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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. How would you spend it? | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Tonight the draft budget sets out the future for your school, your | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
hospital and your local council services. The big winner is the NHS, | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
but cuts for education and council services to pay for it. Our other | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
headlines, they call it the bedroom tax. To some people, it appears like | :00:28. | :00:39. | |
a huge black hole, money pours in and you are never quite sure what | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
you have got out of it as a result of all that money. | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
Are the headlines, they call it the bedroom tax. A Conservative MP tells | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
a tenant the changes to housing benefit are not working here. And | :00:58. | :01:09. | |
it's full time. Wales forward Craig Bellamy confirms he's to retire from | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
international football. Good evening. Councils will see the | :01:10. | :01:21. | |
amount of money they have to spend next year decrease significantly | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
after the draft budget was announced earlier today. The Welsh Government | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
have £15 billion to share between health, education, social services | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
and local government. The biggest chunk of the budget is for health, | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
almost £6 billion, an increase on last year's budget. It was also | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
announced that an extra £750 million will be reinvested in the NHS over | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
the next three years. But spending on local government has been cut to | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
just under £4.5 billion. To ensure the budget is passed, they've | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
already struck a deal behind the scenes with Plaid Cymru and the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Liberal Democrats. We can got live now to our political editor, Nick | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Servini, who is in the Senedd. Up until now, Welsh councils have had | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
an element of protection, certainly in comparison with their | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
counterparts in England. It appears that is now going to change. The big | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
story from today is a shift in emphasis and funding priorities away | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
from councils and towards the NHS, which by any measures have had a | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
desperately tough year. The big question is as a result of today, is | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
it an admission in a way that the Welsh Government has got it wrong | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
and what is it now mean for council budgets? Midway through the Cardiff | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
half marathon this weekend, blood sweat and tears for many runners to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
get to this stage and plenty of hard yards to go. It is also the halfway | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
mark for the current Labour run Welsh Government and today it | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
introduced what it says is the toughest budget since the junction | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
of devolution. Council spending will fall by 5.8% in real terms. That is | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
after taking into account the impact of inflation. Cuts like these are | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
far higher than any Welsh councils have had to deal with so far. To | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
date, we have been able to cushion local authorities from the impact of | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
the severe cuts from the UK government. They have received | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
higher funding levels than their counterparts in England. Welsh NHS | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
spending is going to rise by around 1.5% in real terms next year, | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
breaking the recent trend which has left the health budget trailing | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
behind inflation. The Welsh Conservatives say this comes too | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
little too late. Even under these new plans, the NHS budget is not | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
being protected, it has been brought to the brink of crisis. And I have | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
to put it to the Minister that the year-on-year real term cuts to the | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Welsh NHS by this government is now coming back to haunt us today. These | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
runners are only six miles into the Cardiff half marathon and there is a | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
long way to go. The question is, how far is the country into the current | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
round of public sector cuts. The budget being discussed at the | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
assembly behind me would suggest that for local authorities in Wales | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
in particular, they have still got to go through the pain barrier. Ten | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
years ago, Neath Port Talbot council could see that running leisure | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
centres was expensive. They arranged for a trust to take over. They now | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
save money by not paying rates for the buildings. We have now found | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
that the cause of the additional cuts put on as, that figure has now | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
become 41 million. That means we stop doing things. And even the | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
trust is under pressure in having half £1 million taken out of them | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
over the next four years. We have to find ways of saving. The Welsh | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Government does not have an overall majority so it has 2/ a deal to get | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
the budget through. Even before the budget was sorted out, it did do | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
this with the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru. They secured £100 | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
million for some of their priorities. It is about protecting | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
people in need and we know there is a crisis in the health service, that | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
there are grave problems within the education system and in the | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
economy. Being able to secure a deal that hits all of those three | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
priorities is something I am proud to have achieved today. There is no | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
point in having a row just for the sake of dragging this process of. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
People out there look aghast at politicians not being able to put | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
some of their differences aside to do what is ride for the country. The | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
