Results 101–120 of 3000 for speaker:Rebecca Evans

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Preventive Health Measures (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I will commit to reflecting the concerns that you raised this afternoon to the Minister for Health and Social Services. Obviously, this is a matter for her to decide within the confines of the MEG that she has, but I will be more than happy to make her aware of the contribution this afternoon.

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: School Catering (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: Two hundred and sixty million pounds has been committed to implement the universal free school meal provision programme over the next three years. I anticipate that this funding will be sufficient for the majority of local authorities, but have committed that any additional requirements will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Preventive Health Measures (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: Building on our previous budget, the 2023-24 draft budget continues to focus on preventing harm to the most disadvantaged. Alongside the £165 million to protect our NHS, actions include protecting the £90 million funding for free school meals, investing a further £10 million in homelessness prevention and providing £2.2 million for our basic income pilot.

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Non-statutory Public Services (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I'll make the point again that the Welsh Government has provided the absolute best possible settlement to local government, and I know that was recognised by local government leaders and members of local government across Wales. As I've mentioned, we're providing revenue funding of over £5.1 billion and over £1 billion of specific grants to local authorities next year, and that's a rise of...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Non-statutory Public Services (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I meet regularly with all local authority leaders to discuss key issues that affect us all, including the current financial challenges. It's the responsibility of each local authority to determine how they deliver their non-statutory services, based on local priorities.

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Climate Change (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I agree that local authorities have an important role and an important potential in that particular space, which is why I know that the Minister for Climate Change is engaging with them in respect of the development of the Unnos work, and I hope that she'll be making more information available to colleagues on the development of that work before too long. So, perhaps that would be an...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Climate Change (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I'm very grateful for that question this afternoon, and I'm really pleased with the work that the decarbonisation panel for Wales is undertaking in terms of ensuring that all local authorities have plans in place in order to help move them towards that goal of net zero in the public sector by 2030. I think one of the areas where we need to put a great deal of focus, of course, is on...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Climate Change (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: Climate change is a cross-government priority and I work closely with the Minister for Climate Change and with my other Cabinet colleagues to support delivery of Net Zero Wales, and to support local authorities in delivering their commitments.

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Promoting Public Health (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I'm grateful for that question and I've also had a really good meeting with the older people's commissioner, who talked very passionately about the potential for age-friendly communities. I can confirm that, for 2023-24, the Welsh Government via the social care reform fund will provide a grant of £50,000 to each local authority, so that they are able to appoint a lead officer to support...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Promoting Public Health (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: Well, first of all, I would just reassure you that we are acutely aware of and equally concerned about the pressures that the current energy crisis and the cost-of-living crisis are having on the sport and leisure sector. Of course, the provisional local government settlement means that some local authorities have now reversed their plans to close some of their facilities, which I think is...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Promoting Public Health (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: The resource for core public health promotion sits with local health boards. Local authorities have responsibility for other areas of public health, such as health protection and environmental public health. Local authorities work closely with partners, including local health boards, on some areas of health promotion, such as the national exercise referral scheme.

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: So, just to return briefly to the first part of your question, I would just like to say that this is one of the reasons why the strategic impact assessments are so important, because they do look at the cumulative impact upon people of various decisions and, of course, upon people who have more than one protected characteristic as well. So, those types of impact assessments are really helpful...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I think the example that you give really serves to highlight the difficult decisions that local authorities are considering at the moment, and they span a really wide range of matters that are of importance to their residents. So, decisions must be taken, of course, through the lens of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, so, they'll be needing to consider what the decisions...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: Thank you for raising that point this afternoon. I'd begin by recognising that hybrid working and virtual working can be a really important way in which to increase diversity in democracy, as we were discussing last week, in terms of making those meetings more accessible to people in full-time work, people with family commitments, caring commitments, people who are self-employed, and for...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I think this is an area probably where we have more common ground, because this is a piece of work that we have been undertaking with local authorities over the past few months, at their request, to explore which areas of grant funding could potentially be moved into the revenue support grant on a short-term or permanent basis. So, that piece of work is ongoing at the moment, but we've...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I think it is important to recognise that, overall, our settlement for local government, at a 7.9 per cent increase on this financial year, has been broadly welcomed across local government. I do think that we have provided the absolute best possible settlement that we could have. We gave to local government in excess of the funding that we received in consequential funding from measures that...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Cost of Living (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I would absolutely agree that one of the most important things the Welsh Government can do is to bring together parties with responsibilities for serving our citizens to ensure that our efforts are combined and that we're all focused on those things that matter most to people, and that's one of the reasons why, over the course of the autumn, we did have fortnightly meetings with our...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Cost of Living (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: Well, I'd begin by saying that we absolutely don't underestimate the challenge that our colleagues in local government are facing from the inflationary pressures that they're experiencing at the moment. Because, of course, just as the Welsh Government's budget has been eroded in value, so too has local government's budget been eroded in value. But, nonetheless, we've really focused our...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Cost of Living (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I'm very grateful to Jack Sargeant for raising this this afternoon, and I do want to recognise the incredible work that Jack Sargeant is doing in terms of leading the campaign in respect of prepayment meters. Colleagues within Welsh Government are absolutely taking up that campaign on your behalf. So, the Minister for Social Justice is having a further meeting with energy suppliers on 23...

1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Cost of Living (18 Jan 2023)

Rebecca Evans: I hold regular meetings with local authority leaders and discuss the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis, including in regard to the funding the Welsh Government is providing to enable authorities to continue their crucial support for residents.


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