, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Sam, I was just going to suggest that very thing: that we request further information from the Minister following today, if you're content with that.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Lynne, are you happy with the response? We will move on, if so. Is there anyone else who wanted to come in on this theme? Because I would like to move forward to the next topic, which is Curriculum for Wales and qualifications. I have Sam down for this theme…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Diolch yn fawr. Lynne Neagle, os gwelwch yn dda.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Thank you. Art, I'll come to you next.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
I gave you some leeway there, but no problem. Thank you very much for those opening remarks. It is of assistance to us in terms of setting the context, so I appreciate you doing that. I'll take the first question. What I would like to mention is that we have…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Minister, your three minutes are up, I'm afraid.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Thank you. A very warm welcome to you all. I am aware, Minister, that you would like to address the committee. There are a number of issues we want to cover and a number of questions we want to ask, so I've been quite strict in terms of timing, I'm afraid…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Thank you very much. And Louise.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
Thank you. Nicola.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government Scrutiny Session
So, we will move immediately to our general scrutiny session on the work of the Welsh Government. It's my pleasure to welcome the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language this morning—Anna Brychan. A warm welcome to you. We will now turn to your…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Thank you, Catherine. Anyone else, please? I will also place on the record that I am on two governing bodies, and I also have close family working in education in schools. Any other declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. Thank you very much.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Thank you. Anyone else, please?
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning, Members. I'd like to welcome you, and the public, of course, to this meeting of the Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee. I would like to particularly welcome Donna Cushing to your first meeting. We look forward to working…
, Plenary
Debate: Fiscal Reform
I'll begin by stating the obvious: the case for Wales's fiscal reform is, as far as Plaid Cymru is concerned, cut and dried. Independent commissions and expert reports have repeatedly identified the limitations of the current arrangements. Most recently, the…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health: Stronger Safeguarding for a Safer Wales
—what ongoing scrutiny mechanisms will be developed to enable these people to engage meaningfully, and over a sustained period of time, to ensure a culture of constructive challenge and continuous improvement. Diolch.
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health: Stronger Safeguarding for a Safer Wales
I very much welcome the emphasis on a whole-system approach to safeguarding, and the ambition to strengthen the system's capacity for early identification and intervention, moving us away from a predominantly reactive model towards one that is genuinely…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health: Stronger Safeguarding for a Safer Wales
Thank you for your crucial statement today, Deputy Minister.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for your response, First Minister. For social prescribing to be effective, we not only need the ability to make referrals, but we also need a strong and sustainable network of community organisations that have the resources to be able to accept…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. How will the Welsh Government support social prescribing capacity in Afan Ogwr Rhondda? OQ64651
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2027-28 - Pre-budget scrutiny: Cabinet Minister for Finance
Thank you. And then a further question: are you planning to undertake a spending review to deliver your programme for government across this Senedd term, and, if so, when will that be published?
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2027-28 - Pre-budget scrutiny: Cabinet Minister for Finance
Thank you, Minister. I have a question about multi-year planning. In the draft budget, as well as funding for 2027-28, are you also providing indicative funding allocations for future years?
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
Yes, very briefly. I think it's a good time to refer to page 38 of your annual report and accounts for 2025-26, because you've got very low prompted public awareness of Audit Wales: 4 per cent in 2026 knows 'a lot' about you, 18 per cent say they know 'a…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
But it might not be part of that NFI underspend money.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
My question was around that role, and is that going to be continually funded, then, if you didn't anticipate an underspend.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 and the Annual Plan 2026-27: Evidence Session 1
Thank you, Chair. Just sticking to the theme of underspending and staffing, more than 50 per cent of underspend on costs was associated with the national fraud initiative, with some of that underspend being used to fund a new role in the data analytics team…