more time people have two plan and prepare for this, the better. This | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
is all political parties working together in the national interest to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
agree a budget and allow displaced function. Getting agreement was the | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
easy bit. There is a long, hard road ahead now to bring these cuts in | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
without affecting services. I am joined by the finance minister who | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
set out the draft budget this afternoon. And as we mentioned, a | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
big change towards the NHS. Is this an admission after an awful lot of | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
criticism that you do not put in a full -- and of money into the | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
budget? This is the toughest budget that we have had to set. We have had | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
cuts from the UK open to -- UK government to handle. Our priorities | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
have always been schools, health, but also recognising that we have to | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
look at the particular needs in the health service. The Francis review | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
was a really strong call for us to health service. The Francis review | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
respond and we are responding accordingly. This was after the | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
scandal but you carried out your own review of this summer and it came to | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
the conclusion that it needed around £500 million more. That is an | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
admission in itself. No, it is a response. It is a responsible | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
government responding to the needs and recognising that supporting | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
staff and care has to be number one. Everyone in Wales would recognise | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
that. We have to make a decision about the budget that we are putting | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
money into local services. There is no question that extra money for | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
schools, protecting schools, the money going into our young people, | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
it is vital and sold local government will benefit. It is going | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
to be tough for councils though. We have protected the local government | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
over the last three years. We have worked with them and they will | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
recognise that it will get tougher. Of course, it is our priorities but | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
it is about working together. And recognising today they are going to | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
benefit from this budget, investment in schools. Tomorrow, we will be | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
announcing capital investment, working together, I think we can | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
come through this time. Back to the studio. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Thank you. We've already heard that this is a tough budget for your | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
council. Steve Thomas is chief executive of the Welsh Local | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Government Association. What does this mean for people using council | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
services? It is a very tough budget. There is money coming out of council | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
services. It will impact. We cannot keep delivering the range of | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
services that we are delivering. It will impact on libraries, reference | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
collection, leisure services, the condition of the roads. There will | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
be a massive impact. But you are not the number one priority. We are not | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
the number one priority and clearly what has happened is that with a | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
mixture of Westminster cuts and the prioritisation of health spending, | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
local government has in effect become the poor relation in terms of | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
this budget. We have heard all the politics and the economics and the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
finance and all the rest of it. If you are watching this in Holyhead or | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Swansea or Newport, what does it mean for people using council | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
services? We are already seeing that leisure services are getting badly | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
hit. There are announcements around leisure centre closures around | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
Wales. Consultation is going on around the library services. There | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
will be a range of changes going on. But it will affect the workforce in | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
local government. Councils can find the race of raising money. -- other | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
ways. I suspect the council taxes will not see easy races. You must | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
have spoken to colleagues. We have yet to see the local government | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
settlement but I think that when we do see that, there will be more | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
pressure on the council tax. It is a source of income that we have to see | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
what services the public want to prioritise. Isn't the first thing to | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
do to look at the back office costs? They can be more efficient. There | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
may be a reorganisation of local government but at the end of the | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
day, we have three years to make these cuts and it will be a very | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
tough period for local authorities to do that. Thank you very much. If | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
there was a winner in a budget described by a Welsh Government | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
source as the toughest since devolution, then it was health. The | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
NHS will get £570 million extra over three years, with £150 of that | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
pumped in between now and next April. The announcement follows a | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
summer of negotiations between the Health Minister and Finance | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Minister. So where the money go and is it enough to solve the problems. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Here's our health correspondent, Owain Clarke. It is hard to reach | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
for the stars these days but at least we can take a look at them | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
here. At the centre of it all is health. Dwarfing most other | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
departments. But for the first time in years, its budget just got | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
bigger. It is getting £570 million over three years, starting now. The | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
