Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 8:05 pm on 4 December 2018.
If I could just turn to the comment made by Llyr Huws Gruffydd, as Chair of the Finance Committee. He referred to the difficulties in our process when the UK budget cuts across the scrutiny process of our own budget here in the Assembly. But as the committee has suggested and we’ve all agreed, it is better for us to deal with those difficulties and to provide the weeks that we are able to provide so that the committees can carry out that important scrutiny work. I thank Llyr for his comments on the work that we have done in preparation for income tax in Wales as Welsh taxpayers. Of course, the process is challenging, as the Office for Budget Responsibility told the committee, but we are doing our level best to prepare the ground for these new responsibilities here in Wales.