Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 18 September 2019.
I'm really sympathetic to the need that people have to better understand exactly what our proposals will be in the budget for next year, and I understand the keenness that people have to have some early announcements made. But I think that it would be unfair to go ahead and make announcements before we've had another bilateral round with my fellow Ministers, and also before I've had the opportunity to meet and discuss things further with the children's commissioner, the older people's commissioner, the Welsh Language Commissioner, another round of discussions with the future generations commissioner, and discussions with the Equality and Human Rights Commission. I think that there's a lot of listening and talking to do before we get to the point where we're able to give these indicative budgets for next year. That said, I know that the education Minister has been pleased to accept all the recommendations of the recent Children, Young People and Education Committee inquiry into school funding, and I'm sure that she'll have more to say on that in due course.