health service needs more money just to stand still. The other key thing | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
about health service funding is though that to some people it | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
appears like a huge black hole. Money pours and you are never quite | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
sure what you got out of it as a result of all that extra money. For | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
politicians, it is dangerous and frustrating. But where does the | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
money go? Replacing this equipment would cost £1.5 million. But it is | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
not only about the big unconjugated machines. Take these two bits of | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
equipment, they are put inside the body to deal with weaknesses in | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
blood vessels. They might not look like very much but this one costs | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
£6,000 and this one costs £10,000. At the end of the day, you will have | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
major pieces of equipment that need to be funded as big one-off | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
payments. And to try and find out in your everyday running expenses is | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
very difficult. It is like trying to run a house and buy a car at the end | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
of the week. Costs can also go up to two salary increases and new drugs | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
are also expensive. But too many end up in the bin because patients do | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
not use them. But extra money has been found. £9.5 million for robotic | :12:19. | :12:31. | |
equipment like this. Until now, dozens of Welsh men including Kevin | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Davies have paid £15,000 each to get treated across the border. As a | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
nurse as one as an army commander, he says the new equipment will | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
benefit hundreds. Shorter stays in hospitals, less infection, less | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
blood loss. And greater mobility. And in my experience, a pain-free | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
surgical experience. Other patients are angry because the NHS still | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
cannot afford to treat them. This man served with the RAF during | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
nuclear tests in the Pacific in the 1950s. He is now paying for | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
treatment for his own liver cancer. Why have I paid my taxes and | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
National Insurance all my life? When I actually need the NHS, they are | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
not there. It has virtually bankrupted us. But there will be £50 | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
million extra to make sure that those who can get treated in the | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
community not in hospital. We could see more health centres like this | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
one in Builth Wells, which brings beds, GP care, dentist care and | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
council social services together. But despite the extra investment, | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
there are worries. The NHS is notoriously inefficient and we are | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
living longer, putting it in more strain but the key question is, does | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
today's extra money and that the NHS here is better placed to face the | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
huge challenges on the horizon? Much more to come before 7pm. She was | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
beaten up. Why women like Michelle say they want to know more about | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
their partner's past. First the rest of the day's news. A | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
senior Welsh MP has told BBC Wales one of the most controversial | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
changes to housing benefit, what critics call the bedroom tax, isn't | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
working as well here as in other parts of the UK. David Davies says | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
although he supports the reforms, some people will lose out, because | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
there aren't enough one bedroom properties available outside the | :14:31. | :14:42. | |
main cities. Tim Rogers reports. He is, he says, an enthusiastic | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
supporter of what he calls the under occupancy charge and David Davies | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
agreed to join us to meet tenants where they call it the bedroom tax. | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
Among them is Gail. After 25 years in the same house, she is facing the | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
real possibility of losing her home. She is 59 years of age and has | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
always paid their bills and has never missed the rent. Since her | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
children grew up and moved on, she is on her own and for that reason, | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
the new law says she has two bedrooms or and she needs. Housing | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
benefit has been reduced and she is now in arrears. Her only option is | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
to find the extra money or move to a smaller property but you cannot find | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
anywhere else to go. There has to be recognition and maybe ministers are | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
reluctant to say this, when you change the law, there are going to | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
be unforeseen and unfortunate consequences. In other words, there | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
will be some people suffering and we should be upfront about that. Some | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
people do not deserve to lose out. He was less sympathetic when he met | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
this young couple. They are living in a two-bedroom flat and paying | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
extra for the empty room, despite getting £60 between them from a | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
training scheme. The MP met Amy at her grandfather 's house. Mr Davies | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
told her that she would do better to live back with her mother and her | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
boyfriend should go to London to find a job. I would not wait for | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
them to solve my problem. You cannot solve the problems. Thank you very | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
much. If there was a job available for me, I would go for it. I am not | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
expecting for you to give I don't know however much tax you pay but I | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
don't want your money. You obviously do once. And you want me to give it | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
to you in the form of housing benefit. Mr Davies is chairing a | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
House of Commons committee compiling a report on the effect of the new | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
law on Wales. I cannot see this being more of a problem. It is | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
something that we have to keep a careful eye on. Ed Miliband has | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
