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25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Okay.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I'm very conscious of time. I know Rhianon wanted to come in, but I'd rather bring Mike in, if we can, unless you've got a very short question.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
It's certainly something that this committee is very interested in, so anything that you can share, as that work develops, then we'd be very interested in seeing. Peter.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Where are you with looking into commissioning any work around additional bands, which would help alleviate some of the pressure—that lady you were talking about—similar to a Scottish model, where you've got more and more bands? Something I know we've…
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Because there's been a lot in the press around that as well. So, we'd be very interested in understanding that.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Just on that, is that work looking at avoidance as well?
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
That's something I'm sure this committee could write to the ONS about and ask them about those points. I'll bring Peter in.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
It might be something that this committee could write to the ONS about and ask them about that. Would it be helpful for you to have regular good data coming through from them?
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
How often does the ONS produce those figures?
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
I'll bring Mike in and then Peter.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Those holistic things that we were talking about there, like the gender budgeting, are strategic across all aspects of Government. From your experience of doing the role before, and First Minister and health Secretary, how will you use that experience to…
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Were there any outliers—as in things that were different—within some of the things that you've been doing and some of the things that we came up with?
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Rhianon, if I may, also, the Cabinet Secretary mentioned in the statement yesterday that we’re in the process of putting a report together around inter-governmental relations. Obviously, you gave—. I can’t remember who gave evidence. I think it was Rebecca…
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you. Diolch.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Which we'd be in support of. We'll be happy to add our weight to that, then.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Yesterday—I think it was yesterday—the First Minister talked about the conversations that had been had over the summer with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Rachel Reeves, as Chancellor. Have you personally had any conversations, since taking up the…
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Yes. Diolch yn fawr. Rhianon.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
That was a challenge.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
But one won't be at the cost of the other, as in from your time and your focus.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Just following on from that as a—. I don't know how it would work, but, obviously, within the Cabinet now, you've got a Minister for Delivery. Would that be something that she, potentially, could look at? I'm just hypothesising and don't need an answer on…
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Okay, thank you. I think Peter wants to come in. Peter.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
You spoke a little bit about what Scotland have got and what we haven’t got at the moment. Earlier in September, the Scottish Government outlined action being taken to save £500 million from its budget this year. The new First Minister said the Welsh…
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
And we're not able to use the levers that we have to maximum effect.
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Are you more hopeful that you'd be able to get a resolution that benefits Wales from that?
25 September 2024Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Pre-budget scrutiny—Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
You were involved in the last conversation around that, from memory—