Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 2,
Senedd
Meeting date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Meeting time: 09.18 - 12.29
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13748
Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Mark Isherwood MS (Chair)
Natasha Asghar MS
Mike Hedges MS
Adam Price MS
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Witnesses:
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Dr Andrew Goodall, Welsh Government
Tim Moss, Welsh Government
Gawain Evans, Welsh Government
Dominic Houlihan, Welsh Government
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Audit Wales:
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Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales
Richard Harries
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Committee Staff:
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Fay Bowen (Clerk)
Owain Davies (Second Clerk)
Joanne McCarthy (Researcher)
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This meeting will be broadcast live
on www.senedd.tv
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(Private pre-meeting)
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
1.1
The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Public Accounts
and Public Administration Committee.
1.2
Apologies were received from Rhiannon Passmore MS.
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2
Papers to note
2.1 The Papers were noted.
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2.1
Letter from the Director General of the
Climate Change and Rural Affairs Group in response to the
Committee's report on Town Centre Regeneration
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2.2
Letter from the Chief Executive and Chair
of Digital Health and Care Wales: an update following the
Committee's joint scrutiny of DHCW's report with the Health and
Social Care Committee
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2.3
Letter from the Welsh Government
following the Committee's evidence session on Covering Teachers'
Absence
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2.4
Letter from the Welsh Government:
response to PAPAC's letter dated 26 February 2024 regarding public
appointments data collection and specifically data on Welsh
language ability and addresses of applicants and
appointees
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3
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to
resolve to exclude the public from Items 4, 7 and 8 of today's
meeting
3.1
The motion was agreed.
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4
Paper to Note (PRIVATE): Letter from the
Permanent Secretary on the partial retirement of the Director of
Propriety and Ethics
4.1 The paper was noted.
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5
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of the Welsh
Government's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 (Part
1)
5.1 The Members questioned the witnesses as
part of the Committee’s scrutiny of the Welsh Government's
Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23.
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(Break)
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6
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of the Welsh
Government's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 (Part
2)
6.1 The Members questioned the witnesses as
part of the Committee’s scrutiny of the Welsh Government's
Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23.
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7
Consideration of evidence: Scrutiny of
the Welsh Government's Annual Report and Accounts
2022-23
7.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
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8
Forward Work Programme
8.1 The Committee agreed the Forward Work
Programme for the summer 2024 term.
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