committed to the abolition of what he calls the bedroom tax if Labour | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
wins the next election. Mr Davies says the country cannot afford to do | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
without it. More on that story on Week In Week Out, 10.35pm on BBC One | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
Wales. Labour leader Ed Miliband has given two Welsh MPs new jobs in a | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
reshuffle of the party's spokespeople at Westminster. Delyn | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
MP David Hanson moves from Shadow Police Minister to take over the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
immigration brief, previously held by Rhondda MP Chris Bryant. Mr | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Bryant will move to work and pensions. The Public Services | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
Ombudsman for Wales, Peter Tyndall, is to leave his post for a new job | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
in Ireland. Originally from Dublin, he's held the post since 2008. Now | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
he'll return to Ireland, after being nominated to be the next Ombudsman | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
and Information Commissioner there. He's been one of the most exciting | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
and colourful figures in Welsh football over the past 15 years. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Today Craig Bellamy announced his retirement from international | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
football. His last game will be in Belgium next week, the final game of | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
the World Cup qualifying campaign. Only two players have ever played | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
more games for Wales than him. Our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter now | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
on an eventful career in the red shirt. With a quick brain, quick | :18:15. | :18:27. | |
feet and sometimes a quick temper, Craig Bellamy is a player who | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
demands to be watched. But in a weeks time, his appearances will | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
only be for club and not for country. The Cardiff City striker | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
has decided it is time to retire from the national squad at the age | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
of 34. I have to do what is best for the national team as well and this | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
group of players are the future. The next qualifier, I am not going to | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
see it. For this group of players will have a better opportunity for | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
qualifying if I cut myself short. He made his debut for Wales as a | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
teenager in 1998, coming on as a sub against Jamaica. It was the start of | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
something special. In his 15 years in the national team, he has played | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
76 time, putting himself third on the all-time list. He has also | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
scored 19 goals. Only four other players have scored more. And there | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
is no doubt about his signature moment. His goal to beat Italy in | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
2002 will long be remembered as one of the great moments in Welsh | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
sporting history. But that team still did not qualify for the | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
European Championships. Playing for Great Britain in last year 's | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Olympics was the closest he came to featuring in a major tournament. His | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
last match for Wales in Wales will be on Friday against Macedonia. If | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
he avoids picking up a yellow card, the final farewell will come in | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Belgium on Tuesday. His team-mates expect he will demand the best from | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
himself and then write to the end. There are a lot of people in this | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
squad myself included that if he does finish can hold our hands up | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
and say he has helped us improve because you listen to the way he | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
talks at the way he conducts himself around the hotel and everything like | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
that, he is unbelievable. Fans of Cardiff City will be hoping he can | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
continue to play for them for a little while yet. Its contract runs | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
out at the end of the season and he has hinted he is considering other | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
options. Whatever he decides, this is now his last week as an | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
international player. Wales has not had many better. The MMR jab has | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
been offered to pupils at a Neath Port Talbot school which has seen a | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
new case of measles. It's after tests confirmed a student at Cwmtawe | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
School has caught the virus. Four other people are suspected of having | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
contracted measles. Three months ago Wales' worst ever measles outbreak | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
was declared officially over. We have had a very positive response | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
from the community. We have informed parents via social media and the | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
school website and also through letters and those who we knew had | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
not been vaccinated have been sent an individual letter and the uptake | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
has been very positive today. The UK Government will look at how the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
DVLA, which has its headquarters in Swansea, can save money and offer | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
better services in a three month review. They'll look at how to | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
increase its online services, as well as improving its website. The | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
PCS Union says it's worried it'll lead to cutbacks and job losses A | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
lollipop lady from the Vale of Glamorgan, who stepped in front a | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
car to protect a group of children, has been given an outstanding | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
bravery prize at the Pride of Britain awards. Karin Williams took | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
the full impact of the crash outside Rhoose Primary School, badly | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
injuring her legs, elbow and shoulder. What do you really know | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
about people's past when it comes to a new relationship? A scheme which | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
can tell you about a partner's violent past should be rolled out | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
across Wales. That's the view of a leading domestic abuse charity. The | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
process, often known as Clare's law has been tried out in the Gwent | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Police force for the past 15 months. Paul Heaney reports. With my first | :22:09. | :22:21. | |
