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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
And that would be the fundamental determinant.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
That would have to come with some strong regulation around it, though, wouldn't it? Because if you want the one, you've got to make sure you reduce the other.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thank you. The finance Minister told us that decisions regarding the Welsh rates of income tax are not taken in isolation from the tax people pay to Westminster and, due to economic circumstances, it didn't feel like the right time to be taxing people more…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Yes. No. That was a—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
That's really helpful, really interesting. Thank you. If I can move, then, on into income tax. How do you think the changes to UK income tax policy in the autumn statement impact on the WRIT tax base now and in the future, relative to the UK, and how will…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Thanks for that. If I can just push on into—. Wales Fiscal Analysis has suggested that the overall net effect of tax devolution is still consistently positive across the spending review period, by an average of £168 million year. Can you provide further…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
That's really, really helpful. I'll just push on another area slightly. With so much uncertainty in the global and UK economy, do you have a view on the reasons for differences between future economic forecasts from the OBR, the Bank of England and the…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
That's very helpful. I don't know if anybody else—. I'm not sure if David wants to reflect on that.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Yes, thank you, Chair. I quite enjoyed that last bit, actually. But I want to focus a little bit more now on tax policy within the draft budget and proposals for future change and looking first at forecasts. As you'll probably be aware, we'll be talking with…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
It would be fair to say we're in extremely unusual circumstances, which we hope don't last for ever. So, it's quite legitimate for a government to put perhaps the brakes on investment in certain areas to prioritise other areas, so that not everything—. We do…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Absolutely.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Do you think that there's a consequence, then, that people will put the brakes on capital investment and that will slow down infrastructure and actually have a detrimental effect on growth in the economy?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 2
Just to put some figures around that, the cost of a public body borrowing £1 million now, how much does it cost to service £1 million over a 25-year period? It used to be about £50,000, £60,000, so now we're talking probably a couple of hundred thousand to…
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Short Debate: The current challenges facing the health and social care system in Wales, and opportunities for future service transformation
Secondly, to ensure a 24/7 local authority-led social care discharge service. We also know that issues with hospital discharge and a lack of social care spaces are leading to bottlenecks within the wider system, with a knock-on effect to A&E and ambulance…
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Short Debate: The current challenges facing the health and social care system in Wales, and opportunities for future service transformation
But what I want to do in this debate is to take the opportunity to look at a longer term transformation that is needed to help our health and social care system to build back more resiliently. Because throwing more money at a problem isn’t always the answer…
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Short Debate: The current challenges facing the health and social care system in Wales, and opportunities for future service transformation
Diolch, Llywydd. I welcome the opportunity to introduce this debate today. Before I begin, I would like to mention that I have agreed to give a minute of my time to Russell George, Laura Anne Jones, Gareth Davies and Rhun ap Iorwerth, and I look forward to…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister, for your response. I recognise that Rent Smart Wales has an important role to play in ensuring high standards within the private rental sector in Wales, providing landlords and tenants with that important advice and support they need…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
3. What assessment has the Government made of the effectiveness of Rent Smart Wales in increasing standards within the rental sector? OQ58918
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. And can I wish you, First Minister, and other Members here, a happy new year as well? Recently, a charity contacted me with their concerns about the impact that the cost-of-living crisis is having on their staff. They highlighted that their…
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Questions to the First Minister
1. What support is the Welsh Government providing to third sector organisations to help them through the cost-of-living crisis? OQ58917
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Statement by Peter Fox: Introduction of a Member Proposed Bill: Food (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Tom, and thank you for that challenge, and I know it's done as a critical friend. Food plans, I think, are absolutely fundamental to this. As I said earlier, there are many authorities trying to do things around food, but there is no joined-up…
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Statement by Peter Fox: Introduction of a Member Proposed Bill: Food (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Huw. I think if you read through the explanatory memorandum, all 123 pages, you will find the answers to every one of those questions, in quite considerable detail, in many ways. You ask what can the Government get on with. Well, I've set food…
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Statement by Peter Fox: Introduction of a Member Proposed Bill: Food (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Laura, and education is absolutely fundamental and at the core of this. It is morally wrong in this day and age that we see obesity climbing as it is, especially in our young people. If we don’t act now—it’s not dissimilar to the climate change…
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Statement by Peter Fox: Introduction of a Member Proposed Bill: Food (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Jenny, and thank you for your support. Can I thank you for the work that you're doing in this area within the cross-party working group for school meals, and what you are aspiring to see? I've been happy to work with you on there, because we need…
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Statement by Peter Fox: Introduction of a Member Proposed Bill: Food (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Natasha, and thank you for your support through this. Indeed, thank you to so many of you for your support through this. I think I did cover some of this earlier. I think it's absolutely fundamental that a commission—and not a commissioner, a…
