’ve run over time a little, but we're very pleased—. There will be a transcript for you, so that you can check that it’s accurate.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you, excellent. Okay, thank you very much.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Mike alluded to a couple of questions there that we might write to you on. One would be on budget protocol. We’ve had a good discussion over the past couple of years, really, with your predecessor. Hopefully, that engagement will continue with you in…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
And I think our report will, hopefully, make interesting reading for you when we do publish it.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you. Mike.