partner, it was mostly violence and he did take me can -- take control | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
and could be from everybody. He wanted to punch me in a shoe shop | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
because they could see my ankles when I was training shoes on. | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
Michelle says she would have benefited from knowing about her | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
ex-partner 's violent past and so with others in similar situations is | :22:40. | :22:51. | |
-- circumstances. You should still have the option. When Clare Wood | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
from Manchester was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2009, she did not | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
know about his history of violence. Her family campaign for what is | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
known as Clare's law which can lead people know about an individual 's | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
abusive past. In Gwent, 66 people ask for information, 13 disclosures | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
were made. We do not take them lightly. There has to be | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
proportionate law to protect those people and children as well. We do | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
inform perpetrators of domestic abuse at the point that they come | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
into the unit that they could potentially have their details given | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
to a future partner. Some want other areas to benefit too. There should | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
be clarity around the process and accountability. That is helpful and | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
it is something we would like to see rolled out. The Home Office will now | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
look at this scheme to see if it has been a success and whether to roll | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
it out across the country. Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale has been | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
voted the Football Association of Wales' Player of the Year for the | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
second time in three years. The 24-year-old has enjoyed an | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
impressive year, which culminated in his world record £85 million | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
transfer. Meanwhile Arsenal star Aaron Ramsey has been named the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
Premier League's player of the month for September. | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
Let's return to our main story. The spending plans for next year. It has | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
been called the toughest budget since devolution. Let's talk to Nick | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Servini in Cardiff Bay for us tonight. Beyond the politics and the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
economic score what is it me on the ground? Well, I think the | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
calculation will be that if you are waiting for some kind of health | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
service, then you could benefit from today's announcement. On the flip | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
side, if you are a regular user of a council museum or a Council library, | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
the kind of local authority service at will come under severe pressure | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
as a result of the cuts in the coming years, then you may suffer as | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
a result of it. The Welsh Government do not want to see this as an either | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
or situation but frankly, other people will frame it in that light. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Local authorities say it has been a difficult couple of years in Wales | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
but the reality years compared to councils in England, they have not | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
gone through the same level of cuts. And then on the NHS, by any measure, | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
it has been a desperately difficult year for the health service in | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
Wales. Funding has not kept pace with inflation. The Welsh Government | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
is saying they are responding to need. Critics say they will be | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
backtracking and they should have done this a number of years ago. | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Thank you very much. Time now for the weather forecast with Behnaz. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
The numbers are dropping and the weather is set to bid much colder | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
over the next couple of days. There is a risk of Frost as well. These | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
are the impressive temperatures from today. Look at the drop by the time | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
we get to Thursday. Nine Celsius. You will certainly need your extra | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
layers tomorrow night and into the end of the week. This evening, a | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
fairly quiet night. The odd spot of light rain. But still mild. | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
Temperatures remaining in double figures for most of us. In the | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
countryside, it could get down to eight Celsius. Another cold front | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
pushing southwards tomorrow. A little bit more cloud and rain. But | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
behind that cold front is when we will feel the cold air from the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
North. First thing tomorrow morning, a cloudy start with the wind getting | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
going from the North West. Taking the temperature -- taking the edge | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
off the temperatures. Look at the dropping temperatures. Around the | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
average for the time of year, which is around 13 Celsius. Tomorrow | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
night, we will start to see the cold, clear skies, a touch of frost | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
forming in clear areas -- southern areas. Overnight and bridges getting | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
down to around five Celsius. That will give us a cold start to | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
Thursday morning. But at least it is dry and bright. As long as you wear | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
an extra layer, it will be all right. The chief executive of the | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
Welsh local government Association has told this programme he suspects | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
council tax bills will go up as a result of the Welsh local government | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
-- Welsh Government strath budget. Spending on local government has | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
been cut to just over £4.5 billion. £570 million more will be spent on | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
the Welsh NHS over the next three years. We will have an update for | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
you at 8pm. Thank you for watching. From all of us on the programme, | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
good evening. | :27:40. | :27:43. |