Jon Rae

Director of Resources @WelshLGA. All opinions my own.

[Wales Governance Centre @WalesGovernance]

🚨Today, Wales Fiscal Analysis published our fifth & final manifesto analysis on Senedd powers and funding reforms for Wales.

🚨Heddiw, cyhoeddodd Dadansoddi Cyllidol Cymru ein dadansoddiad maniffesto olaf ar bwerau newydd a diwygiadau i gyllid Cymru.
https://t.co/8kxfGJPSwy

[David Phillips @fiscalphillips]

Our @theIFS assessment of the different parties is OUT.

While visions for Wales differ, all parties' plans - tax cuts or new spending measures - would put extra strain on the Welsh budget.

Greens would have the most money to find, Labour the least.

https://t.co/Z8acRYBZWP

[David Phillips @fiscalphillips]

Less than two days to go until our joint @theIFS / Welsh Election Study online event on the fiscal context and parties plans for the 2026 Senedd elections.

👩‍⚕️Public services
💷Tax and benefits
⁉️Fiscally credible?
🏇Political trends

Midday Thursday ⬇️
https://t.co/rvItOzMxfd

[Wales Governance Centre @WalesGovernance]

Over this week our Wales Fiscal Analysis research team will publish a new article every day looking at the party manifestos before the Welsh Parliament election. #Wales #Senedd26

We are starting with the parties' policies on tax 👇
https://t.co/uC1seVe700

[Wales Governance Centre @WalesGovernance]

🚨 Ymateb i'r cyhoeddiad am gyllid rheilffyrdd i Gymru gan dîm Dadansoddi Cyllid Cymru 🚝

🚨 Our Wales Fiscal Analysis team’s response to today’s rail funding announcement for Wales 🚝

https://t.co/UOageJpgmT

[Local Government and Housing Committee @SeneddLGHousing]

First Committee meeting of 2025📢:

Join us on Wednesday 8 January, 09:30-10:30 for our first session on scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Draft Budget 2025-2026.

View the agenda here: https://t.co/znkxbrQLzw

Tune in live: https://t.co/C9RA4Gi7NX

[Wales Governance Centre @WalesGovernance]

🚨NEWYDD HEDDIW: Dadansoddiad newydd gan @Guto_Ifan ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26 🧮

🚨NEW TODAY: Wales Fiscal Analysis's Guto Ifan delves into the detail - what does the Welsh Government Draft Budget mean for Welsh public services? 🧮
https://t.co/qgsVFg88nf

[Welsh Government @WelshGovernment]

Let's keep Wales beautiful 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

By making a small payment, visitors can help preserve and protect the places we love.

Visitor levies are used in Europe, USA, Asia and New Zealand to support local communities and protect the environment. Why not in Wales too..?

[Wales Governance Centre @WalesGovernance]

🚨'AUTUMN REEVES' 🍂: Here's @Guto_Ifan & @EdGarethPoole's first breakdown on what the UK Budget means for Wales

🚨BLOG NEWYDD: Beth mae'r Cyllideb yn ei olygu i Gymru? Dyma ddadansoddiad cyntaf o'r newidiadau mawr sydd ar y ffordd

https://t.co/sI26gX9OZm

[Office for Budget Responsibility @OBR_UK]

As stated in the Chancellor's speech, we will publish our next Economic and fiscal outlook on Wednesday 30 October 2024 alongside the Budget.

[David Phillips @fiscalphillips]

For Scotland, Labour & especially Conservative proposals would likely mean Scottish Govt having to make cuts to some spending. SNP proposes big UK-wide increases to tax, borrowing and spending to avoid that - but boosts spending less in Scotland than rUK!

https://t.co/mhUW9VKnrU

[Wales Governance Centre @WalesGovernance]

On @BBCRadioWales Breakfast this morning with @jamswilliams85, @Guto_Ifan of the Wales Fiscal Analysis team discussed our latest briefing about the implications of the Conservative & Labour #GE2024 manifestos on the next Welsh budget (link below 👇)

[Wales Governance Centre @WalesGovernance]

💷 NEW ANALYSIS 💷
"Stark Choices Await the Welsh Budget"

New blog post from the Wales Fiscal Analysis team that looks at the content of the Labour and Conservative manifestos through the prism of the next Welsh Government Budget:
https://t.co/0X5wcd84gI

[Finance Committee @SeneddFinance]

Today @seneddFinance is in Carmarthen @yr_egin
to hear from stakeholders’ views on where the @WelshGovernment should be prioritising spending in its #DraftBudget 2025-26

[Jon Rae @jonprae]

@ceritheviking @ILovesTheDiff @wrkclasshistory @TICCIHBrit @Take_Me_Fishing Looks the back of St Mary's, so it must be one of the old Timber Ponds on what is now Dumballs Rd (where the college is).

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: Sliding education results and high inequalities should prompt a big rethink in Welsh education policy.

Read @lukesibieta’s (@theIFS, @EduPolicyInst) new report on the major education challenges facing Wales, funded by @NuffieldFound: https://t.co/lxVbeWjlrQ

[Local Government Association (LGA) @LGAcomms]

Ahead of next week's #SpringBudget, we've joined @COSLA, @NI_LGA and @WelshLGA to write to Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt over the unprecedented financial challenges facing #LocalGov.

The UK's councils need additional funding to continue delivering vital services.

[Jack Shaw @JackTShaw]

According to Grant Thornton, 127 local authorities will have reserves of less than 5 per cent of their annual budget by 2028-29: https://t.co/fOGN5SARp8

[Duncan Shrubsole @duncanshrubsole]

The crisis in council budgets is forcing the closure of remaining preventative services, which of course is driving more crisis need & therefore higher costs, resulting in more cuts.
The deadly doom-loop continues - short sighted economically, disastrous for people & communities

[Twm Owen @NewsatTwm]

Stark warning to councillors in north Wales about what declaring bankruptcy means - it's also not very democratic.

https://t.co/n1fch6kAeR