WCVA Welsh Government draft Budget proposals 2021-22 Survey

The Finance Committee is currently seeking views on what should be included in Welsh Government’s draft Budget for 2021-22

We would like to hear as many sector voices as possible as we draft our response to this consultation. Could you please answer as many of the following questions as you choose? The survey should take around fifteen minutes to complete in full

All feedback will be considered for inclusion in our response to the consultation. If you are happy for you or your organisation to be cited within our response, please leave your details below. This will not be used for marketing purposes. If you do not leave these details, included feedback will remain anonymous.

Your email address is requested should we wish to ask you any further follow-up questions, however you do not have to give it.

Please complete this survey by Tuesday 3 November 2020. Email David Cook on dcook@wcva.cymru if you have any questions.

1.Name

2.Organisation

3.Email address

4.I am replying to this survey

Personally

On behalf of my organisation

5.What was the impact of the 2020-21 Welsh Government budget on your organisation?

6.What are your opinions of the impact of Welsh Government’s Covid-19 funding activities?

7.How should Welsh Government change its 2021-22 priorities to respond to the pandemic?

8.How financially prepared is your organisation for 2021-22? Please explain your answer.

9.How could next year’s Budget give your organisation more certainty?

10.Should there be changes to the budget and scrutiny process to make budgeting more transparent and Minsters more accountable?

11.Is it clear how evidence informs Welsh Government decision-making in the budgeting process?

12.Does the Fiscal Framework accurately reflect the impact of Covid-19 on Wales compared to other counties?

13.Do you support increasing limits to current Welsh borrowing to support work to combat and recover from the pandemic?

14.How should resources target economic recovery and what should be prioritized?

15.Should climate change be prioritized in supporting economic recovery – if so, how?

16.Should preventative spending be prioritized - if so, how?

17.How should Welsh Government use taxation powers and borrowing?

18.Do you have any comments on how the draft Budget could…

Reduce poverty?

Reduce gender inequality?

Sustain services and/or transform services?

Support business, the economy and agriculture post-Brexit?

Help Welsh Government deliver against the seven Wellbeing Goals?

Thank you for completing this survey.