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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

5,536 speeches and questions

3 July 2024Finance Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you for that. That's very useful. So, how did you arrive at eliminating profit, because that's the—? Having looked at all that dysfunction, all of that—and I take on board what you're saying there—eliminating profit, how did you get to that? How do you…
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
And thanks for making time to come and meet us. We've now been joined by Rhianon Passmore as well. Croeso, Rhianon. We've got quite a lot of ground to cover, so I'd like start. Obviously, there will be a transcript for you after the session to check for…
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Fantastic. Thank you very much. Well, croeso this morning.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Croeso nôl—welcome back. We'll now go to our fourth item. We've had a change of Ministers, so we have the Minister for Social Care here. Dawn, would you like to introduce yourself and your officials for me, please?
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Diolch.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Or stalled—yes, it's stalled. There we are. Thank you so much for your time this morning. We've got a few other questions, but we will write to you with those, but we've covered an awful lot of ground this morning, and appreciate your time in engaging with…
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Using that analogy, it's crashed about halfway through, hasn't it, so hopefully we'll get it back on the track.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
It's proving the mechanism.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
So, it being a Labour policy, there's a good chance it'll happen in the next year or so.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Thank you. I've got one final—. We've just ticked over half past. I've got time for one more question and then we'll probably write to you with some others. So, I hope you'll indulge me for a second. You mentioned in your written evidence that your experience…
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
It circumvents this committee as well in the scrutiny we do.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
What would be the difference between what is set currently? Have you calculated what it should be if it had gone up in line with inflation?
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Thank you. Sorry, Peter, I'll bring you in now.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
But it's still underpinned by goodwill, rather than by any rules base.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
And that means a buy-in from all parties that that person or organization is—and binding on all sides, then, whatever that decision is.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
—or an auditor, or whoever it might be?
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Would that be a King's Counsel or a judge, or the Office for Budget Responsibility—
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Is that at official level, then?
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Before I bring Peter in, just because you've touched on disputes and that element, FISC does have a way of trying to resolve disputes—has that been engaged with at all in these discussions around HS2 and other aspects that you've been laying out just then? Is…
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
So, changing the goalposts all of the time means that you can't plan.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
So, there's no easy mechanism for you to be able to challenge that. I'm sure you're working—. You said it was a challenge and it took a long time.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Of course. But once you've had time to digest it.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Just going back to the fiscal event day, when you get those tables, is there any challenge involved in that, as in, you go, 'I don't think you've got that right'? Or is it, 'This is it' and there's no pushback whatsoever?
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
But it's your intention, if it comes sooner, that we'd have those budgets sooner.
3 July 2024Finance Committee
Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 8
Could we have your commitment that, if the budget is sooner than you expected it to be, you'd bring forward your budget so that we'd have that time to scrutinise? Because that's something that we're always discussing. It's just making sure that we're on the…