 A budget is a plan for using money. The Welsh Government decides how to spend money in Wales. This money comes from taxes from people living and working in Wales and from businesses. Taxes are the money that everyone pays towards the important things that make society work. When you have a job earning money, you pay some of that money back to the Government as tax. Money also comes to Wales from the UK Government. Our Finance Minister decides after listening and speaking to many people how the Welsh Government will spend and raise money through taxes by publishing a budget. The Welsh Government has more than 20 billion to spend between the 1st of April 2022 and the 31st of March 2023. For example, to build new schools and hospitals, to pay for nurses and doctors, to develop new affordable housing. The Welsh Government decides how much money is spent in this budget on important things which make a big difference to all of our lives.