A user-friendly guide, ahead of the Welsh government setting out its budget plans for the next year.
But Mark Drakeford and his ministers do not have a free hand. Protecting people, services and businesses from Covid will be a priority and, as things stand, emergency pandemic funding is due to end next year.
Not since 2010 has there been an opportunity such as this to spend on all sorts of public services, not just the NHS, say experts at Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre. The core budget is growing, but emergency payments to cope with Covid are running out. The costs of the pandemic are still here however, and it is a pretty safe bet that Mr Drakeford's successor will be able to say the same thing when he or she takes over.
However there are no guarantees about how much more Covid funding, if any, will be available beyond this financial year. As a result, this department gets the biggest share by far of the government's capital budget. That is the money that pays for buildings, roads and hospital equipment - stuff, not salaries.
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